Evidence-based Software Engineering

TL;DR — Derek Jones’ book on what software engineering data actually shows, built only on publicly available datasets.

How much weight it carries: An author-released book that is careful about evidence; its thesis is that the field has very little.

Where this came from

• Will Manidis’s “most underrated PDF” thread, July 2023 — routing record: The Most Underrated PDF on the Internet (July 2023)

454 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.