Rahul GopinathSIGSOFT

The third issue of the 48th volume of Software Engineering Notes (SEN) is out.

dl.acm.org/toc/sigsoft/2023/48

This issue keeps posting on our established columns, like Peter Neumann’s Risks to the Public, Alex Groce’s Passages, and Bob Schaefer’s Academic Freedom and International Students, along with additional contributions.

SEN is edited by Jacopo Soldani

Rahul Gopinath

I feel like I am missing something very basic in Mac Ventura. Why am I unable to sort my files alphabetically? I have tried every option there is as suggested by google and stackoverflow answers, and I certainly am not using groups. #macos #userhostile

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Rahul Gopinath

The fediverse observer (https://fediverse.observer/map) is a map of all fediverse instances in the world.

https://fediverse.observer/map
Rahul Gopinath

I really wish #Zotero, and several other programs will just let me type in #markdown, and not automatically format the text. I do not want the particular changes in font and color with auto-formating that these programs provide, and I am really happy with plaintext and unadorned markdown. To make matters worse, when I copy these formatted text elsewhere, the original markdown is completely stripped.

Rahul GopinathAndreas Zeller

How to create the nastiest test inputs ever: My ten-minute #NeverWorkInTheory talk on automated software testing is now available at youtube.com/watch?v=GCy8bYJ_G0

Rahul GopinathDr. Théo Zimmermann 🏳️‍🌈

We are hiring an associate professor (tenured) in #SoftwareEngineering (any subdomain) in our team (ACES) at @TelecomParis. Come join us! Application deadline: September 4, 2023. (Contact me for any question.) institutminestelecom.recruitee

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Why does this have to be so user-hostile?  The default paste when copying formatted text should be to match the destination formatting. Not the source formatting, and paste is one of the most important functionalities in modern word processing. I wish they would provide at least some option to change these short cuts #microsoft #msword #macos #userhostile

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More visitors at University of Sydney.  Tural Mammadov and Jurgen Cito (1 & 3) with me, Xi Wu and Huaming Chen (2, 4 & 5). #USyd #USydSE

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August Shi (https://sites.utexas.edu/august/) talking about Flaky Tests at University of Sydney. #USyd #USydSE

Rahul GopinathAndreas Zeller

How do you fuzz code that cannot be instrumented, e.g. on an embedded system? It turns out you can use GDB for that!

👉 Check out our upcoming “GDBFuzz” @issta_conf paper at
publications.cispa.saarland/39

👉 GDBFuzz is available as open source at github.com/boschresearch/gdbfu