Evidence-based Software Engineering

Livro digital

Título:
Evidence-based Software Engineering

Autor:
Derek M. Jones

Categoria:
Tecnologia > Backend

Doador:
Raffaello D. N.

Sinopse:
Software engineering is full of strongly held opinions backed by almost no data. Replication studies consistently show that widely accepted practices rest on shakier foundations than the community assumes, yet few practitioners know where to find the evidence that does exist. Derek Jones surveys what empirical research has actually demonstrated about how developers think, learn, and make decisions. Early chapters examine the cognitive machinery—attention, memory systems, expertise development, reasoning biases—that shapes every line of code written. Later sections connect these findings to real-world trade-offs: investment decisions under uncertainty, estimating event likelihood, the measurable impact of personality on developer performance, and why perfection is rarely cost-effective. Built on publicly available datasets and released under a Creative Commons license, the work treats software engineering as a human activity subject to measurement, not a craft immune to scrutiny. Every claim is anchored to a specific study, making it equally valuable for practitioners who want to stop guessing and researchers who want to know where the gaps are.