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Quote: software tools and processes often have 10x less influence than project size, developer capability and experience
Topic:
programmer productivity
Topic:
experimental results on programming
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Variability in project size and developer capability and … [ref]. The effects of tools and process are often smaller by … When studying tool effects … one chooses developers who make similar numbers of … , it is important to select developers who … version-history data available, these tasks are often easy: … [p. 173] We used relatively large samples of MR's … [modification requests] … [6,985 MR's over 72 months by 18 developers when comparing subsystems, 3,438 MR's over 72 months by 9 developers when analyzing tool benefits] Google-1 Google-2
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Quote: normalize for developer differences by comparing developers with similar number of changes, whether or not they use a software tool or process; e.g., select from thousands of modification request records
Topic: programmer productivity (57 items)
Topic: experimental results on programming (75 items)