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hwayne on July 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cold Showers: For when people get too hyped up abo...

Laurent Bossavit tears the Boehm paper apart in his book "Leprechauns of Software Engineering"[1]. It's a good read for anyone interested in the empirical side of software research.

[1]: https://leanpub.com/leprechauns

the_af on July 24, 2020 [–]

Thanks! I think it might have been an extract from Bossavit's book what I'm struggling to remember now. The title definitely rings a bell.

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