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If Releases Are Experiments, What’s Your Hypothesis? (codemanship.wordpress.com)
submitted 1 week ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Shouldn't it be the other way around?

[–] codeinabox@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I am intrigued. Could you elaborate on this with some examples?

[–] felsiq@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not the same person, but I assume they mean the release being the hypothesis (“this version will do what we want”) and people using it to be the experiments testing the hypothesis

[–] codeinabox@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

My understanding is that an example of a hypothesis, is that users want a feature. The experiment is putting that feature in front of users, or performing user research, which which then allows you to validate if a hypothesis is true or not.