Software Development Metrics are a notoriously difficult area, there exists a large allure of quantitative measurements that can be condensed into a top-level dashboard showing progress, plan alignment, effort , costs and so on. However, the unfortunate reality is that the collection and analysis of Software Development Metrics is difficult for a number of factors …
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UI Navigation – Android
Up vs. Back or in other terms hierarchy vs. chronology is one of the User Experience aspects touched upon in my post UML: Modelling User Interfaces Part 1 – Hierarchy and Navigation. The Android methodology for UI navigation has received some attention over the years and the largest change to date was brought in with …
UML: Aside – Completeness vs Clarity and other CvCs
One of the recurring issues I have experienced with UML, or more generally Model Driven Design is the continual struggle between definition and interpretation. One of the tenants of UML is to abstract upwards towards a level that avoids implementation specifics. However, this introduces the potential for a need of a “Leap of Faith”, something …
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Android Resource and the Eclipse switch Quick Fix
In the process of updating and refactoring an old Android project I unwittingly changed a Project configuration option (the “Is Library” option) that lead to my resource file being generated differently. E.g Before After A subtle change indeed but one that caused the following compiler error for each line case expressions must be constant expressions
C and C++ Preprocessor: warp, Clang and GCC
I belatedly came across the news regarding warp, a C and C++ preprocessor written by Walter Bright in a joint project with Facebook. This has been released under the Boost license and is available at https://github.com/facebook/warp. The Facebook blog makes the following statement with regards to improved efficiency over the GCC preprocessor Replacing gcc’s preprocessor …
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UML: Modelling User Interfaces Part 1 – Hierarchy and Navigation
This is the first post in a series that looks at the modelling of User Interface (UI) related software using UML. The main purpose of the post is to explore how we effectively model the navigation of a tree-like hierarchy, especially when considering the premise “In a tree structure there is one and only one …
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