In the previous post I talked about areas of software development where data is at least as important as behavior in the system design. Object oriented practitioners will contend that behavior is the most natural way of designing a system, and will give a number of examples where it works and the data-centric approach doesn’t….
Due to the importance of object oriented design in software engineering, most developers believe that objects are the holy grail of software systems. However, despite the usefulness of interfaces provided by objects, I believe that there is something even more basic that we should look for when designing a system. To see this, we may…
Second system syndrome is term coined to characterize software development groups that enter into the dangerous sport of rewriting an existing piece of software. It usually happens when someone, feeling that the current system is not good enough, believes that it is would be easier to abandon the current code base and give it a…