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Information Technology Predictions for 2013 While 2013 may appear calmer compared to 2012 due in part to fewer “big” events scheduled this year, the information technology (IT) industry and profession advances forward. The IT industry, interestingly enough, shapes events in addition to being shaped by events around the world. |
James Sullivan
January 23, 2013 |
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Designing Products for Users in Context When designing software, you must look beyond simply knowing the goals of your users. It's far more useful to understand the context in which the product will be used. |
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Continuous Integration and the Automated Database Update Process Developers must have good feedback to ensure productivity. Most shops have a continuous integration (CI) build process that allows the developer to quickly know if a build failed, and some shops have an automatic deploy of the CI build to provide website feedback. Lance Lyons writes about an approach to automating the update of databases in a CI environment. |
Lance Lyons
July 14, 2011 |
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Real-Time Problem Detection in Software Development Designing and developing software, it's usually cheaper to prevent problems from ever occurring (by making a decision at design-time) rather than patching them as they happen. But detecting problems in real-time is a useful skill in many professions, including one as different as recording audio books. |
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How to Survive a Software Rewrite Beware of the hidden sirens in your rewrite project. They will sing the words you want to hear--that the project is easy to complete. Don't be fooled: Sirens are mythological, but the lure of rewrite projects can be quite real. Rewrite may seem a simple task, but it isn't until you're deep into it that you'll start to realize the true nature of the project. In this article, James Shore offers some words of wisdom (and warning) to help guide your rewrite project in the right direction. |
James Shore
July 31, 2009 |
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The Definition of "Done" in Software Development Getting all of the necessary people together to define what "done" means in a software development project will be difficult. Facilitating such a task will probably be a challenge, but there is nothing like working in an organization that works like a well-oiled machine, where everyone knows what is expected of him or her and just naturally does it. |
Alan S. Koch
December 17, 2007 |
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Software Development : How Good It Can Be This article is dedicated to telling you how good developing software can be. Austin Hastings describes many software development practices working together, some of which you don't have. If you like an idea you see here, implement it. After your first implementation steps, you can return here to find yet another idea to implement. |
Austin Hastings
June 29, 2006 |
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Structure Marking Structure marking is a programming technique that defends data against damage, especially from software bugs. It adds flags to data structures and checks them at each use to detect damaged data immediately. |
Tom Van Vleck
August 5, 2005 |
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Design and Code Inspection Metrics In this study, historical inspection data from large real-time embedded systems were analyzed with the intention of improving the current review process. |
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The Future of Code Coverage Tools Modern optimizing compilers are becoming increasingly dependent on dynamic profile information. Because the profile information collected by these compilers also is sufficient for QA, it is likely that code-coverage analysis will become an integrated development environment option. This integration should help to simplify your code development and testing processes and should also improve the accuracy of your coverage information and the performance of your optimized code. |
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