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Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development, Third Edition
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Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development, Third Edition

by Craig Larman
October 2004
Beginner to intermediate
736 pages
15h 38m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 35. Package Design

 

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

 
 --Seymour Cray

Introduction

If some package X is widely depended upon by the development team, it is undesirable for X to be very unstable (going through many new versions), since it increases the impact on the team in terms of constant version re-synchronization and fixing dependent software that breaks in response to changes in X (version thrashing).

This sounds—and is—obvious, but sometimes a team does not pay attention to identifying and stabilizing the most depended-upon packages, and ends up experiencing more version ...

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