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  • Survey on how software engineers search for architectural information

    From =?UTF-8?B?TXVzZW5nYSBKROacqOajrg==?@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 27 19:44:23 2021
    Hello Everyone ,
    I would like to ask for your support. I am a PhD student working on software architecture. I am currently exploring how developers search for architectural information in software development. I conduct a survey to investigate how architectural
    information is searched, how the usefulness of retrieved architectural information is assessed, etc., to support development tasks, and the challenges developers face. This questionnaire will take about 5-10 minutes. All the responses will be anonymized
    and we will not share your personal information with anyone else. The results of the survey will be shared with all the participants via the email addresses recorded. To do this, we need YOUR opinion! The survey is at: https://tinyurl.com/searchai
    Thank you for your participation!
    Kind regards,
    Musenga Jean de Dieu
    Wuhan University

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  • From Hope Rouselle@21:1/5 to mjados@gmail.com on Wed Sep 29 10:05:32 2021
    Musenga JD木森 <mjados@gmail.com> writes:

    Hello Everyone ,
    I would like to ask for your support. I am a PhD student working on
    software architecture. I am currently exploring how developers search
    for architectural information in software development. I conduct a
    survey to investigate how architectural information is searched, how
    the usefulness of retrieved architectural information is assessed,
    etc., to support development tasks, and the challenges developers
    face. This questionnaire will take about 5-10 minutes. All the
    responses will be anonymized and we will not share your personal
    information with anyone else. The results of the survey will be shared
    with all the participants via the email addresses recorded. To do
    this, we need YOUR opinion! The survey is at:
    https://tinyurl.com/searchai
    Thank you for your participation!

    You don't explain what is architectural information. What is that?

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  • From Jeff Barnett@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 29 10:36:06 2021
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  • From Hope Rouselle@21:1/5 to Jeff Barnett on Fri Oct 1 21:31:17 2021
    Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> writes:

    [...]

    Thank you for your participation!
    You don't explain what is architectural information. What is that?

    I took the survey. At the end I noted the same problem and stated
    something to the effect that "I bet our definitions of architecture
    are not the same." That conclusion was drawn from the type of
    questions asked. I also opined that this wasn't, in my mind, a very
    good dissertation topic.

    Such is life.

    At my university this semester, a group of teachers asked students in
    the introductory programming course to fill out a form reporting their
    opinions on the course. To fill out the form, you had to be logged in
    with your account and the form captured your account. The turn out was
    very low, of course.

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  • From Madhu@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 2 21:21:43 2021
    * Jeff Barnett <sj24lq$v8v$1@dont-email.me> :
    Wrote on Wed, 29 Sep 2021 10:36:06 -0600:
    On 9/29/2021 7:05 AM, Hope Rouselle wrote:
    Musenga <mjados@gmail.com> writes:

    Hello Everyone ,
    I would like to ask for your support. I am a PhD student working on
    software architecture. I am currently exploring how developers search
    for architectural information in software development. I conduct a
    survey to investigate how architectural information is searched, how
    the usefulness of retrieved architectural information is assessed,
    etc., to support development tasks, and the challenges developers
    face. This questionnaire will take about 5-10 minutes. All the
    responses will be anonymized and we will not share your personal
    information with anyone else. The results of the survey will be shared
    with all the participants via the email addresses recorded. To do
    this, we need YOUR opinion! The survey is at:
    https://tinyurl.com/searchai
    Thank you for your participation!
    You don't explain what is architectural information. What is that?

    I took the survey. At the end I noted the same problem and stated
    something to the effect that "I bet our definitions of architecture
    are not the same." That conclusion was drawn from the type of
    questions asked. I also opined that this wasn't, in my mind, a very
    good dissertation topic.

    I didn't get past the first page beyond the google docs javascript, and
    didn't see the questions.

