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> "I built a tool and it found this many bugs" doesn't feel like part of the social sciences, but these papers are regularly published in ICSE and FSE. Those
by throwawaygh 5y ago
> "I built a tool and it found this many bugs" doesn't feel like part of the social sciences, but these papers are regularly published in ICSE and FSE.
Those papers have lots of issues, especially cherry-picking and narration of the results' significance.
But the core claim -- "I found N bugs in the following codebases" -- is generally reproducible.