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software engineering

Software Engineering: Dead?

I was utterly floored when I read this new IEEE article by Tom DeMarco (pdf). See if you can tell why. My early metrics book, Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimates [1986], played a role in the way many budding software engineers quantified work and planned their projects. In

software development

A Visit from the Metrics Maid

For the last few days, I've been surveying a software project. Landing on a planet populated entirely by an alien ecosystem of source code can be overwhelming. That's why the first first thing I do is bust out my software tricorder -- static code analysis tools.