Title :
An analysis of the effects of company culture, education and experience on confirmation bias levels of software developers and testers
Author :
Calikli, Gul ; Bener, Ayse ; Arslan, Berna
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Eng., Bogazici Univ., Istanbul, Turkey
Abstract :
In this paper, we present a preliminary analysis of factors such as company culture, education and experience, on confirmation bias levels of software developers and testers. Confirmation bias is defined as the tendency of people to verify their hypotheses rather than refuting them and thus it has an effect on all software testing.
Keywords :
professional aspects; program testing; company culture effects; confirmation bias levels; education effect analysis; software developer; software tester; Cognition; Educational institutions; Measurement; Programming; Psychology; Software; Testing; cognitive biases; confirmation bias; software engineering; software testing;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering, 2010 ACM/IEEE 32nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cape Town
Print_ISBN :
978-1-60558-719-6
DOI :
10.1145/1810295.1810326
