Online Survey for Online software engineering study Mungkin mo ikut bantu2... Ifat A. Fatchi ----------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------- I would like to ask for your help. I'm a student at the Computer Science department of the Oregon Graduate Institute. I have been following the developments in the Open Source community for about 4 years and I've been fascinated with the way Open Source movement works. I've been doing research in empirical software engineering and I was wondering if the same principle that drives the Open Software movement can work in other areas. The main difficulty in empirical software engineering studies is the great variability in people's performance (sometimes as much as 25:1), which causes a lot of "noise" in analysis. Therefore studies with 30 or 40 participants are often just not powerful enough to get credible results. This gave me the idea of an "Open software engineering study". Using the same principle utilized by the Open Source software, such studies could leverage contributions of multiple participants spread all over the world to overcome the "noise" problem and help us better understand the effectiveness of different software engineering methods and techniques. All the participants would have to do is connect to a central web server and spend a little time performing some simple software engineering tasks online. The large number of participants would allow us to filter out the "noise" and make a justified conclusion about which techniques work better under which circumstances. This kind of study has never been attempted before and some of the professors on my committee are not convinced that such studies would be able to attract enough volunteers to make them worthwhile. This is where I need your help. I have put together a survey to find out if there are enough people in the world who would like to make a contribution to the field by participating in an internet-based software engineering study. If you are interested in participating (or even if you are not), please take 10 minutes out of your busy schedule to take the survey. The results of this survey should either convince my committee that online studies might work, or convince me that I'm wasting my time working on them. All people who take the survey will be entered in a drawing for prizes. To take the survey, point your web browsers to http://software-engineering.cse.ogi.edu/surv/driver.cgi?R=PG If you have any questions or comments please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call (503)748-7385. If you know someone who might be interested in participating, please pass this information to them! Thank you for your time, Alex Kotov Pacific Software Research Center Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology * Gunadarma Mailing List ----------------------------------------------- * Archives : http://milis-archives.gunadarma.ac.id * Berhenti : Kirim Email kosong ke [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]