Project Presentation-Based Assessments in Software Engineering Courses
Software engineering education is rapidly evolving, and finding ways to effectively evaluate students' understanding and application of practical skills is critical. Traditional exams often fail assessing students' abilities to apply theoretical know ... read more →
How Progress Ends: A Software Engineering Perspective
I was recently invited to give a guest lecture for the course ASPT 6004: AI in History and Its Social and Environmental Implications through the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) program at Virginia Tech. This int ... read more →
Bridging the Gap Between Research and OSS Communities
Reflections from the 2025 OSS Community Leadership Summit I recently had the chance to attend the Community Leadership Summit at All Things Open 2025, one of the largest tech conferences focused on open-source software (OSS). The summit brings togeth ... read more →
VL/HCC 2025 Overview
We had numerous contributions accepted and presented at the AIEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2025) conference. This post summarizes the workshop and main conference contributions from our research group this yea ... read more →
ESEM 2025 Overview
Our paper "Exploring the Evidence-Based SE Beliefs of Generative AI Tools" was accepted and recently presented at the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2025) Emerging Results and Vision ... read more →
FSE 2025 Preview 2: Workshops
Foundations of Software Engineering was a great opportunity to connect with and learn from software engineering researchers. In addition to the education and tool demo tracks of the conference, we have several contributions to co-located workshops at ... read more →
FSE 2025 Preview
The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) is one of the leading venues for software engineering-related research---targeting researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders. We're excited to share that several of ... read more →
We Hosted a Workshop for Practitioners---No One Came
As part of a recent grant, we were required to host a topical workshop to share ideas and promote collaboration among stakeholders. I decided to design our workshop primarily for software practitioners (individuals who apply software engineering conc ... read more →
Hello World
Welcome to our blog! This is the first post, more will be coming soon 👀... About Us: We are the Code World, No Blanket lab---a software engineering research group in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech 🦃. Our research uses empiri ... read more →