Facts and fallacies of software engineering

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Heterogeneous Defect Prediction (2015, background): “…[14] such as McCabe’s Law (functions with a “cyclomatic complexity” greater than ten are more error prone); • Further, many other widely-cited researchers do the same such as Jones [32] and Glass [21] who list (for exmple) Brooks’ Law (adding programmers to a late project makes it later).”
A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Search-Based Testing: Local, Global, and Hybrid Search (2010, methodology): “Search based optimization techniques have been applied to structural software test data generation since 1992, with a recent upsurge in interest and activity within this area.”
Motivation in Software Engineering: A systematic literature review (2008, background): “Alternatively, as 60% of maintenance tasks are in fact enhancements (Glass 2003) this might also be regarded as problem-solving and challenging.”