Software development is so complicated that there is always an endless supply of objections to fire at any study at odds with one's beliefs. And that is exactly how all these discussions go. All we're doing is repeating shibboleths.
The most interesting studies would be ones that changed somebody's beliefs. That doesn't happen very often in our field. Does it ever?
Software development is so complicated that there is always an endless supply of objections to fire at any study at odds with one's beliefs. And that is exactly how all these discussions go. All we're doing is repeating shibboleths.
The most interesting studies would be ones that changed somebody's beliefs. That doesn't happen very often in our field. Does it ever?