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Or perhaps an author fully understands their own work the same way a programmer knows how users will use their programs.

In many cases, isolated testing does not require test doubles. There are alternatives to mocks: as long as the system under test is not manipulating its dependencies, you can get t…

They don't have to be unbounded to be destructive to this estimation method, just large and unknowable.

I'd rather have two simple things than one complex thing. In the codebases I've worked on, a lot of the complexity I see arose from people changing the meaning of existing code so …

That sounds fair.

Again, McConnell isn't disagreeing with Bossavit's claims about the Curtis 1986 citation. He concurs! "I never stated that Curtis 1986 was an 'empirical study.' Curtis 1986 is a br…

I was originally responding to the challenge "aren't you taking Bossavit's claims on trust?" I'm differentiating between Bossavit's claims about the citations from Bossavit's analy…

Sure - I'm pointing to the section titled "A Deeper Dive into the Research Supporting '10x'". I'm accepting one of Bossavit's claims on trust: he says that of McConnell's eight cit…

Steve McConnell himself doesn't dispute Bossavit's claims about the earlier studies (for the most part), he just disagrees about the significance of those claims. See McConnell's r…