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Must Software Research Stand Divided? (PDF)
A not-so-subtle divide separates empirical and constructionist software
research. The antagonism between the two camps does not serve our industry
well—it needs both modes of research.| Hakan Erdogmus
Guest Editors' Introduction
Where's My Jetpack? (PDF)
Rather than progressing toward ever-increasing levels of abstraction,
two simple trends have driven the evolution of software development tools:
integration at the source-code level and a focus on quality. |
Simon Helsen, Arthur Ryman, and Diomidis Spinellis
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Volta:
Developing Distributed Applications by Recompiling (PDF)
To understand and measure complex software systems, you can use a
variety of complexity metrics as rules of thumb: SLOC, the number of design
patterns at work, how your chosen metrics change over time, and more. | Dragos Manolescu, Brian Beckman, and
Benjamin Livshits
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The Biological Half-Life of Software Engineering Ideas (PDF)
Some software engineering ideas have a half-life of roughly five years.
What can software engineers do to thus stay abreast of new
technologies? | Philippe
Kruchten
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