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9780201433234

The Limits of Software: People, Projects, and Perspectives

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  • ISBN13:

    9780201433234

  • ISBN10:

    0201433230

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-07-01
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Summary

Discusses the culture and infrastructure of soft- ware development, combining history, characters, dialogue, memoirs, and technical information. Describes software development's evolution from the early systems of the 1960s and 1970s to the present. Softcover. DLC: Computer software.

Author Biography

Robert N. Britcher is retired from IBM. The author of numerous articles and papers on software, he teaches about software, systems engineering, and management at Johns Hopkins University.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Robert L. Glass
Prologue xiii
PART I
Early Systems
3(14)
Theories of Programming
17(12)
The Human Element
29(6)
Designing
35(14)
Code: The Stuff of Programs
49(8)
Testing Computer Systems
57(10)
The Impossible Profession
67(12)
Life on the Project
79(10)
PART II
Supervision Through Language
89(12)
How Technology Changes Methods
101(10)
Size and Intellectual Gravity
111(10)
The Marketing of Science
121(12)
Errors
133(8)
The One Great System
141(8)
The Government of Programming
149(14)
The System to End All
163(28)
The End-All of Programming
191(8)
Afterword 199(12)
Reading List 211

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