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Size and effort is all what matters eventually :-). Estimation of work is really a tricky job. Here are a few resources I think a good start point to gather estimation techniques: Books and papers o Brooks, F., The Mythical Man Month, Addison-Wesley o COCOMO II Model Definition Manual, University of Southern California, 1991 (for more information visit \\.sunset.usc.edu/cse/) o Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Inc., Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology, IEEE Std 610.12-1990,...
Good readings: Introduction to Great Design:http://www.joelonsof... What is Design?http://www.joelonsof...
I have been quite off of the blog scene here for a while. The product I was working on has been released, a time for a breather now and so, starting on a lighter vein, here are some interesting trivia about names : -): ADOBE> This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock. APPLE COMPUTERS> It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers...
Reverse Engineering:A method of recreating software system components for which the source code is missing, out of date, or is otherwise not in agreement with existing components. Disassemblers and decompilers are examples of Reverse Engineering Tools.www.users.qwest.net/~... The process of analyzing an existing system to identify its components and their interrelationships, and to create representations of the system in another form or at a higher level of abstraction (Dictionary.com).\\.rigi.cs...
Another good work done by Vamseedhar . He has moved Interview Questions to a new dedicated site with comments option and no registration required and the url is http://www.geekinterview.com/. Check this out.
Vamseedhar has been doing a great job, first with http://www.exforsys.com/ and now, he has come up with http://www.itquestionbank.c... its a site with different ebooks, tutorials, articles, code samples, ceritifcation questions etc. Good job done. Check out this site
Check out this site, a good compilation of Tech Articles, Question Bank, Career Articles, Interview Notes etc.:http://www.exforsys.com/
Check this out -> TechTarget's 'Paul Gillin' offers top 10 trends to watch in 2005:http://whatis.techtarg
Check out Joel Spolsky’s (Fog Creek Software, Inc) advice for Computer Science Students: http://www.joelonsoftware.c... Here are Joel's Seven Pieces of Advice for Computer Science College Students: Learn how to write before graduating. Learn C before graduating. Learn microeconomics before graduating. Don't blow off non-CS classes just because they're boring. Take programming-intensive courses. Stop worrying about all the jobs going to India. No matter what you do,...
By Trina Mukherjee in \\.rediff.com Illustrations By Dominic Xavier http://specials.rediff.com/... Here are the mistakes one can make while deciding about a suitable career. 1. Going by scores This is the most common and biggest mistake one can make. "Many factors determine one's choice of career -- aptitude, personality, interests and skills -- apart from scoring high marks in one subject or the other. You cannot let your one-time marks decide your whole future. 2. Succumbing...
What makes a good tester Check out the following writeups by experts on the topic 'what makes a good tester': By Boris Beizer: http://www.sqatester.com/qa... Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.c... Harry Robinson: http://www.stickyminds.com/... Rob Davis: http://www.robdavispe.com/f... By Michael Hunter: http://blogs.msdn.com/micah...
Interesting! Check this out: http://blameindiawatch.blog... keeps a track on ‘Blame India’ news :-)
Check out this compilation on CSTE Exam details and preparation strategy by Siva Rama Krishna: http://geekswithblogs.net/s
Now, this is really interesting, Michael Swanson (now with Microsoft) built a cardboard cutout of himself and sent it along with his resume as the “model Microsoft employee” to Redmond. Quite an innovatie idea :-) and he did get invited for an interview with Microsoft and got selected too:-). Check this out: http://weblogs.asp.net/mswa...
“Methods and Tools” is a pretty good on-line magazine on software development, testing and management: http://www.methodsandtools.... Past issues can be downloaded from the following location (it's free): http://www.methodsandtools....mt/download.html
Quality magazine's Top 100 Quality Plant list are impressive companies that lead their respective industries. They strive to balance quality issues with customer demands for today's and tomorrow's business environments. The article can be accessed at: http://www.qualitymag.com/C... Following are the top 5 companies that improve processes, empower workers and satisfy customers: 1. General Electric2. General Motors3. Honeywell 4....
One of my friends forwarded this link to me which have a compilation of tutorial links on the web and it looks really a very good compilation,check it out: http://stommel.tamu.edu/~ba
Alan Cullison, a journalist, covered the events in Afghanistan for Wall Street Journal in late 2001. Cullison was offered to buy a bunch of computers from a local Al-Qaeda office on the day Kabul fell. Cullison bought an IBM desktop and a Compaq laptop for $1100 and copied the contents before submitting the same to CIA agents in Afghanistan. Cullison shares some of the electronic messages in Atlantic Monthly. It has interesting trivia about Al-Qaeda's financial operations and their involvement in...
This free Function Point Training Manual provides a step by step instruction on how to count function points, can be downloaded from: http://www.ifpug.com/Functi... For any difficulty downloading the manual, send a mail to: david@softwaremetrics.com
"Harvey Roy Divinagracia" has designed a Function Point Calculator, this can be accessed at:http://www.engin.umd.umi
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