Petre, Marian
(2009).
Insights from expert software design practice.
In: 7th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 24-28 August 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 233–242.
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Abstract
Software is a designed artifact. In other design disciplines, such as architecture, there is a well-established tradition of design studies which inform not only the discipline itself but also tool design, processes, and collaborative work. The 'challenge' of this paper is to consider software from such a 'design studies' perspective. This paper will present a series of observations from empirical studies of expert software designers, and will draw on examples from actual professional practice. It will consider what experts' mental imagery, software visualisations, and sketches suggest about software design thinking. It will also discuss some of the deliberate practices experts use to promote innovation. Finally, it will open discussion on the tensions between observed software design practices and received methodology in software engineering.
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Conference Item
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| Copyright Holders: |
2009 ACM |
| Extra Information: |
Published in Proceedings ESEC/FSE '09 Proceedings of the the 7th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering - ISBN 978-1-60558-001-2 -
DOI 10.1145/1595696.1595731
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| Keywords: |
expertise; design; empirical studies; software development
processes |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Mathematics, Computing and Technology > Computing & Communications |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: |
Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) |
| Item ID: |
25994 |
| Depositing User: |
Catherine McNulty
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| Date Deposited: |
06 Jan 2011 16:56 |
| Last Modified: |
11 Nov 2013 01:25 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/25994 |
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