The Essence of Software

ACM TechTalks
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Title: The Essence of Software (Or Why Systems Often Fail by Design, and How to Fix Them)
Date: December 1, 2021
Duration: 1 HR

SPEAKER
Daniel Jackson, Professor of Computer Science, MIT; ACM Fellow

MODERATOR
George Fairbanks, Software Engineer, Google

Registration Link

Software Projects: Software Design (Skillsoft Course, free for ACM Members)
Performance Engineering: Potential Performance Issues in Software Development (Skillsoft Course, free for ACM Members)
Software Development, Design and Coding: With Patterns, Debugging, Unit Testing, and Refactoring, Second Edition (Skillsoft Book, free for ACM Members)
Making Software (O’Reilly Book, free for ACM Members)
The Essence of Software Engineering: Applying the SEMAT Kernel (O’Reilly Book, free for ACM Members)

Additional Q&A with Daniel Jackson is available Q & A for ACM Tech Talk - Software Concept Design Forum

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What about the role played by clients who don’t actually know what they need, just what they think they want?

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What is the role of unit testing and test suite code coverage in the production of high quality software?

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Is considering form validation schemes would be helpful? what about applying the design patterns?

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