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Towards a theory of software development expertise (acolyer.org)
27 points by jtloong on Dec 21, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


> In other news physicists are learning about the universe by sending out questionnaires to people with lots of experience living in the universe. https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/12/21/towards-a-theory-of-soft...


I think the most important sentence in this article is:

> The most frequently cited tasks that an expert should be good at were designing software architecture, writing source code, and analysing and understanding requirements.

But I think this is also missing verification of the requirements, which is writing tests and being able to ship reliable code. Step 1 is to make sure you understand the requirements, step 2 is writing good code, step 3 is shipping the code after verifying that all the requirements are met, and the quality of the product is good




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