What Do Programmers Really Do Anyway? The data is in!
The smart folks over in the MSR-Human Interactions in Programming team have done some interesting research into the question of "What Do Programmers Really Do Anyway?". I'm more than a little pleased to see that the data is consistent with the assertions I made in my previous blog posts.
Some of their results are here:
http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?type=Technical%20Report&id=994
http://research.microsoft.com/hip/papers/Ko2007BugFixing.pdf
Their team's web site is:
http://research.microsoft.com/hip/
I'm looking forward to more great work from these folks,
Peter
