The Laws of Software Process

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The Advent of Agile

and validating it, in reality, as we have seen, both types of phases are really

concerned with knowledge acquisition. The major difference between the

phase types concerns the different kinds of knowledge being acquired, the

source of that knowledge, and the processes used to discover and validate

the knowledge. Another significant difference is in the target repository for

the knowledge acquired. In the construct phases up to the activity of cod-

ing, the target is usually a paper document of some sort. In the construct

phase of coding, the knowledge repository target is mostly the code itself,

although it may include book-form documentation (which is sometimes

embedded in the code, of course). While in the unit and system test ...