Context Confirmation bias is a person's tendency to look for evidence that strengthens
his/her prior beliefs rather than refutes them. Manifestation of confirmation bias in software …

In contemporary code review, the comments put by reviewers on a specific code change are
immediately visible to the other reviewers involved. Could this visibility prime new reviewers' …

Despite increasingly sophisticated programming languages, software developer training,
testing tools, integrated development environments and project management techniques …

Seit einigen Jahren gibt es Qualitätsmanagement-und Qualitätssicherungsnormen für die
Entwicklung, Lieferung und Wartung von Software (z. B. DIN ISO 9000-3) und ein …

Background: The existing literature in software engineering reports adverse effects of
confirmation bias on software testing. Confirmation bias among software testers leads to …

Background: Test driven development, as a side-effect of developing software, will produce
a set of accompanied test cases which can protect implemented features during code …

Test-driven development is an essential part of Extreme Programming approach with the
preference of being followed in other Agile methods as well. For several years, researchers …

Safety-critical systems are systems that cannot be allowed to fail. Such systems, if they fail,
may cause economic damage or even loss of life. As a result, bug-fixes and patches are …

Background: Software testers manifest confirmation bias (the cognitive tendency) when they
design relatively more specification consistent test cases than specification inconsistent test …

In our recent academic experiments, an existence of positive test bias, that is lack of
negative test cases, was identified when a test driven development approach was used. At …