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- From: sullivan@cs.washington.edu (Kevin Sullivan)
- Subject: Re: Debugging the process
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.191524.27916@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
- References: <1992Dec30.185928.367@cs.rit.edu> <1992Dec31.112259.1@bigez>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 19:15:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.112259.1@bigez> dmmatt@bigez (Mike Mattix) writes:
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- > [stuff deleted]
- >
- >The only
- >improvements in accuracy and timeliness of systems in the last 20 years
- >can be traced directly back to technological breakthroughs not new
- >project management/software engineering procedures.
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- I sure wish I could judge whether or not to believe statements like this.
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- I don't mean to pick on this author particular, but to note that software
- engineering debates are unlikely to converge for as long as their quality
- remains at the level of such ex cathedra pronouncements. If studies on a
- topic have been done, we should reference them when making assertions like
- this one; if not, we should indicate our correspondingly low confidence in
- the truth of such claims.
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- Kevin Sullivan
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, FR-35
- University of Washington
- Seattle, WA 98195
-