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The Tools of an Engineering Discipline
When I think about what a genuine engineering discipline for software should mean, I don’t think much in terms of specific tools, programming languages, processes, or diagramming techniques. Rather, I think of outcomes.
Any approach worth the name of software engineering must be built around our need to learn, to explore, and to experiment with ideas. Most importantly, if it doesn’t help us build better software faster, it is “fashion” rather than engineering. Engineering is the stuff that works; if it doesn’t work, we will change it until it does.
Although I may not be thinking of specific tools, that doesn’t mean there are none. This book is built on the idea that there are some intellectual “tools” ...
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