The term "technical debt" refers to messy source code, data, or architecture in a software system. It represents a vague a...

Abstract Two distinctly different widely used meanings of the term code refactoring are identified and named: Changing how code...

Summary  Building upon the realization that conventional means of software design today amount to nothing more than fancy whiteboards, ...

Abstract In this paper we examine the current state of affairs in Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) ( W ) tools specif...

The first model of cosmology that I was exposed to, as a small child, was that of the static universe, because that's all my f...

Abstract The popular practice of having only two different kinds of builds ( Debug and Release ) is shown to be inadequate. Thr...

GitLab allows the insertion of images in code review comments. They make it really easy: if you have an image on the clipboard, you can...

In languages like Java and C# Abstract The need is identified for programmatically ascertaining the immutability of certain obj...

Summary Type names as reported by the dotnet runtime are in a cryptic, non-human-readable format. Attempts by many to solve this prob...

 In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is. -- Benjamin Brewster, ca. 1882 (acco...