[deregulateMed]

Despite insistence of programmers wanting to be scientists and engineers, it's not true to the definition.

Maybe safety critical C or assembly is engineering.

Maybe testing code for speed can be considered science.

By the time any useful program is finished, there's significantly more tradition and art than Science and engineering.

[routerl]

Sure, but I think the underlying instinct behind "evidence based software engineering" is precisely about turning those "maybes" into measurements.

In principle, I'm in favor of this endeavor, and the article at hand expresses frustration about apparently arbitrary barriers towards accomplishing these measurements.

I don't know about you, but I'm generally always in favor of "let's measure more things and build more models from that data, to make sure we're actually improving"