Code Inflation
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چکیده
If you compare the state of software development tools today with those that were used in, say, the sixties, you do of course see many signs of improvement. Compilers are faster and better, we have powerful new integrated program development environments, and there are quite a few effective static source code analysis and logic model checking tools around today that help us catch bugs. All this is true, and it would have made a fabulous difference if our software applications still looked like they did in the sixties. But they don’t.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- IEEE Software
دوره 32 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015