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Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development
by Scott L. Bain

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    Table of Contents

    00 - Introduction
    01 - Software as a Profession (Sample available here)
    02 - Out of the Closet - Patterns and Professionalism in Software Development
    03 - The Nature of Software Development (Sample available here)
    04 - Evolution in Code Stage 1
    05 - Introduction to Patterns
    06 - Building a Pyramid
    07 - Paying Attention to Qualities and Pathologies
    08 - Paying Attention to Principles and Wisdom (Chapter available here)
    09 - Paying Attention to Practices
    10 - Paying Attention to Disciplines - Unit Testing
    11 - Paying Attention to Disciplines - Refactoring
    12 - Test-Driven Development
    13 - Patterns and Forces
    14 - Emergent Design, a Case Study
    15 - A Conclusion: 2020
    Appendix A - Evolutionary Paths
    Appendix B - Overview of Patterns Used in the Examples
    Appendix C - The Principle of the Useful Illusion
    Appendix D - For Further Reading

    Errata:

    PageIssue
    64Figure 4.3 - The "uses" arrow between "LocalStatusSender" and "PagingStatusSender" should not be there
    77Figure 5.7 caption: "No room" should be "Now room"
    84The last line, "design to over-design", should be desire to over-design
    111In the box, the word safety appears twice in the wrong font
    1122nd to last line, "were so were" should be "were so"
    116Paragraph 8, final sentence says "drifted back to the right" when it should say "drifted back to the left"
    1483rd line from the bottom, missing closing parenthesis after i++
    1597th line, delete the prase "a function that is often problematic"
    208

    Second Code Example, third line from the end, MockDAO should be mockDAO

    211 A closing brace is missing from the code example at the bottom of the page
    230The "printReportLines" method and "calculateAverage" method should both take "ArrayList clines" as a parameter
    235I write "At the end of this chapter, I will suggest some books I have found to get started. ". That list is in an appendix at the end of the book, not the chapter
    243Figure 12.5, bottom right, box says "Strategy_V1Test" should be "Strategy_V2Test". Same on the previous page in Figure 12.4
    249Figure 12.7, case B - Third circle should say DecB rather than DecA appearing twice
    285Final paragraph, second sentence, "mange" should be "manage"
    286All references to "Card" or "Cards" should be "Chip" or "Chips"

    298

    Caption to Figure A.6b, the word "Comples" should be "Complex"
    323Figure B.12 - the first Handler should be "Handler1" rather than "Handler2" appearing twice
    326Figure B.12 - the Handlers should not have void return type
    343 Figure B.26 - "DateInputStream" should be "DataInputStream"

     

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