Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering Robert L. Glass
Publisher: addison-wesley

Glass, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002. I have just finished reading "Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering", by Robert L. The author quotes from The Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, by Robert L. We try to keep projects moving by using our creative facilities only to find that we, in fact, can't read anyone's mind and therefore guess incorrectly as to what exactly it is that we're building. In his book Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, Robert L. Those facts and fallacies are what this book is about. Glass cites from a research paper from 1968, that the best programmers can be up to 28 times better than the worst. Quite a funny book, very easy to read. FactsAndFallacies-Glass Robert L. Glass has been working in the computer industry for over 45 years in both academia and the aerospace industry. Keep your components simple and independent, and there is no end to the problems we can solve. Here are some common fallacies uttered by non-engineers in my presence:. [1] Complexity, A Guided Tour, by Melanie Mitchell, chapter 7 [2] Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, by Robert L. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, a great book by Robert Glass. What makes the reputation disturbing to me is that I know many software engineers personally, and they are generally a fun-loving, agreeable (if not opinionated), and entertaining bunch. Theres a problem with those factsand, as you might imagine, those fallacies.