I recently hosted an episode of Software Engineering Radio called "Will McGugan on Text-Based User Interfaces"!

Gregory M. Kapfhammer

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from rich.console import Console
console = Console()
console.print(
    ":rocket: Hi! I'm a researcher, teacher, podcaster, and software developer!"
)
🚀 Hi! I'm a researcher, teacher, podcaster, and software developer!

Innovating in technical areas such as software engineering and software testing, I teach courses, conduct research, write papers and a blog, give presentations, create software, and serve organizations. Working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Allegheny College, I am an associate editor for the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, an academic editor for the PeerJ Computer Science journal, a program committee member for conferences like the International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation and the International Conference on Software Engineering, and a reviewer for journals like Transactions on Software Engineering and the Journal of Software Testing, Verification and Reliability. Along with media appearances on podcasts like Stack Overflow and Talk Python, I interview the world’s leading experts on software engineering as a co-host of Software Engineering Radio. You can learn more about me and my work by reading my biography, downloading my curriculum vitae, and subscribing to my mailing list.

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Software Engineering

  • Cellveyor: Easily convey reports from Google Sheets to GitHub

  • Chasten: Configurable linting tool that uses XPath expressions

  • GatorGrade: Python front-end for the GatorGrader assessment tool

  • GatorGrader: Automated assessment for source code and writing

  • SchemaAnalyst: Data generation and mutation analysis for database schemas

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axiixc

Remember: the most important step in debugging a piece of code is to make sure it’s even being run before you start changing it 🫠

Jun 18, 2025
nzakas

It is surprisingly difficult to get an LLM to consistently shorten text within a specified limit. At least 33% of the time the shortened version is too short.

Jun 16, 2025
nzakas

The trouble with Claude 4 in GitHub Copilot continues. It doesn't seem to constrain itself to the initial request and goes off in other directions for way too long. My experiment ends here. 3.7 from now on.

Jun 4, 2025
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