Cognitive Bias in Software Engineering

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 57-63

  Stacy, Webb ^a   Macmillan, Jean ^b  

^a Centerline Software Inc ^*  (United States)

^b BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE BIAS; HUMAN DEDUCTIVE REASONING; HYPOTHESES; MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS;

AVAILABILITY; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (SYMBOLS); COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; ERRORS; GRAPH THEORY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBABILITY; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; TESTING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0029326767     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/203241.203256     Document Type: Article

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