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Derek M Jones
derek at knosof.co.uk
Tue Feb 1 13:34:49 CET 2022
Peter,
> A less eccentric view would be that the papers on it which appear in the most highly regarded journals in software
> engineering are likely to give you such techniques.
The appeal to authority argument.
There are experimental data driven fields that publish
work that contains great value.
The non-experimentally driven fields hang onto the
coat tails of the reputable fields by having the
quake doctors all publishing in a few journals and all
professing a high regard for each other work (at least
in public).
https://shape-of-code.com/2021/01/17/software-effort-estimation-is-mostly-fake-research/
>> It's opinions all the way down.
> Granted that opinions abound concerning software statistical evaluation, it does not follow that opinions are all there
> are.
Pointers to the data underpinning these opinions welcome.
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Derek M. Jones Evidence-based software engineering
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