Decline and Fall of the American Programmer - Softcover

Yourdon, Edward

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9780131919587: Decline and Fall of the American Programmer

Synopsis

An overview of software engineering principles, techniques, and tools that draws some controversial conclusions as to the direction of software engineering and the career prospects of today's programmers. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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According to Edward Yourdon, software development may soon move out of the U.S. into software factories in a dozen countries unless U.S. software organizations exploit the key software technologies examined in this new publication. Here Mr. Yourdon takes a close look at how U.S. companies can implement object oriented methods, CASE tools, software quality assurance, structured methods, software metrics, and re-engineering. For U.S. programmers, analysts, software engineers, and software development managers.

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