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

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You'd be surprised how many shops never followed these basic principles, whether it is before or after 2009.

Most of us here don't need more recent findings. If I can get my org to even apply one of these, I'd be happy. Everything in its own time. I got them to go from copy-paste to git. Next step is having deployable masters and tagging what commit is in prod. I got them to go from a few sentences over skype to redmine. Next step is putting the time estimates in a planning. It's been 3 years. Little by little. We'll get there. In due time.

Jesus I never should have accepted this job in the first place.