I'm sorry.
Maybe I didn't express in the right way.
I'm looking for something with more practical code and a lower level.
Like, why
if (a > 0)
if ( b > 0)
do somenthing;
is faster then
if (a > 0 && b > 0)
do something;
I'm looking for C# compiler (csc.exe) material.
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:50 AM, VIKAS GARG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> I guess this was the data of that thread
>
>
> Hello there,
>
> It has been more than a year when this question comes to my mind and
> triggered ideas in my brain.. I was focused on my MSc studies in
> software engineering at the university and i was trying to figure out
> if software development should be considered as an activity of
> "engineering" ? or "craftsmanship" ?
>
> When we talk about engineering, the most important part of engineering
> is to provide models and verify the model based on quantified datas so
> that you can build tools based on your models...
>
> When we talk about craftsmanship, its more chaotic... We just don't
> know. It's about the craftsman who matters. If we have skilled people,
> our product is good... Timothy Lister and Thomas De Marco has a famous
> quote about this fact " It's not about technology, it's about
> people..." And I believe this statement is true.
>
> Is there any research about this proposition ? Definetely... Let's
> check out The Chaos Report from the Standish Group.. They say, 81
> Billion $ wasted because of cancelled or challanged software projects
> in USA.
>
> Wow. 81 Billion dollars. What was the necessary budget needed for US
> to overcome financial crisis ? 700 billion ?
>
> almost 1/7 part of it wasted for cancelled software projects...
>
> But why ? why ? why ?? If we are talking about engineering, this
> shouldn't happen. Can you imagine a construction project have the same
> failure rates ? No way ! But why software engineering ?
>
> We liked this question and told ourselves, "if it's about people, and
> yet software development is craftsmanship... why not focusing on
> dev`s ?"
>
> so we developed an addin integrated with visual studio called dev \
> efor which monitors your development progress in terms of code and
> effort metrics...
>
> It measures the Code Metrics and shows the progress ( trend ) of the
> projects you are working on and also, it measures effort metrics and
> let you answer such questions like "how much actual time spent while i
> was working on this particular project"
>
> We used this addin with some real life projects and the results are
> interesting... At avarage, a standard developer spents 1.5 hr to 3.5
> hr actively using visual studio. The maximum rate for a standart
> developer works in front of VS IDE is 40 minutes in a hour. If we
> consider a week, the avarage working hour in front of VS IDE is 1.5
> hrs.
>
> It's really interesting...
>
> We provide this addin free and it's in beta stage right now.. when we
> finish with it, this client add-in will also be free.
>
> What we aim to do is, if the community use this addin and share the
> results with everyone, we believe the academicians and involved
> engineers may identify the patterns and we can make better estimations
> with the data provided by the community. Therefore, we might
> contribute a little to eachother so that we might save that 81 billion
> dollars wasted money for good.
>
> You can download this addin from www.devefor.com/download and please
> let us know what you think... I am monitoring this forum.
>
> Thank you so much if you read so far : )
>
> Cheers !
>
> Ersan
>
> Please don't mind if I Get unable to provide relevant data
>
> when you will load this software this will ask you to download a file from
> microsoft and will open a page for you
> I think that is used for the optimization purpose
>
