The Real Cost of Change in Software Development

There are two widely opposed (and often misunderstood) positions on how expensive it can be to change or fix software…

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This is how Facebook Develops and Deploys Software. Should you care?

A recently published academic paper by Prof. Dror Feitelson at Hebrew University, Eitan Frachtenberg a research scientist at Facebook, and…

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Getting Application Security Vulnerabilities Fixed

It’s a lot harder to fix application security vulnerabilities than it should be. In their May 2013 security report, WhiteHat…

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Looking for Answers at Agile 2013

I went to Agile 2013 last week in Nashville to look for answers on how Agile development ideas and practices…

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Maintaining Software Sucks – and what we can do about it

If you ask most developers, they will tell you that working in maintenance sucks. Understanding and fixing somebody else’s lousy…

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Agile Development leads to Alzheimer’s

Iterative development and design helps you to reach your way towards understanding what the customer really needs, to try out…

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Design Patterns after Design is Done

Design Patterns are a useful tool when you are designing a system, an effective shorthand for communicating and sharing design…

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What is Important in Secure Software Design?

There are many basic architectural and design mistakes that can compromise the security of a system: Missing something important in…

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Automated Tests as Documentation

One of the arguments for writing automated tests is that tests can act as useful documentation for a system. But…

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