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Software Engineering's Greatest Hits

Greg Wilson · talk · Watch on YouTube

Software practice, open source & careersTesting, debugging & developer tools

What it is

Greg Wilson surveys what empirical research actually shows about software development, why we believe it, and how to share that knowledge more widely. It covers evidence on practices such as TDD and design patterns.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN people recommend it as an evidence-based counterweight to opinion in software engineering debates.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “I highly recommend watching Greg Wilson's Software Engineering's Greatest Hits[1].”

    Studies on TDD and other practices, such as short increments

    nestorD, 2022-08 · Strong recommendation · in “I have complicated feelings about TDD”

  2. “would make a good HN submission in its own right.”

    Worth its own HN submission as the source of the info

    dang, 2021-07 · Recommendation · in “Software engineering research is a train wreck”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: empirical studies, tdd, evidence-based, greg wilson, best practices

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