http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:39:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2011/03/making-junit-4-8-2-tangle-free-%e2%80%93-a-possible-solution/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2011/03/making-junit-4-8-2-tangle-free-%e2%80%93-a-possible-solution/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:03:08 +0000 Paul O'Reilly http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/?p=337 Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2011/03/making-junit-4-8-2-tangle-free-%e2%80%93-a-possible-solution/feed/ 0 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2008/12/software-erosion-and-package-tangles/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2008/12/software-erosion-and-package-tangles/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:26:30 +0000 Ian Sutton http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/?p=158 dzone_url = "http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2008/12/software-erosion-and-package-tangles/";My recent post on architectural erosion in the findbugs code-base was generally well received, but there were some skeptical voices. In a comment, Emeric questioned whether cyclic dependencies at the package level are anything more than a smell (if that). … Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2008/12/software-erosion-and-package-tangles/feed/ 4 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2008/11/software-erosion-findbugs/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2008/11/software-erosion-findbugs/#comments Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:23:08 +0000 Ian Sutton http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/?p=131 dzone_url = "http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2008/11/software-erosion-findbugs/";My particular area of interest in software these days is the importance of levels of abstraction above the raw code. In Java, the most natural place for these to manifest themselves is through the package structure (though this is certainly … Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2008/11/software-erosion-findbugs/feed/ 15 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2007/08/package-design-matters-part-1/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2007/08/package-design-matters-part-1/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:16:54 +0000 Chris Chedgey http://headway.structure101.com/blog/?p=11 dzone_url = "http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2007/08/package-design-matters-part-1/";Java packages are often used like file-system folders to organize source. But source files differ from “normal” files in that they are highly inter-dependent. Considering this interdependence as a package hierarchy evolves can have significant productivity benefits. Packages as Folders … Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2007/08/package-design-matters-part-1/feed/ 1 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2007/06/martin-fowler-the-design-pseudo-graph/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2007/06/martin-fowler-the-design-pseudo-graph/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:12:19 +0000 Chris Chedgey http://headway.structure101.com/blog/?p=20 Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2007/06/martin-fowler-the-design-pseudo-graph/feed/ 0 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/11/devx-review-of-structure101/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/11/devx-review-of-structure101/#comments Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:54:33 +0000 Chris Chedgey http://headway.structure101.com/blog/?p=23 Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/11/devx-review-of-structure101/feed/ 2 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/10/complexity-debt-dont-fix-it-keep-a-lid-on-it/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/10/complexity-debt-dont-fix-it-keep-a-lid-on-it/#comments Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:55:31 +0000 Chris Chedgey http://headway.structure101.com/blog/?p=24 dzone_url = "http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/10/complexity-debt-dont-fix-it-keep-a-lid-on-it/";So you just discovered that your code-base has racked up a whole load of complexity debt. This  maybe explains why progress seems so painfully slow lately. You briefly think of suggesting a major complexity-reducing refactoring effort. This will delay the … Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/10/complexity-debt-dont-fix-it-keep-a-lid-on-it/feed/ 2 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/10/structure101-v2-goes-ga-today/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/10/structure101-v2-goes-ga-today/#comments Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:09:18 +0000 Chris Chedgey http://headway.structure101.com/blog/?p=25 Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/10/structure101-v2-goes-ga-today/feed/ 0 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/tracking-complexity-debt/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/tracking-complexity-debt/#comments Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:07:26 +0000 Chris Chedgey http://headway.structure101.com/blog/2006/09/tracking-complexity-debt/ dzone_url = "http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/tracking-complexity-debt/";Un-monitored, the complexity of a code-base increases with its size. Jboss and Struts are perfect examples. However monitoring complexity helps you keep complexity debt under control, or even down to zero. If you publish the last couple of years worth … Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/tracking-complexity-debt/feed/ 0 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/manage-complexity-like-debt/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/manage-complexity-like-debt/#comments Thu, 07 Sep 2006 06:26:00 +0000 Chris Chedgey http://headway.structure101.com/blog/2006/09/manage-complexity-like-debt/ dzone_url = "http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/manage-complexity-like-debt/";Ben Hosking writes in Managing Complexity – The aim of Designing Code that: “The most important part of design is managing complexity“ I like the simplicity of that. What happens if you don’t manage complexity. Well, it starts to cost. … Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/manage-complexity-like-debt/feed/ 3