Decline And Fall Of The American Programmer

Yourdon, Edward

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Synopsis

Argues that increasing international competition will result in unemployment for American programmers, outlines the causes, and suggests a solution in the exploitation of key software technologies

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From the Publisher

All over the world, software development organizations are grappling with staggering problems of productivity and quality. But while most organizations see the current situation as a problem, a few--the "world- class" software organizations--see it as an opportunity, and have publicly commited to bringing about ten-fold improvements by the mid-1990s.

From the Back Cover

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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