27 April 2010

PS: Software automation tools

In this episode Stephen Heffner explains how automation tools can improve both the efficiency, and quality, of software development. Code generation tools still aren't all that useful, but there has been a lot of progress in automation systems that check code for best practices and quality.

You can check out Stephen's company (which makes software automation systems) at http://www.pennington.com/.



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