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Finite State Machines: How to Enhance Software Testing

DZone

Finite state machines (FSMs) offer a solution by modeling system behavior as states and transitions, a useful tool that can help software engineers understand software behavior and design effective test cases. This article explores the pros and cons of FSMs via simple examples.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. So we need to make it part of everything we do.

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Software engineering for machine learning: a case study

The Morning Paper

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., More specifically, we’ll be looking at the results of an internal study with over 500 participants designed to figure out how product development and software engineering is changing at Microsoft with the rise of AI and ML. ICSE’19.

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A Note to Business Leaders on Software Engineering

Strategic Tech

Software developers are interchangeable. A software developer with a computer science degree will produce the same quality of work as any other software developer with a computer science degree. Productivity of software teams, over the short and long-term, can vary by many orders of magnitude. What do I measure?

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Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution

The Morning Paper

Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution , Lehman, Proc. As computers play an ever larger role in society and the life of the individual, it becomes more and more critical to be able to create and maintain effective, cost-effective, and timely software. On programming, projects, and products. IEEE, 1980.

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Introducing Co-Op Program Intern Tabreek Somani #IamTasktop

Tasktop

Each year, Tasktop facilitates its Co-Op program, which hosts students from various colleges and universities to work on different projects and develop experiential learning that will prepare them for a career supporting technology firms. Software Engineer on the Viz team. Pallavi Kain, Sr. Tabreek Somani Co-Op Intern. (0:18)

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Introducing Co-Op Program Participant Tabreek Somani #IamTasktop

Tasktop

Each year, Tasktop facilitates its Co-Op program, which hosts students from various colleges and universities to work on different projects and develop experiential learning that will prepare them for a career supporting technology firms. Software Engineer on the Viz team. Pallavi Kain , Sr.