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Many claims are made about how certain tools, technologies, and practices improve software development. But which claims are verifiable, and which are merely wishful thinking? In this book, leading thinkers such as Steve McConnell, Barry Boehm, and Barbara Kitchenham offer essays that uncover the truth and unmask myths commonly held among the software development community. Their insights may surprise you.
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Are some programmers really ten times more productive than others?
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Does writing tests first help you develop better code faster?
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Can code metrics predict the number of bugs in a piece of software?
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Do design patterns actually make better software?
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What effect does personality have on pair programming?
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What matters more: how far apart people are geographically, or how far apart they are in the org chart?
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 Web Data Management Practices: Emerging Techniques and TechnologiesThe Web revolution currently under way is making the Internet more and more central to our everyday lives. The amount of information available on the Web is increasing at an enormous rate, and almost everyday new services become available. The Internet is now widely used not only for B2B (business-to-business) and B2C (business-to-consumer)... | | Data Mashups in RThis article demonstrates how the realworld data is imported, managed, visualized, and analyzed within the R statistical framework. Presented as a spatial mashup, this tutorial introduces the user to R packages, R syntax, and data structures. The user will learn how the R environment works with R packages as well as its own capabilities in... | | Lighting Up: The Rise of Social Smoking on College Campuses
While the past 40 years have seen significant declines in adult smoking, this is not the case among young adults, who have the highest prevalence of smoking of all other age groups. At a time when just about everyone knows that smoking is bad for you, why do so many college students smoke? Is it a short lived phase or do they continue ... |
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