Disillusionment and doubt undermine Kyoto's birthday bash

Bash cookbook - solutions and examples for bash users

The book consists of a great many relatively short problem/task-plus-solution discussions (with related items loosely gathered into chapters). One of the strengths of the book is that these examples are placed in realistic computing contexts, so, e.g., determining the amount of time between two dates is considered with respect to NTP rather than as a coding exercise in isolation. The most exten...

Faith, Hope and Doubt

Gamification and the Trough of Disillusionment

Consulting agencies predict a drop in the visibility of gamification as studies report more and more negative results. We re-evaluate studies with positive results from a recent literature review with regards to the effects of gamification reported therein. We find that most reviewed studies do not actually report net-positive results and discuss reasons as to why gamification seemingly fails t...

Defect Bash - Literature Review

Defect bash is a co-located testing session performed by a group of people. We performed a systematic review of the academic and grey literature, i.e. informally published writings, of the defect bash. Altogether, we found 44 items (17 academic and 27 grey literature sources) that were identified useful for the review. Based on the review the definition of defect bash is presented, benefits and...

A Short Bash Tutorial