Showing posts with label software-engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label software-engineering. Show all posts
Friday, April 29, 2022

Prerelease Errors Yield Post-Release Errors

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Software with a lot of prerelease errors will also have a lot of post-release errors. This is bad news for developers, but ful...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

Fix Problems, Not Symptoms

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When software fails, you have an obligation to fully understand the cause of the failure, not just to do a cursory analysis an...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Principles of Distributed System Design

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Every day software engineers face the task of designing new systems or maintaining existing systems. Whether the need to make ...
Saturday, March 05, 2022

If it ain't broke, don't fix it

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Of course the advice of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" is applicable to many aspects of life, but it is p...
Tuesday, March 01, 2022

Validation and Verification

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Large software developments need as many checks and balances as possible to ensure a quality product. One proven technique is ...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

Twitter Card Meta Tags

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My girlfriend likes to say that I'm, "such a fanboy" of Mary Roach. Maybe so. I was going to make a Twitter pos...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Keep Track of Every Change

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Every change has the potential to cause problems. Three common problems are: The change did not fix the problem for which it ...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Control Baselines

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It is the responsibility of software configuration management (SCM) to hold the agreed-upon specifications and regulate change...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Rotate People Through Product Assurance

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  In many organizations, people are moved into product assurance teams as a first assignment or after they have demonstrated poo...
Monday, June 14, 2021

Establish Software Management Procedures Early

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 Effective software management is not just having a tool that records who made what change to the code or documentation. It is a...
Sunday, May 16, 2021

Product Assurance Is Not a Luxury

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  Product assurance includes: software configuration management software quality assurance verification and validation testing Of...
Saturday, April 24, 2021

Do a Project Postmortem

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At the end of every project, give all the key project members a three or four day assignment to analyze every problem that occur...
Sunday, March 14, 2021

The Thought That Disaster Is Impossible Often Leads To Disaster

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Gerald Weinberg's "Titanic Effect" principle is that believing that disaster is impossible often leads to disaster....
Tuesday, February 02, 2021

Manage by Variance

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  It is difficult, if not impossible, to manage a project without a detailed plan. Once you have a plan, update it as necessary. ...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Miraculous Productivity Increases

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The technology industry is saturated with people who preach that this tool or that technique will reduce development cost. We al...
Monday, December 14, 2020

What Version of Java Compiled This

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I try to use the latest stable version of Java/JDK when I can. There are a lot of performance improvements in newer versions o...
Friday, November 13, 2020

The Method Won't Save You

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We have all heard the preaching of "method zealots" who say, "If you just adopt my method, most of ...
Monday, October 26, 2020

Use An Appropriate Process Model

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Dozens of process models are available for software projects to utilize: agile, waterfall, SAFe, throwaway prototyping, incremental de...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Community Adoption of New Practices

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Community adoption of new practices can mean a lot of things.  From getting a small team to try a new methodology or tool to convincing the ...
Monday, September 07, 2020

Understand Risks Up Front

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On any software project it is impossible to predict exactly what will go wrong. However, something will go wrong. In the early stages of pla...