• DocumentCode
    1460448
  • Title

    Unusable Software Is Useless, Part 2

  • Author

    Buschmann, Frank

  • Author_Institution
    Siemens Corporate Technology
  • Volume
    28
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    100
  • Lastpage
    102
  • Abstract
    In this installment, I turn my attention to the internals of software-centric systems, since usability is also of prime importance for the architectures we create. Ultimately, unusable architectures can lead to architecture drift, complex code, and other consequences that are costly to fix.
  • Keywords
    software architecture; architecture drift; complex code; software-centric systems; usability; Computer architecture; Economics; Pragmatics; Software; Testing; Usability; Usability; design by contract; design for testability; design to skills; developer habitability; interface economy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Software, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0740-7459
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MS.2011.48
  • Filename
    5720717