Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Early Patent Protections -- 1 Code Made Tangible, 1945-1954 -- 2 From Antitrust to Patent Law at IBM, 1950-1966 -- 3 The Myth of the Non-Machine, 1964-1968...

Utilize a set of practical guidelines to help your Agile organization elevate software design quality as an important business driver to achieve customer satisfaction and, ultimately, higher revenue for your company. This is the first book to focus on a holistic quality view-what it is and how...

The information explosion has led inevitably to the need to design and implement software solutions to the new information environments faced by any person, group, company, and nation. Measuring software product quality has been neglected for a long time but now both producers and researchers...