Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Digital Library. More than 3,500 documents from three decades of research into best practices in software engineering. technical reports, presentations, webinars, podcasts, etc.
Cargo cult software engineering is easy to identify. Cargo cult software engineers justify their practices by saying, "We’ve always done it this way in the past," or "our company standards require us to do it this way"—even when those ways make no sense.
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216 - 226(2012)<ce:title>Special issue with selected papers from the 23rd Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering</ce:title>.