Call for Code: Developers tackle natural disasters with software

Collaborative Security Code-Review Towards Aiding Developers Ensure Software-Security

Humans make mistakes, and software programmers are no exception. Software vulnerabilities are discovered everyday; close to 8,000 vulnerabilities were reported in 2014, and almost 2,500 were reported in the first four months of 2015 [9]. Microsoft Security Response Centre defines software vulnerabilities as a security exposure that results from a product weakness that the product developer did ...

Supplying Collaborative Source-code Retrieval Tools to Software Developers

Collaborative information retrieval (CIR) and search-driven software development (SDD) are both new emerging research fields; the first one was born in response to the problem of satisfying shared information needs of groups of users that collaborate explicitly, and the second to explore source-code retrieval concept as an essential activity during software development process. Taking advantage...

Basic Science for Software Developers

In many cases technological properties are expressed in terms of numerical parameters and the parameter values appear in product descriptions. This makes these limitations concrete and meaningful to pragmatic developers. It is the responsibility of engineering educators to make sure that our students understand the technological properties, know how to express them, know how to determine them f...

Natural Disasters

Optimisation Modelling for Software Developers

Software developers are an ideal channel for the distribution of Constraint Programming (CP) technology. Unfortunately, including even basic optimisation functionality in an application currently requires the use of an entirely separate paradigm with which most software developers are not familiar. We suggest an alternative interface to CP designed to overcome this barrier, and describe a proto...