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Alternative Definition of Theoretical Saturation in Qualitative Research
Theoretical Saturation The mental state of a researcher wanting to finish up the work and go home for the holidays.
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Is Elsevier Getting Desperate?
I received five somewhat random review requests this morning, from the same journal, suggesting to me that the editor finds it hard to acquire reviewers for submissions. I pity the editor and feel bad for them (but they really should stop working for Elsevier). In any case, I five times essentially provided the same response,…
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How my Ph.D. Students Work With Supporting Students (Hint: Not Scrum)
As mentioned in a previous blog post, my Ph.D. students are often experienced software developers who take on the role of a chief programmer in the development of the software system supporting their research. In this work, at any point in time, each of my Ph.D. students is typically supported by 2-7 Bachelor and Master…
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Chief Programmer Teams Alive And Well in Academia
According to Wikipedia, “a chief programmer team is a programming team organized in a star around a “chief” role, granted to the software engineer who understands the system’s intentions the best. Other team members get supporting roles.” Amusingly, this set-up is alive and well in academia, and for good reason. At least my research group…
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What’s better: Submit to ICSE or TSE? (Conference or Journal?)
When planning a publication strategy for a dissertation, invariably the question comes up where to submit your papers. Ph.D. students naturally are biased towards conferences, because if a paper gets accepted to a conference they get to travel to a (usually) nice place. I nip this bias in the bud right away: For a journal…
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What is it About the WTFPL That Students Always Choose it as The Example?