January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
11h 34m
English
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Aiming for the Right Target
Most software is designed for the development lab or the testers in the QA department. It is designed and built to pass tests such as, “The customer’s first and last names are required, but the middle initial is optional.” It aims to survive the artificial realm of QA, not the real world of production.
Software design today resembles automobile design in the early ’90s—disconnected from the real world. Cars designed solely in the cool comfort of the lab looked great in models and CAD systems. Perfectly curved cars gleamed in front of giant fans, purring in laminar flow. The designers inhabiting these serene spaces produced designs that were elegant, sophisticated, clever, fragile, unsatisfying, and ultimately short-lived. ...