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Sorry, I should have given some examples.

I'm talking about the secondary work that goes into software, things like environment setup, building artifacts, producing ancillary tooling, and deployment.

I know these might be considered disparate, and I'm intentionally omitting topics that I know are studied, such as formal verification and fuzzing.

I was joking with my spouse, who is a methodologist in medicine, about making a group of researchers set up environments for working on various large open source projects as an example.

Perhaps all of this crosses into operations research?



Yes, dev ops and the surrounding tooling are studied. ICSE, FSE, and CHI publish papers on these topics.

Though you’re right that code gets more attention.




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