A Tale from the Trenches: Cognitive Biases and Software Development

Cognitive biases are hard-wired behaviors that influence developer actions and can set them on an incorrect course of action, necessitating backtracking. While researchers have found that cognitive biases occur in development tasks in controlled lab studies, we still don't know how these biases...

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Published in:	2020 IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) pp. 654 - 665
Main Authors:	Chattopadhyay, Souti, Nelson, Nicholas, Au, Audrey, Morales, Natalia, Sanchez, Christopher, Pandita, Rahul, Sarma, Anita
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	ACM 01.10.2020
Subjects:	cognitive bias Employment field study Interviews Problem-solving Software software development Software engineering Task analysis
ISSN:	1558-1225
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