Tasty » Adam Sampson's software-engineering bookmarks

"though I would consider the requirements for writing really secure software qui... | Hacker News edit / delete

Links to some projects doing secure software engineering in practice.

to security software-engineering ... on 06 December 2016

Clean Coder Blog edit / delete

Mutation testing: testing your test suite by systematically introducing faults and seeing whether it picks them up. Nice.

to bugs mutation-testing software-engineering testing ... on 28 August 2016

Long Names Are Long – journal.stuffwithstuff.com edit / delete

Advice on short variable names. (This is basically the same as the Google style guide suggests, which shouldn't be surprising given the author works at Google...)

to ag0700 naming software-engineering ... on 28 August 2016

Notes on concurrency bugs edit / delete

A couple of studies (now a few years old) looking at what kinds of concurrency bugs show up in real software.

to concurrency correctness debugging software-engineering ... on 28 August 2016

Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 edit / delete

An excellent specification of the approach to version numbering used by many free software projects.

to release software software-engineering version ... on 21 June 2016

Static vs. dynamic languages: a literature review edit / delete

Metastudy of the effectiveness of static typing. Well worth reading. "The summary of the summary is that most studies find very small effects, if any. However, the studies probably don’t cover contexts you’re actually interested in"

to language-design research software-engineering type-systems ... on 28 February 2016

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security edit / delete

Probably best viewed as starting points for discussion...

to design philosophy security software-engineering ... on 31 December 2015

A successful Git branching model » nvie.com edit / delete

Nothing especially novel about the model, but this is a nice explanation with diagrams.

to ag0700 branching git software-engineering version-control ... on 03 May 2015

The real benefit of Agile - Michael Brunton-Spall edit / delete

"Doing agile badly is cheaper than doing waterfall badly". Short and sweet.

to ag0700 agile software-engineering ... on 13 March 2015

Game Programming Patterns edit / delete

A relatively small collection of design patterns for games implementation, including reevaluation of some of the Gang of Four patterns. Good content; students will probably find this an interesting read. (The writing style is a bit cutesy, though!)

to ag0700 design design-patterns games patterns software-engineering ... on 13 March 2015