    But i think the loosest definition for "software architecture" would
    work - (displayed by google on its search results page - without further attribution)

    "Software architecture exposes the structure of a system while hiding
    the implementation details. Architecture also focuses on how the
    elements and components within a system interact with one
    other. Software design delves deeper into the implementation details of
    the system."

    Architectural information is information about the software
    archictecture - without having to grok all the implementation code.

    I think it is a relevant topic to choose if the candidate can get at
    some info. Huge open source projects from the big name vendors, it is
    pretty hard to get at the structure (at least outside of the employed
    software teams) I think the architectural information is often not
    public.

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  • From Kaz Kylheku@21:1/5 to Hope Rouselle on Sat Oct 2 17:00:26 2021
    On 2021-10-02, Hope Rouselle <hrouselle@jevedi.com> wrote:
    Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> writes:

    [...]

    Thank you for your participation!
    You don't explain what is architectural information. What is that?

    I took the survey. At the end I noted the same problem and stated
    something to the effect that "I bet our definitions of architecture
    are not the same." That conclusion was drawn from the type of
    questions asked. I also opined that this wasn't, in my mind, a very
    good dissertation topic.

    Such is life.

    At my university this semester, a group of teachers asked students in
    the introductory programming course to fill out a form reporting their opinions on the course. To fill out the form, you had to be logged in
    with your account and the form captured your account. The turn out was
    very low, of course.

    Did that group of teachers never take a stats course? Even with anonymity,
    you get biased information, never mind without it.

    I hope for their sake that they are not that stupid; that it is
    something that came down from higher up in the administration that they begrudgingly implemented.

    --
    TXR Programming Language: http://nongnu.org/txr
    Cygnal: Cygwin Native Application Library: http://kylheku.com/cygnal

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  • From Madhu@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 3 06:41:36 2021
    * Kaz Kylheku <20211002095803.753@kylheku.com> :
    Wrote on Sat, 2 Oct 2021 17:00:26 -0000 (UTC):

    Did that group of teachers never take a stats course? Even with anonymity, you get biased information, never mind without it.

    I hope for their sake that they are not that stupid; that it is
    something that came down from higher up in the administration that they begrudgingly implemented.

    Bogus consolation. If they are enslaved like this to higher
    administration they are already stupid, beyond stupid.

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  • From Hope Rouselle@21:1/5 to Kaz Kylheku on Mon Oct 4 10:56:09 2021
    Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> writes:

    On 2021-10-02, Hope Rouselle <hrouselle@jevedi.com> wrote:
    Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> writes:

    [...]

    Thank you for your participation!
    You don't explain what is architectural information. What is that?

    I took the survey. At the end I noted the same problem and stated
    something to the effect that "I bet our definitions of architecture
    are not the same." That conclusion was drawn from the type of
    questions asked. I also opined that this wasn't, in my mind, a very
    good dissertation topic.

    Such is life.

    At my university this semester, a group of teachers asked students in
    the introductory programming course to fill out a form reporting their
    opinions on the course. To fill out the form, you had to be logged in
    with your account and the form captured your account. The turn out was
    very low, of course.

    Did that group of teachers never take a stats course? Even with
    anonymity, you get biased information, never mind without it.

    That makes sense.

    The sad answer is that all of them must have taken a stats course.

    I hope for their sake that they are not that stupid; that it is
    something that came down from higher up in the administration that they begrudgingly implemented.

    I'd feel better that way --- momentarily.

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  • From Hope Rouselle@21:1/5 to Madhu on Mon Oct 4 11:05:16 2021
    Madhu <enometh@meer.net> writes:

    * Kaz Kylheku <20211002095803.753@kylheku.com> :
    Wrote on Sat, 2 Oct 2021 17:00:26 -0000 (UTC):

    Did that group of teachers never take a stats course? Even with anonymity, >> you get biased information, never mind without it.

    I hope for their sake that they are not that stupid; that it is
    something that came down from higher up in the administration that they
    begrudgingly implemented.

    Bogus consolation. If they are enslaved like this to higher
    administration they are already stupid, beyond stupid.

    Well observed.

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