Folklore in Software Engineering: A Definition and Conceptual Foundations

Conference Paper Eduard Paul Enoiu, Jean Malm, Gregory Gay

A working definition of software engineering folklore, the informal narratives and heuristics shared among practitioners, based on a literature review and interviews with 12 industrial practitioners in Sweden.

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This paper was published at the 19th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2026), as part of the MONA LISA project.

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