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Software process improvement: concepts and practices
McGuire E. (ed), Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, 1999. 241 pp. Type: Book (9781878289544)
In spite of its title, many of the book’s 11 papers, written almost exclusively by academicians, are only loosely related to software process improvement. The inadequate three-page preface merely provides a spotty overview of...
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Apr 1 2000 |
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Automated software testing
Dustin E., Rashka J., Paul J., Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1999. Type: Book (9780201432879)
Imagine a pastry cookbook in which there are long discussions of growing wheat and hiring pastry chefs, but no pastry recipes. This book is purportedly about automated software testing. It contains long, unfocused discussions of softwa...
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Dec 1 1999 |
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Information rules
Shapiro C., Varian H. (ed), Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 1998. Type: Book (9780875848631)
Computer science curricula typically approach software from an engineering rather than a business perspective, thereby leaving computer science graduates poorly equipped to compete with MBAs in product strategization. Books like this s...
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May 1 1999 |
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Process patterns
Ambler S., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 1998. Type: Book (9780521645683)
More than anything, this book seems focused on selling books. The title includes patterns and object technology, both of which are very popular, but the book contains strangely little about either. One quickly learns that this is the f...
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Feb 1 1999 |
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Visual modeling with Rational Rose and UML
Quatrani T., Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1998. Type: Book (9780201310160)
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the unification of a number of different object-oriented development methods, most notably those of Booch, Jacobson, and Rumbaugh, all of whom currently work for Rational Software Corporation. Rat...
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Sep 1 1998 |
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Successful software process improvement
Grady R., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997. Type: Book (9780136266235)
Software process improvements are changes to the software development process that make it more effective. Although one would expect Grady’s book to provide a comprehensive list of process improvements that one might use, it ...
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Feb 1 1998 |
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Java in a nutshell
Flanagan D. (ed), O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 1996. Type: Book (9781565921832)
Java is unprecedented among programming languages in gaining popularity so quickly. Nearly every professional programmer I know is learning to use it, motivated by the belief that it will be the next major application language. Many pr...
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Jun 1 1997 |
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POSIX.4: programming for the real world
Gallmeister B., O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 1995. Type: Book (9781565920743)
POSIX.4 is a loosely related set of real-time extensions to POSIX.1. Operating system vendors can choose which extensions to implement, so there is no simple designation of POSIX.4 compliance. Extensions are specified for signal handle...
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Aug 1 1996 |
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Program integration for languages with procedure calls
Binkley D., Horwitz S., Reps T. Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics: An International Journal 4(1): 3-35, 1995. Type: Article
When two or more programmers independently change a program’s source code, the changes should be merged only if the program’s intended behavior is preserved. Source code control systems vary in the degree to which t...
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Mar 1 1996 |
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Programming with class
Gray N., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1994. Type: Book (9780471943501)
Gray begins where most textbooks on C++ stop. Using C++ as the vehicle, this book provides an intelligent, well-researched foundation for object-oriented programming. It covers analysis and design, language elements, historical context...
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Sep 1 1995 |
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