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Software Development as an Emergent System

posted by Fnord666 on Monday August 27 2018, @01:54AM   
from the programmer-boids dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow4408

Software development is a complicated discipline, especially when you consider that it is performed by several people working together.

Comparing it to emergent systems is useful because it provides a perspective where we can think of software as something that evolves.

Being able to measure that evolution is then crucial if we want to be able to tell if the product we are building is holding up in terms of quality.

I also describe a tool named NDepend that serves exactly this purpose (and as far as I know has no competitors). It provides extensive metrics and allows for the creation of custom rules, all of this while supporting integration with a continuous integration workflow.

Source: https://www.blinkingcaret.com/2018/08/22/software-development-emergent-system-ndepend/

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• Not always (Score: 4, Interesting) by fyngyrz on Monday August 27 2018, @02:27AM

  by fyngyrz (6567) on Monday August 27 2018, @02:27AM (#726775) Journal

  Software development is a complicated discipline, especially when you consider that it is performed by several people working together.

  Not always, it isn't. There are some that do the whole thing, including documentation.

  To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three, two of whom are absent.

  Robert Copeland

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