Confirmation bias is a person's tendency to look for evidence that strengthens his/her prior beliefs rather than refutes them. Manifestation of confirmation bias in software testing may have adverse effects on software quality. Psychology research suggests that time pressure could trigger confirmation bias.
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%A Salman, Iflaah
%A Turhan, Burak
%A Vegas, Sira
%D 2018
%J Empirical Software Engineering
%K forweb imported
%R 10.1007/s10664-018-9668-8
%T A controlled experiment on time pressure and confirmation bias in functional software testing
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%X Confirmation bias is a person's tendency to look for evidence that strengthens his/her prior beliefs rather than refutes them. Manifestation of confirmation bias in software testing may have adverse effects on software quality. Psychology research suggests that time pressure could trigger confirmation bias.
%Z (Article in press)
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title = {{A controlled experiment on time pressure and confirmation bias in functional software testing}},
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