{"title":"Are You Trapped in the Configuration Abyss? An Interview With Prof. Sven Apel","authors":"Brittany Johnson, Tim Menzies","doi":"10.1109/ms.2024.3383658","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In between what we could do and what we should do lies a configuration abyss, full of poor choices, where opportunities are missed and many mistakes are made. Prof. Sven Apel knows just how poorly humans can make choices. Accordingly he explores the design and testing of tools that support better choices about software.","PeriodicalId":55018,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Software","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Software","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ms.2024.3383658","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In between what we could do and what we should do lies a configuration abyss, full of poor choices, where opportunities are missed and many mistakes are made. Prof. Sven Apel knows just how poorly humans can make choices. Accordingly he explores the design and testing of tools that support better choices about software.
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IEEE Software delivers reliable, useful, leading-edge software development information to keep engineers and managers abreast of rapid technology change. Its mission is to build the community of leading software practitioners. The authority on translating software theory into practice, this magazine positions itself between pure research and pure practice, transferring ideas, methods, and experiences among researchers and engineers. Peerreviewed articles and columns by seasoned practitioners illuminate all aspects of the industry, including process improvement, project management, development tools, software maintenance, Web applications and opportunities, testing, and usability. The magazine''s readers specify, design, document, test, maintain, purchase, engineer, sell, teach, research, and manage the production of software or systems that include software. IEEE Software welcomes articles describing how software is developed in specific companies, laboratories, and university environments as well as articles describing new tools, current trends, and past projects'' limitations and failures as well as successes. Sample topics include geographically distributed development; software architectures; program and system debugging and testing; the education of software professionals; requirements, design, development, testing, and management methodologies; performance measurement and evaluation; standards; program and system reliability, security, and verification; programming environments; languages and language-related issues; Web-based development; usability; and software-related social and legal issues.