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C++ Reloaded

by Chuck Allison, June 21, 2004 3 messages

Good Things are happening in the C++ world.

Pass Context to Unit Tests with Artima SuiteRunner

by Bill Venners, June 14, 2004 1 message

This article shows you how to pass context to unit and conformance tests by supplying settings properties to Artima SuiteRunner.

Testing Private Methods with JUnit and SuiteRunner

by Bill Venners, May 24, 2004 26 messages

This article compares four different approaches to testing private methods in Java classes.

Analyzing a Web-Based Performance Problem

by Arash Barirani and Jeffrey Blake, May 10, 2004 6 messages

Have performance problems? This article outlines a methodology and a plan of attack in solving performance problems in a web-based system.

Licensing and Architecture

by Bill Venners, April 19, 2004 Submit comment

Luke Hohmann talks with Bill Venners about the impact licensing models have on software architecture, the sustainability of open source business models, and the benefits of providing licensing options.

Tarchitects and Marketects

by Bill Venners, April 12, 2004 3 messages

Luke Hohmann talks with Bill Venners about the different roles of technical and marketing architects, the source of innovation, and the importance of pursuing the same vision of the future.

Becoming an Architect

by Bill Venners, April 5, 2004 1 message

Luke Hohmann talks with Bill Venners about the social role of software architects, the value of sticking with a product release after release, and the importance of domain knowledge.

Human-Oriented Architecture

by Bill Venners, March 29, 2004 5 messages

Luke Hohmann talks with Bill Venners about mapping software architecture to human needs, choosing languages for social reasons, and selecting the appropriate architectural granularity.

Entropy Reduction

by Bill Venners, March 22, 2004 7 messages

Luke Hohmann talks with Bill Venners about entropy reduction, the cost of change, and programming as choreography.

Growing, Pruning, and Spiking Your Architecture

by Bill Venners, March 15, 2004 1 message

Luke Hohmann talks with Bill Venners about architecture and culture, the importance of completeness in new architectures, and implementing features in spikes.

Failure, Preconditions, and Reuse

by Bill Venners, March 8, 2004 8 messages

Bertrand Meyer talks with Bill Venners about strategies for dealing with failure, where to check preconditions, and when it's appropriate to design for reuse.

Contract-Driven Development

by Bill Venners, March 1, 2004 22 messages

Bertrand Meyer talks with Bill Venners about how Design by Contract relates to test-driven development.

Elegance and Other Design Ideals

by Bill Venners, February 23, 2004 35 messages

Bjarne Stroustrup talks with Bill Venners about many aspects of software design, including growing small applications into larger ones, avoiding class distinctions between designers and users, the dangers of premature generalization, and the essence of elegance.

Abstraction and Efficiency

by Bill Venners, February 16, 2004 10 messages

Bjarne Stroustrup talks with Bill Venners about raising the level of abstraction, why programming is understanding, how "oops happens," and the difference between premature and prudent optimization.

Insights into the .NET Architecture

by Bill Venners with Bruce Eckel, February 9, 2004 4 messages

Eric Gunnerson, the C# Compiler Program Manager at Microsoft, talks with Bruce Eckel and Bill Venners about several architectural design decisions in .NET, including multiple inheritance of interface, the emphasis on messaging over mobile code, internal access in assemblies, and the side-by-side execution answer to DLL Hell.