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Wed 24 June - Thu 16 July 2020
Tue 7 Jul 2020 09:10 - 10:00 at Poster Special Room - I301-Posters

Just because software developers say they believe in “X”, that does not necessarily mean that “X” is true. As shown here, there exist numerous beliefs listed in the recent Software Engineering literature which are only supported by small portions of the available data. Hence we ask what is the source of this disconnect between beliefs and evidence?. To answer this question we look for evidence for ten beliefs within 300,000+ changes seen in dozens of open-source projects. Some of those beliefs had strong support across all the projects; specifically, “A commit that involves more added and removed lines is more bug-prone” and “Files with fewer lines contributed by their owners (who contribute most changes) are bug-prone”. Most of the widely-held beliefs studied are only sporadically supported in the data; i.e. large effects can appear in project data and then disappear in subsequent releases. Such sporadic support explains why developers believe things that were relevant to their prior work, but not necessarily their current work. Our conclusion will be that we need to change the nature of the debate with Software Engineering. Specifically, while it is important to report the effects that hold right now, it is also important to report on what effects change over time.

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