> Engineering is also not normally scientific investigation People often confuse scientific investigation with logical reasoning. Software Engineers do the lat

> Engineering is also not normally scientific investigation People often confuse scientific investigation with logical reasoning. Software Engineers do the latter more often than the former, but they do perform the former. We literally have environments called "Test" and verifications called "tests". I find it hard to believe there's no relation. > A hypothesis is not something to be confirmed, it is something to be disproven. That is incorrect. The definition is available. Hypothesis: a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation. > That's an engineering discussion Yes and those discussions result in "hypotheses". > Other disciplines have centuries of accumulated knowledge and modeling to fall back on. While there are few software development papers, there is some progress. Mostly we each rely on our own experiences and the experiences of others (reading a bunch helps).