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  Agile UX storytelling: crafting stories for better software development
Baker R., Apress, New York, NY, 2017. 144 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-484229-96-5)

If you are familiar with agile methodology in the software development life cycle (SDLC), then you will know that user stories are used to create a shared understanding between the project team and stakeholders about what to build for ...

Mar 21 2018
  Learn Git in a month of lunches
Umali R., Manning Publications Co., Greenwich, CT, 2015. 376 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-617292-41-5)

This book, the latest in Manning’s “In a Month of Lunches” series, offers software professionals an introduction to source control and Git. It is a welcome addition to the list of books dedicated to what m...

Aug 31 2016
  Assisting developers with license compliance
Vendome C., Poshyvanyk D.  ICSE 2016 (Companion to the Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering, Austin, TX, May 14-22, 2016) 811-814, 2016.  Type: Proceedings

Open-source software licenses determine the conditions under which code can be used or changed. The Open Source Initiative lists dozens of licenses to choose from. A summary of recent research on software licensing is provided and the ...

Jul 21 2016
  Data and content management: a master’s level course
Smith J., McGuffee J. The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 31(1): 70-79, 2015.  Type: Article

An overview is provided of a graduate-level, information technology (IT) course in data and content management. Four main topics are covered in the course: encryption, content management systems, revision control systems, and nontradit...

Jul 6 2016
  A study of relationship between performance, temperament and personality of a software programmer
Gulati J., Bhardwaj P., Suri B., Lather A. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 41(1): 1-5, 2016.  Type: Article

Does a programmer’s personality impact her or his programming performance? Understanding what drives the quality of software production is the topic of a large effort from the software engineering community. Oddly enough, rel...

Jun 8 2016
  Refactoring for software design smells: managing technical debt
Suryanarayana G., Samarthyam G., Sharma T., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 2014. 258 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-128013-97-7)

While much has been published focused on code smells and implementation-oriented design patterns, there is a dearth of resources for software architects, designers, and developers working on software design at a macro level. This book ...

Aug 21 2015
  Continuous software engineering
Bosch J., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2014. 226 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319112-82-4)

I really like the concept of this book, as defined by the quote from the book’s back cover (below). I also somewhat know and like the editor and a few of the authors of the book’s chapters. Given all of that, can I ...

May 14 2015
  Git recipes: a problem-solution approach
Gajda W., Apress, New York, NY, 2013. 420 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-430261-03-2)

All software developers need to know about code subversion. As an instructor in software engineering this year, I have been trying to teach students that software is very much a team effort, where work is distributed and efficiently ma...

May 13 2015
  Pro Git (2nd ed.)
Chacon S., Straub B., Apress, New York, NY, 2014. 456 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-484200-77-3)

As is the case with the operas of certain composers, the Git software configuration management system is an acquired taste. Its command names are confusing, its interface is inconsistent, and its documentation is often terse and crypti...

Apr 1 2015
  Retrofitting concurrency for Android applications through refactoring
Lin Y., Radoi C., Dig D.  FSE 2014 (Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, Hong Kong, China, Nov 16-21, 2014) 341-352, 2014.  Type: Proceedings

The paper presents an automated refactoring tool that enables developers to extract long-running operations into a separate background task, instead of the main user interface (UI) thread. This approach reduces the burden on the progra...

Jan 23 2015
 
 
 
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