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• Principles of Good GUI Design - Describes the basic rules for all good interfaces - the software engineering cardinal dos and don'ts.
• Introducing Demeter and its Laws - Adaptive Programming - specifying the connections between objects articles as loosely as possible. Makes programs more flexible, articles more resilient to change, and more adaptable to articles varying configurations of classes within a given domain
• Sure It Works, But Is It Beautiful: The Relationship Between Software Aesthetics and Quality - Some aspects of the relationship between quality and aesthetics (beauty) articles in software, using architecture analogies.
• Nine Steps to Delivering Defect-Free Software - By a software developer and consultant with over articles 30 years software experience.
• Seven Principles Of Software Development - Emphasizes "soft" issues - attitude, approach.
• What Do Users Want? Engineering Usability into Software - User-Centered Design. Simple approaches for delivering smaller, simpler systems that software engineering better serve the needs of users.
• Seven Steps to Test Automation Success - This paper presents seven key steps: improve the testing process, software engineering define requirements, prove the concept, champion product testability, design for software engineering sustainability, plan for deployment, and face the challenges of success.
• The Many Dimensions of the Software Process - Explores the importance and purpose of software process and quality.
• On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules - One of the classic articles leading to modern articles software engineering, articles by D.L. Parnas.
• Successful Engineering Management: 7 Lessons Learned - People management advice for technical people.
• Building bug-free O-O software: An introduction to Design by Contract - Advanced use of assertions for clearer specifications and software greater software articles reliability. By OO guru Bertrand Meyer, software creator of Eiffel.
• Medical Devices: The Therac-25 - Case study of a well known software error.[PDF]
• Lessons Learned -- Current Problems - Technical and managerial best/worst practices. Based on study of US Department of Defense software projects.
• Classic Mistakes Enumerated - Description of 36 ineffective development practices: people-related, process-related, software engineering product-related, technology-related. (Sample chapter from Steve McConnell\'s book software engineering Rapid Development.)
• Survival Crib Notes: NASA's Success Checklist - 9 Dos and 8 Don\\'ts for software project success, from software NASA\\'s Goddard Space Flight Center. (Sample chapter from Steve McConnell\\'s software book Software Project Survival Guide.)
• Orphans Preferred - Characteristics of software developers - personality type, demographics, articles age, education, software attitudes.
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• Heavy Rotation - For business software, faster-cheaper can be better too.

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