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Greg Wilson is more positive. Though he does agree that nobody cares. https://third-bit.com/2021/07/17/software-engineerings-greatest-hits/ https://third-bit.c

• dang 5y ago
  That (or more likely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrVtA-ue-x0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrVtA-ue-x0 since that's where the info is) would make a good HN submission in its own right. Probably best to wait a few days to let the hivemind caches clear (followup/copycat posts aren't great: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=follow-up%20by%3Adang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). If you submit it, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com so we can put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.
  • hwayne 5y ago
    This is a cool system!
• jdlshore 5y ago
  I'm skeptical of Wilson's reporting. One of his quoted studies looked interesting (slide 20, Fucci 2016, "An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Development Using a Multi-site Blind Analysis Approach"), so I looked it up. Wilson describes that study as involving 39 professionals on real projects. But when I looked at the actual study [1], it involved 21 graduate students working on two toy problems, the Bowling Game kata and "Mars Rover API." This is a disappointing misrepresentation of the study. A charitable interpretation is that he was referring to a different study, and accidentally put the wrong reference on that slide. Or maybe the actual talk explains the difference. I'm not sure—I didn't look deeper. [1] http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~csstmms/FucciEtAl_ESEM2016.pdf http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~csstmms/FucciEtAl_ESEM2016.pdf