Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering

Contents

Series Editor Foreword

Preface

About the Author

PART I Acceleration

Chapter 1 Art or Science?

1.1 Building a House

1.1.1 The Problem with Projects

1.1.2 The Problem with Phases

1.1.3 Dependencies

1.2 Growing a Garden

1.2.1 What Makes a Garden Grow?

1.3 Towards Engineering

1.3.1 Software as a Craft

1.3.2 Heuristics

1.3.3 Earlier Notions of Software Engineering

1.3.4 Moving Forward with Software Engineering

1.4 Conclusion

Chapter 2 Checklists

2.1 An Aid to Memory

2.2 Checklist for a New Code Base

2.2.1 Use Git

2.2.2 Automate the Build

2.2.3 Turn On all Error Messages

2.3 Adding Checks to Existing Code Bases

2.3.1 Gradual Improvement

2.3.2 Hack Your Organisation

2.4 Conclusion

Chapter 3 Tackling Complexity

3.1 Purpose

3.1.1 Sustainability ...