How Software Developers Mitigate Their Errors When Developing Code

Code remains largely hand-made by humans and, as such, writing code is prone to error. Many previous studies have focused on the technical reasons for these errors and provided developers with increasingly sophisticated tools. Few looked in detail at why been made from a human perspective. We use Human Error Theory frame our exploratory study semi-structured interviews uncover preliminary understanding of make while coding. look particularly Skill-based (SB) reported 27 professional software developers. found that complexity development environment one most frequently errors. Maintaining concentration focus particular task also underpins many developer struggle effective mitigation strategies their errors, reporting based improving own willpower concentrate better coding tasks. discuss how using Reason’s Swiss Cheese model may help reduce during development. This ensures layers tool, process management are place prevent causing system failures.