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Monday, February 06, 2006 3:00 AM

Dependency management: Coupling and cohesion

Dependency management turns ugly when Assembly A gets a transitive dependency (in red, the slash means ‘derived’) to Assembly C even if Assembly A apparently does not depend directly to nothing in Assembly C: The evolution of large-scale designs with
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Sunday, February 05, 2006 3:00 AM

Dependency management with CLR Assemblies and Types: Relationships

I keep in mind the following concepts when designing with .NET Framework assemblies and types; that is, when doing object-oriented design —an activity also known as dependency management, which is equal and the same for the most part. Aggregation between
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Saturday, February 04, 2006 3:00 AM

Professional testing = Applied epistemology

I am getting some acquaintance with the trade of professional testing; it is just amazing how far were my previous testing notions from the state of the art in such a profession. Again, pillars from that trade like Glenford J. Myers and Cem Kaner help
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Friday, February 03, 2006 3:00 AM

How MDA could not be just another CASE fallacy?

If, and only if, MDA proponents articulate a new kind of general-purpose source code at a higher level of abstraction such as we never ever need to see again third generation programming languages source code. If you need to see it again, then MDA is
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Thursday, February 02, 2006 1:20 AM

Pillars of our trade

Very good article in IEEE Software January/Februry 2006 magazine: Looking for Powerful Abstractions by Rebecca J. Wirfs-Brock "Finding the right level of abstraction takes practice and experimentation. There are times when both concrete classes and their
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006 3:00 AM

Concurrency concepts now, more than ever before

Multi-core microprocessors, hyperthreading and other technologies surely on the way to the target computers for your software application will need from you to master concurrency concepts more that ever before, here is in essence why: "Chip designers
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