Introduction to Cleanroom software development 

Next / Previous / Shipman's Home Sweet Homepage / Site map Introduction to Cleanroom software development I thought that after three decades of programming for a living I would eventually stop writing ... buggy code. Well, yes and no. I made a lot fewer, but there were still a few embarrassments. Then my good friend and colleague, Dr. Allan Stavely of the Computer Science Department here at New Mexico Tech, got an NSF grant to study a new methodology called Cleanroom Software Development. Since this intensive class, he has twice taught a 3-hour course in the methodology, and I got to take it in the spring of 1994. At this writing (in the fall of 2002), I have embraced this style in all my coding projects, large and small. Almost all this coding has used Python, with some Icon, a little emacs Lisp, and even some XSLT. My strong feeling is that this is the way to go, and I will never go back to my older, sloppier, bug-prone ways of developing code. The best source for practicing the method i   [More...] [Less...]