Seven Steps to Test Automation Success - http://www.io.com/~wazmo/papers/seven_steps.html This paper presents seven key steps: improve the testing process, define requirements, prove the concept, champion product testability, design for sustainability, plan for deployment, and face the challenges of success.
High-Pressure Steam Engines and Computer Software - http://sunnyday.mit.edu/steam.pdf Software safety. Parallels between the early development of high-pressure steam engines and software engineering that we can apply to the use of computers in complex systems.
Classic Mistakes Enumerated - http://www.stevemcconnell.com/rdenum.htm Description of 36 ineffective development practices: people-related, process-related, product-related, technology-related. (Sample chapter from Steve McConnell's book Rapid Development.)
Survival Crib Notes: NASA's Success Checklist - http://www.stevemcconnell.com/sgcrib.htm 9 Dos and 8 Don'ts for software project success, from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. (Sample chapter from Steve McConnell's book Software Project Survival Guide.)
Lessons Learned -- Current Problems - http://www.spmn.com/lessons.html Technical and managerial best/worst practices. Based on study of US Department of Defense software projects.
Introducing Demeter and its Laws - http://www.cmcrossroads.com/bradapp/docs/demeter-intro.html Adaptive Programming - specifying the connections between objects as loosely as possible. Makes programs more flexible, more resilient to change, and more adaptable to varying configurations of classes within a given domain
Principles of Good GUI Design - http://axp16.iie.org.mx/Monitor/v01n03/ar_ihc2.htm Describes the basic rules for all good interfaces - the cardinal dos and don'ts.
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