A Bit of Rigor
Joe Kiniry gave a talk
entitled A Bit of Rigor: Making Small Changes to Software Process
for Large Gains at the CASL/TRIL
TTP Research Day.
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Abstract: Software developers are confusing
creatures. They must chase a very dynamic discipline, but
they dislike changing how they work. They love to write code,
but they hate to write documentation. They use the same set
of tools that they became comfortable with when they "matured"
as software developers, but typically that was when they were
finishing their last degree. Finally, their understanding of
the field changes and evolves over time, but sometimes stalls.
In this talk I suggest a number of simple concepts, tools, and
techniques that have been successfully "gently" integrated
into existing software development processes that produce large
gains in a number of dimensions like quality, performance, and
more. The unifying theme to these small changes is that they
are all based upon the "gentle" use of rigor in software
engineering.
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