Showing posts with label Software Development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Software Development. Show all posts
10 April 2017

The Problem with Today’s Software Thought Leaders

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Albert Einstein once said:  "What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right."   The current zeitgei...
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26 September 2016

Software Development is a Risky Business

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Software projects are inherently risky.  Some statistics show that roughly seventy percent to fifty percent of software projects get cla...
23 March 2015

What is Software Correctness?

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Software correctness which is really software quality is not one thing.  It is comprised of a number of different and sometimes conflicting...
07 August 2012

Why You Can’t Have a Real Software Engineering Discipline

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As we all know the fields of computer science and software engineering are in their infancies.  Many a blog post has been written lamentin...
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22 October 2011

A Confederacy of Cargo Cult Coders

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I hate to say it but I feel that one of the biggest problems with Software Engineering is the prevalence of programmers who are Cargo ...
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21 August 2011

You Can Control What You Can’t Measure

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A couple of years ago, Tom Demarco published a brief article titled: " Software Engineering:An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?...
13 June 2011

RTFC

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Often in our industry the M in RTFM is the code itself.  Yes, there should be more documentation but ultimately if you are a developer the c...
01 May 2011

Driven Development

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I have recently made the transition to working at a TDD (Test Driven Development) shop, I have no previous experience with it and I am sti...
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