A series of blogs for my review of Dave Farley’s amazing Modern Software Engineering book.
136 – Review: Modern Software Engineering, What is Engineering?
#begin So what is engineering? We all know that software developers like to borrow analogies and metaphors from other fields like: software architecture being borrowed from civil engineering. It’s often difficult to explain what the engineering part of SE means...
135 – Review: Modern Software Engineering, What is Software Engineering?
#begin David provides us with his definition of Software Engineering (SE) in this chapter: Software engineering is the application of an empirical, scientific approach to finding efficient, economic solutions to practical problems in software. When I read this it...
133 – Review: Modern Software Engineering, Introduction
#begin During my summer vacation in 2022 I read David Farley’s book called Modern Software Engineering – Do what works to build better software faster. It was a truly amazing read but I never got the time to write an actual review for it. Now with the recent rebrand...