Why? Assertion usage is a subject which even amongst very experienced developers will spark an intense discussion. There's really no good way to determine who is right or wrong and how right or wrong. One of the reasonable strategies is to reference...

This is my annual blog post ;-) In collaboration with Laurie Williams from NCSU and Nachi Nagappan from MSR we authored a paper titled "On the Effectiveness of Unit Test Automation at Microsoft". The final result of our work got accepted for International...

Interestingly enough yet another research paper on what I've worked on has been accepted to a software engineering conference. Lucas Layman , Nachi Nagappan , and I will be at ESEM 2008 presenting on 10/10/2008 the results of our work. Here's the summary...

After almost a year of writing code, verifying the results, fixing various review comments, and doing a number of other things we finally published our paper about the relationship between assertions and code quality. Here's the summary: The use of assertions...