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Fostering a time period where everyone can try any ideas to make software run faster?

performance teamwork

asked May 9, 2011 at 4:45

16 votes

3 answers

20k views

How can I practice design patterns and refactoring in a deliberate way? [closed]

asked May 26, 2011 at 5:01

14 votes

4 answers

2k views

Maintenance cost of SIMD programming code base

performance optimization estimation

asked Dec 13, 2014 at 23:30

14 votes

3 answers

731 views

How to deal with "software end-of-life" situations?

contract legacy sdlc software-obsolescence

asked Feb 20, 2011 at 14:36

12 votes

5 answers

2k views

How much redundancy/robustness should complex software implement?

performance exceptions code-smell complexity workaround

asked Nov 17, 2010 at 7:18

11 votes

3 answers

1k views

Preserving version control commit history vs Refactoring and Documentation

version-control history

asked Jan 24, 2011 at 5:19

11 votes

8 answers

2k views

What lessons did you learn from a project which nearly/actually failed due to bad multithreading? [closed]

failure frameworks multithreading

asked May 9, 2011 at 3:09

11 votes

4 answers

799 views

How to document and teach others "optimized beyond recognition" computationally intensive code?

documentation code-reviews optimization

asked Nov 24, 2011 at 1:40

10 votes

10 answers

594 views

How often is software speed evident in the eyes of customers?

optimization performance

asked Mar 7, 2011 at 6:40

7 votes

4 answers

4k views

What is a "task pool"?

terminology parallelism

asked Nov 8, 2010 at 6:02

7 votes

4 answers

2k views

Is performance engineering a different specialization from general software development?

productivity performance division-of-labor role

asked May 8, 2011 at 16:36

7 votes

3 answers

2k views

Can software performance monitoring/profiling be automated to a high degree, as in unit testing?

performance test-automation

asked May 8, 2011 at 17:16

7 votes

5 answers

1k views

Does profiling without benchmarking lead to micro-optimization?

performance terminology profiling benchmarking

asked May 8, 2011 at 22:53

7 votes

1 answer

224 views

Private interfaces within a package

object-oriented interfaces component

asked Jan 17, 2012 at 5:58

7 votes

1 answer

4k views

What is the nicest (user-friendliest) way to tell a user about "Access Denied" error?

user-experience error-messages access-control

asked Feb 3, 2013 at 6:35

6 votes

1 answer

791 views

How to apply OOP, SOLID principles and Design Patterns in a library which does parallel processing without the caller's knowledge?

performance clean-code

asked May 8, 2011 at 23:39

6 votes

4 answers

554 views

Not Invented Here - what does it take to not succumb to it?

code-reuse

asked Dec 9, 2010 at 7:41

5 votes

5 answers

495 views

An alternative to requiring red in TDD: reverting code change?

optimization tdd

asked May 8, 2011 at 15:33

5 votes

4 answers

232 views

How do I report software vulnerabilities found in an open source library that are widely used but have a dilapidated team structure?

open-source security ethics

asked Oct 18, 2010 at 5:13

4 votes

1 answer

1k views

What are the characteristics for a good report generation software for reporting and tracking software benchmarking results?

performance report-generation reporting information-presentation

asked May 9, 2011 at 1:14

4 votes

2 answers

161 views

How much configurability to give to users regarding concurrency?

optimization concurrency configuration user-control

asked Dec 26, 2010 at 5:03

3 votes

4 answers

174 views

How to deal with necessary workarounds in software?

workaround

asked Nov 15, 2010 at 3:10

2 votes

3 answers

1k views

Is RESTful API appropriate for services which are nearly computational in nature?

web-services rest

asked May 9, 2013 at 7:48

1 vote

1 answer

118 views

Optimizing programs by identifying and taking evaluation (calculation) shortcuts

optimization

asked Apr 22, 2011 at 4:44

1 vote

2 answers

661 views

When the current sprint consists of mostly spikes, should the sprint be shortened?

scrum

asked Apr 23, 2011 at 4:50

1 vote

1 answer

809 views

How to get good scenario coverage in performance benchmarks?

performance test-coverage

asked May 9, 2011 at 1:33

0 votes

1 answer

251 views

New sequential testing framework with the same rigor as xUnit?

unit-testing test-automation

asked Jul 29, 2011 at 4:58

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Fostering a time period where everyone can try any ideas to make software run faster?

How can I practice design patterns and refactoring in a deliberate way? [closed]

Maintenance cost of SIMD programming code base

How to deal with "software end-of-life" situations?

How much redundancy/robustness should complex software implement?

Preserving version control commit history vs Refactoring and Documentation

What lessons did you learn from a project which nearly/actually failed due to bad multithreading? [closed]

How to document and teach others "optimized beyond recognition" computationally intensive code?

How often is software speed evident in the eyes of customers?

What is a "task pool"?

Is performance engineering a different specialization from general software development?

Can software performance monitoring/profiling be automated to a high degree, as in unit testing?

Does profiling without benchmarking lead to micro-optimization?

Private interfaces within a package

What is the nicest (user-friendliest) way to tell a user about "Access Denied" error?

How to apply OOP, SOLID principles and Design Patterns in a library which does parallel processing without the caller's knowledge?

Not Invented Here - what does it take to not succumb to it?

An alternative to requiring red in TDD: reverting code change?

How do I report software vulnerabilities found in an open source library that are widely used but have a dilapidated team structure?

What are the characteristics for a good report generation software for reporting and tracking software benchmarking results?

How much configurability to give to users regarding concurrency?

How to deal with necessary workarounds in software?

Is RESTful API appropriate for services which are nearly computational in nature?

Optimizing programs by identifying and taking evaluation (calculation) shortcuts

When the current sprint consists of mostly spikes, should the sprint be shortened?

How to get good scenario coverage in performance benchmarks?

New sequential testing framework with the same rigor as xUnit?