Design pattern density is a metric that measures how much of an object-oriented design can be understood and represented as instances of design patterns. Expert developers have lo...
In this paper, we present a view of design methods as discourse on practice. We consider how the deployment of a particular set of design methods enables and constrains not only p...
Marisa Leavitt Cohn, Susan Elliott Sim, Paul Douri...
The concept of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has had a significant impact not only on software engineering but on the analysis of an organization's business layer as we...
: Metrics are both fashionable and timely: many regulations that affect cybersecurity rely upon metrics – albeit, of the checklist variety in many cases – to ascertain complian...
Teaching (and therefore learning) eXtreme Programming (XP) in a university setting is difficult because of course time limitations and the soft nature of XP that requires first-ha...