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Your comment opened my eyes. Considering the importance of software development in today's world ( and tomorrow's), the fact that those best practices or code m

by bsaul 10y ago

Your comment opened my eyes. Considering the importance of software development in today's world ( and tomorrow's), the fact that those best practices or code management technics are found mostly in blogs, instead of scientific papers with proper experiments, tells a lot.

skrebbel 10y ago
I don't follow. What does it tell?
- sidlls 10y ago
  Have you heard of the term/phrase "bro science" with respect to weight lifting? I'd draw an analogy between them. Clarification: what I mean is there is a lot of ad-hoc stuff in these blogs that may be narrowly true or applicable to a given project or subset of a domain, but generally there is either significant evidence against some of these blogs' contents or the contents themselves have absolutely no formal, rigorous support.
  - skrebbel 10y ago
    I see your point, thanks. But the fact that not a lot of research is done in this field doesn't tell you much about the validity of the non-scientific blogosphere findings, right? Nice analogy btw.
  - coredog64 10y ago
    I switched to Scrum, check out my GAINZ!
falsedan 10y ago
There is a strong field exploring this subject, but it's called 'software verification'. Here's a paper on automated defect detection [0], which is effectively a study on how to write good tests. [0] https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/pubs/mutation-effectiveness-fse2014.pdf https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/pubs/mutation-effect...