Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

Introduction

The notion of adding a few fallacies to this book kind of grew on me. I started out with the idea that in the field there were far too many fundamental facts that had been either forgotten or never learned by the people who should know them. And I wanted to contribute those facts, in some fairly succinct and accessible manner, to the field.

But as I searched for those facts and the controversies surrounding them and their sources, I kept running into what I considered fallacies. Things that many people in the software field believe that are, in my not so humble opinion, just not true. Not only things that were said in some distant past by a significant software spokesperson, but things that have been repeated frequently ever ...