Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass

Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering Robert L. Glass ebook
Page: 150
Publisher: addison-wesley
ISBN: 0321117425, 9780321117427
Format: pdf

We try to keep projects moving by using our creative facilities only to find that we, in fact, can't read anyone's mind and therefore guess incorrectly as to what exactly it is that we're building. We should not be afraid to change direction once new information leads us to question the viability of our original decisions. My mate Bryan Dollery lent it to me after a chat in the pub about developer productivity. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering. Glass states that “Maintenance typically consumes 40 to 80 percent of software costs”. I've just read Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering and I love it. In his article “Learning to distinguish a solution from a problem” and his book “Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering”, Robert L. The most important factor in software work is not the tools and techniques used by the programmers, but rather the quality of the programmers themselves. Here are some common fallacies uttered by non-engineers in my presence:. We never have all of the facts when we start a project. Glass is a fascinating little change of pace that I just finished reading. Robert Glass, "Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering". So I've just graduated from university. Many of these fundamentally important facts are learned by a software engineer, but over the short lifespan of the software field, all too many of them have been forgotten. It was written by an academic-type (i.e. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. What makes the reputation disturbing to me is that I know many software engineers personally, and they are generally a fun-loving, agreeable (if not opinionated), and entertaining bunch.