A Short History of Experimental Software Engineering
This is a short summary of how we have progressed in software engineering.
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- Software engineering was mostly qualitative.
- My advisor told me "software engineers build tools".
- Software engineers used their tools to run experiments.
- Software engineers used statistical analysis on the data they gathered
from experimenting with their tools.
- Software engineers ran experiments on real software.
- Software engineers work on problems that industry cares about.