James Noble

How Much Up-Front? A Grounded Theory of Agile Architecture

2016

Abstract—The tension between software architecture and agility is not well understood by agile practitioners or re-searchers. If an agile software team spends too little time designing architecture up-front then the team faces increased risk and …

Operators and precedence in programming languages

2015

An incorrect understanding of operators and precedence can create bugs in programs. The purpose of this study is to explore programmers understanding, interpretation and perception of operators and precedence issues. Parentheses have the highest precedence …