From: tbushell@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Tom Bushell)
Subject: Re: Software Development Environments (Was: What is wrong with OO ?)
Date: 1997/01/06
Date: 1997-01-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5aptuf$bf@news.istar.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 32CD3495.14FE@pc-plus.de
On Fri, 03 Jan 1997 17:32:21 +0100, Stephen Riehm <sr@pc-plus.de>
wrote:
>Another big help would be, in my view, the teaching of deterministic
>development practices. Unfortunately I am yet to have found ANY
>definitive work in this area, although some people are beginning to
>see the relevance. I can best describe this with examples of what NOT
>to do, but I am desperately searching for a mechanism to help improve
>the situation.
Have you seen the book "A Discipline for Software Engineering", by
Watts Humphrey? This might be exactly what you're looking for.
>Class browsers, CASE tools, CM systems and deterministic build
>environments can all greatly contribute to the reduction of bugs
>written in the first place. Finding bugs takes up about half of the
>software development cycle, and you will never get all of the bugs out
>of a program, but if you don't put them there in the first place, you
>end up with more stable, and easier to maintain software. (cheap and
>reliable!)
This is Humphrey's approach - the major focus is on defect reduction.
-Tom
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-12-31 0:00 What is wrong with OO ? Ell
1996-12-31 0:00 ` Nigel Tzeng
1996-12-31 0:00 ` Ian Joyner
1996-12-31 0:00 ` Robert C. Martin
1997-01-01 0:00 ` Tom Bushell
1997-01-02 0:00 ` Thaddeus L. Olczyk
1997-01-03 0:00 ` Case Tools for OO (was Re: What is wrong with OO ?) Mark Smith
1997-01-03 0:00 ` APEX - WAS: " Nigel Tzeng
1997-01-03 0:00 ` Software Development Environments (Was: " Stephen Riehm
1997-01-03 0:00 ` Nigel Tzeng
1997-01-04 0:00 ` "Paul E. Bennett"
1997-01-06 0:00 ` Key Abstraction that is coming Mark Smith
1997-01-06 0:00 ` John Howard
1997-01-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-06 0:00 ` Tom Bushell [this message]
1997-01-06 0:00 ` Software Development Environments (Was: What is wrong with OO ?) drush
1997-01-06 0:00 ` drush
1997-01-07 0:00 ` What is wrong with OO ? drush
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