Last thursday I visited a presentation about Process Acceleration (PA) [1]. PA is a Business Change method that also uses separation of concerns: it separates the end result from anything else in the business process. The end result of the process is the success state, i.e. all employees correctly submitted their billing forms and all [...]

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In my last blog I already mentioned the role of software metrics in my graduation assignment. Software metrics are indicators for the quality of the source of a program. For example, one of the most well known metrics is McCabe’s cyclomatic complexity. This metric gives an indication of the complexity of a method or module/class. [...]

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One of my own pet projects is to create a neat ‘continuous integration’ solution for our development environment. It is my vision that developers should work on a central source repository (currently implemented by CVS) and building and testing (if possible) should be done automatically. This interest was sparked by an article by Martin Fowler [...]

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