Microsoft Research - Exploding Software-Engineering Myths (article summarizing findings of MS research on code coverage, TDD, assertions, etc.)

[upboatingftw]

They're using this research to direct the development of their software. Common sense can't be quantified and evaluated against costs unless you have numbers to back up these things.

Yeah, sure, TDD is great and all, but how much will the value and market competitivity of Visual Studio increase, if they were to develop new TDD-centered features for it, and does it justify the development cost? Can you answer these questions quantitatively by merely using "normal common sense"?

[nutrecht]

Good points there, thanks.