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My co-chair of the 2010 DBTEST Workshop, Shivnath Babu of Duke University, recently uploaded the majority of the presentations made at the Workshop, including Phyllis Frankl‘s keynote presentation entitled “Somebody Put a Database in My Software Testing Problem” and the short presentations given by each of the panelists, who included Ken Salem of the University [...]

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Monday’s DBTEST 2010 Workshop at the 2010 ACM SIGMODconference in Indianapolis concluded with an interesting panel discussion that included keynote speaker Phyllis Frankl (Polytechnic Institute of NYU), Leo Giakoumakis (Microsoft), Harumi Kuno (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories), Ken Salem (University of Waterloo) and Florian Waas (Greenplum). Each panelist discussed what they thought the “Grand Challenges” of database and [...]

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Shivnath Babu of Duke University and I have now finalized the program for the 2010 DBTEST Workshop. The Workshop, which is co-located with the 2010 ACM SIGMOD conference in Indianapolis, will be held on Monday 7 June 2010 in the Regency F ballroom at the Hyatt Regency hotel. Included in this year’s Workshop is a [...]

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Third International Workshop on Testing Database Systems (DBTest 2010) June 7, 2010, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA In conjunction with the 2010 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference Workshop Overview New usage patterns, evolving hardware trends, and increased competition drive continuous innovation and expansion of data-processing systems. Commercial database vendors are adding new features related to ease of management, semistructured [...]

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Based on feedback from authors, Shivnath Babu and I would like to announce that we are extending the paper submission deadline for the forthcoming DBTEST 2010 Workshop, which will be co-located with the 2010 ACM SIGMOD Conference in Indianapolis on Monday, June 7. You can find the call for papers here or on the DBTEST [...]

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Third International Workshop on Testing Database Systems (DBTest 2010) June 7, 2010, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA In conjunction with the 2010 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference Workshop Overview New usage patterns, evolving hardware trends, and increased competition drive continuous innovation and expansion of data-processing systems. Commercial database vendors are adding new features related to ease of management, semistructured [...]

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This past Friday we received word from Christian S. Jensen, the Workshops chair of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD Conference, that our workshop proposal for the 3rd International Workshop on Testing Database Systems had been approved. Building on the two previously-held workshops in Vancouver in 2008 and in Providence in 2009, this third Workshop will continue [...]

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Earlier this month I posted an article that (very) briefly summarized two papers from the 2008 and 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering that studied causation between software development project characteristics and defect rates. In particular, the more recent [1] CACM paper describes the defect rate in Windows Vista, and the statistics for that project [...]

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A paper [1] in this month’s edition of Communcations of the ACM caught my attention this week. As a manager of a research and development team, I’m always on the lookout for research pertaining to software development practices and software quality. The paper, entitled Does Distributed Development Affect Software Quality? An Empirical Case Study of [...]

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