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So far, the best reference for software engineering research appears to be R. Glass et al.'s 2002 work, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering. I haven't found a better or more comprehensive reference.

It would be great to see an updated edition.

Do you know a better source of information?

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Glass is great!

The only others who compare are his contemporaries, Steve McConnell, Timothy Lister, Tom DeMarco, and Barry Boehm.

Unfortunately, they're all basically retired. It feels like this kind of interest in software development, at least the publishing, ended around the mid-2000s.

My guess is the shift to blogs from books, adoption of Agile (in whatever form), and a shift in industry focus to getting rich rather than getting good ended the efforts to come up with resources like Glass put together.

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