Magne Jørgensen

Believing is Seeing: Confirmation Bias Studies in Software Engineering

2015

Confirmation bias is the human tendency to search for, collect, interpret, analyse, or recall information in a way that confirms one's prior beliefs or preferences. In this paper, we review previous research and demonstrate confirmation …

Relations Between Effort Estimates, Skill Indicators, and Measured Programming Skill

2020 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

There are large skill differences among software developers, and clients and managers will benefit from being able to identify those with better skill. This study examines the relations between low effort estimates, and other commonly …

Measurement of Software Development Effort Estimation Bias: Avoiding Biased Measures of Estimation Bias

2022

In this paper, we propose improvements in how estimation bias, e.g., the tendency towards under-estimating the effort, is measured. The proposed approach emphasizes the need to know what the estimates are meant to represent, i.e., …