Thread: Software Engineering Is Bad, But That's Not Why

Software Engineering Is Bad, But That's Not Why (blackhole12.com)

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Why are we so bad at software engineering? (bitlog.com)

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InfoEducatie 2014 Software Engineering Contest (palcu.blogspot.com)

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mbeddr - engineering the future of embedded software (mbeddr.com)

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mbeddr is a set of integrated and extensible languages for embedded software engineering, plus an IDE (built on JetBrains MPS – Meta Programming System). It supports implementation, testing, verification and process aspects. It integrates with command-line build tools and integration servers, as wel...

Interesting bits from “Perspectives on Software Engineering” (mononcqc.tumblr.com)

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Software Engineering Principles and Practices Exam Specifications (cdn.ncees.org)

L 1 pts 1 comments by mikemccracken Feb 27, 2015 pdfpracticesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Topics and Section descriptions for the NCEES Software Engineering [PE Exam](http://ncees.org/exams/pe-exam/). I'm just learning about this. As I understand it, it is currently being used to formally license Software Engineers in the US. The methodology is described in this (paywalled) paper from...

Workshop on analyzing software engineering data (shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com)

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Software Engineering (theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com)

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Exaptation and the Future of Software Engineering (third-bit.com)

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Glenn Vanderburg of LivingSocial on why software development is an engineering discipline (youtube.com)

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Exploding Software-Engineering Myths (2009) (research.microsoft.com)

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Code Valley: Peer-to-peer software engineering (codevalley.com)

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Is “Software Engineering” an Oxymoron? (tinlizzie.org)

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Names are important – improving use of terms in software engineering (andidog.de)

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A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering (prog21.dadgum.com)

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Striking parallels between mathematics and software engineering (oreilly.com)

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Pain-Driven Development: Why Greedy Algorithms Are Bad for Engineering Orgs (bravenewgeek.com)

L 6 pts 1 comments by tylertreat Apr 7, 2017 culturepractices Programming Languages / CS Theory Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Ontology Driven Software Engineering for Real Life Applications (odaseontologies.com)

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Foundations of Semantics and Model Checking in a Software Engineering Course (2015) (ceur-ws.org)

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The software engineering rule of 3 (erikbern.com)

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Why Patents Are Bad for Software (groups.csail.mit.edu)

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Fourteen Years of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich (arxiv.org)

L 9 pts 3 comments by nickpsecurity Dec 15, 2017 compscieducationhistoricalprogramming Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Stranger than Fiction Case Studies in Software Engineering Judgment (2015) (youtube.com)

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Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering (talks.golang.org)

L 10 pts 1 comments by friendlysock Apr 3, 2018 gophilosophyprogramming Programming (General)Design / UX / Visualization Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (link.springer.com)

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Premium mediocrity is software engineering’s demographic (shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com)

L 42 pts 31 comments by yumaikas Jun 4, 2018 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Cleanroom Software Engineering Case Study at NASA: Early Analysis (1990) (ntrs.nasa.gov)

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Trimmed abstract: "This case study analyzes the application of the [Cleanroom methdology](http://infohost.nmt.edu/~al/cseet-paper.html) to the development of production software at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The Cleanroom methodology emphasizes human discipline in program verification to ...

The Bulk of Software Engineering in 2018 is Just Plumbing (karllhughes.com)

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Another Week with Bad Software (thoughtspile.github.io)

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Meta: Visual CLI Builder for Software Engineering Processes (medium.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by ohm-r Oct 3, 2018 askpracticesprogrammingshow Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Meta is a CLI builder with a visual editor. It can automate running any CLI, in addition to HTTP requests and other bridges (it uses a workflow engine under the hood, compatible to a certain extent with theAmazon State Language). I've dedicated it originally to build custom workflows around Git (...