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The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention by McDonald, Marc, Musson, Robert, Smith, Ross [Microsoft Press, 2007] (Paperback) [Paperback]
The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention by McDonald, Marc, Musson, Robert, S...
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May 10, 2012
I only gave 2 stars to this book because the impression it left on me was diminished by books I've read in the past.
Having previously read these:
- Code Complete //McConnell
- The mythical man-month //Brooks
- Software requirements //Wiegers
- Software estimation //McConnell
- Systemantics //Gall
I developed a pretty good picture of how to write software in such a way that it is easier to understand and maintain.
Besides that, I've also been exposed to coding style guidelines promoted by certain communities (ex: Python's PEP8).
This book also briefly discusses topics related to user experience and human-computer interaction - these ideas were discussed in much greater detail in books such as:
- Psychology of everyday things //Norman
- Things that make us smart //Norman
- The humane interface //Raskin
- and in the HIGs for Windows, OS X, GNOME and KDE
Basically, I would probably give it more stars if I read it before either of the items listed in this review.
One of the parts I found useful was the taxonomy of defects, you can use it as a checklist when conducting code reviews and thinking about your systems.
Having previously read these:
- Code Complete //McConnell
- The mythical man-month //Brooks
- Software requirements //Wiegers
- Software estimation //McConnell
- Systemantics //Gall
I developed a pretty good picture of how to write software in such a way that it is easier to understand and maintain.
Besides that, I've also been exposed to coding style guidelines promoted by certain communities (ex: Python's PEP8).
This book also briefly discusses topics related to user experience and human-computer interaction - these ideas were discussed in much greater detail in books such as:
- Psychology of everyday things //Norman
- Things that make us smart //Norman
- The humane interface //Raskin
- and in the HIGs for Windows, OS X, GNOME and KDE
Basically, I would probably give it more stars if I read it before either of the items listed in this review.
One of the parts I found useful was the taxonomy of defects, you can use it as a checklist when conducting code reviews and thinking about your systems.
September 14, 2012
I started this on vacation in 2010, so it seems only fitting that I finished it while on vacation this year. A year to read a book is not my norm...
This book would be good for organizations which have not yet started the process of reviewing their own defect data and don't have a strategy or eye towards how to improve. I found may good confirmations of behaviors which I have already put in place in my organization, but I didn't find a lot of new ideas to move forward with. It's not a bad book at all, it just didn't offer me the next steps I was hoping to find.
This book would be good for organizations which have not yet started the process of reviewing their own defect data and don't have a strategy or eye towards how to improve. I found may good confirmations of behaviors which I have already put in place in my organization, but I didn't find a lot of new ideas to move forward with. It's not a bad book at all, it just didn't offer me the next steps I was hoping to find.
July 17, 2016
a thorough and useful review of all of the modern defect prevention techniques. I have used suites of automated testing tools, which I found to be really useful during large development projects. And I have facilitated regular code-reviews by my team. But my experience stopped there. A lot of the more recent ideas, like scenario voting, UI walkthroughs, were new to me. So good to know that the field has moved on.
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