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| Introduction | |
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| Why We Wrote This Book | |
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| Software Tools Enable Big Productivity Gains | |
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| Along Comes CASE | |
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| Little CASE's Larger History | |
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| Why Perl Is Good for Software Engineering Tools | |
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| Testing Too | |
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| Software Development Processes and Prototyping | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Your Friends Along the Way | |
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| Equipped Better | |
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| Why Perl? | |
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| What Is Perl? | |
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| Why Is Perl Useful for Rapid Prototyping? | |
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| "Functional quickly" | |
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| "Easy to modify" | |
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| "A working model written in a fourth-generation language" | |
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| "Always rewritten in a procedural language for implementation" | |
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| "Always discarded" | |
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| "Something that models human interfaces to computers" | |
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| "A miniature model of a proposed system" | |
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| "A model used to determine design correctness" and "A quick way to approximate a problem solution" | |
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| "Always used with 'live' data" | |
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| How Perl Stacks Up | |
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| Perl Beats the Combined Forces | |
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| Converting Existing Scripts to Perl | |
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| Really Learning Perl | |
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| Prototyping with Perl | |
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| Why Prototype? | |
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| Unknowns in Customer Requirements | |
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| Unknowns in Technology | |
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| Unknowns in Interfaces | |
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| The Waterfall Development Model | |
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| The Spiral Model | |
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| Structured Rapid Prototyping | |
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| Object-Oriented Analysis and Design | |
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| Other Development Methodologies | |
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| Prototyping Methods | |
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| Risks of Prototyping | |
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| The General Case of Prototyping | |
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| Requirements Analysis | |
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| Design | |
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| Implementation and Test | |
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| The Final Spin Cycle | |
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| Case History: Prototyping Power Estimation | |
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| Productivity Tools | |
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| Generic Tags File Generator Tool | |
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| Reuse Library System | |
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| Documentation Extraction Tool | |
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| Reuse Browser | |
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| AutoDoc | |
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| Code Generators | |
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| Command-Line Processing and Help Code Generator | |
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| Test Fixtures | |
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| Stretch Yourself on Productivity Tools | |
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| Software Metrics with Perl | |
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| Why Metrics? | |
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| What Are Software Metrics? | |
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| Counting Lines of Code | |
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| Halstead's Metrics | |
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| McCabe's Metric | |
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| Using Software and Other Metrics | |
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| Misusing Metrics | |
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| Metrics, Management, and Misconception | |
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| Not in My Code | |
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| Look What I've Done | |
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| Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics | |
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| Those Who Live By The Books... | |
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| Taken as Directed | |
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| Stretch Yourself on Software Metrics | |
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| Configuration Management | |
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| The How and Why of Configuration Management | |
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| Two Ways of Managing Versions | |
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| Revision Control System (RCS) Basics | |
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| Jumpstarting Revisions | |
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| Viewing History | |
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| How Far Does It Take Us? | |
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| Identifying Object Files | |
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| Automatic History | |
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| Handling Systems or Packages | |
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| Another Option | |
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| RCS Perl Scripts | |
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| Smart ci and co Tools | |
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| Problem Reporting | |
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| Stretch Yourself on Configuration Management | |
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| Perl Quick Tour | |
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| Perl Data Types | |
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| Variables | |
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| Literals | |
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| Basic Syntax | |
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| Subroutines | |
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| Packages | |
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| Operators | |
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| Regular Expressions | |
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| Special Variables | |
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| Perl Formatting Capabilities | |
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| Wrapping Up | |
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| Portable Perl | |
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| Toolkit Libraries | |
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| Langdef File Format and Access Routines | |
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| Langdef Regular Expressions | |
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| Langdef Capabilities | |
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| Langdef Routines | |
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| Routines Found in main Package | |
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| Useful Routines Found in "Langdef" Package | |
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| The Perl Forms System | |
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| What is a Form? | |
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| Defining a Form | |
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| Attributes Common to All Fields | |
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| Function Keys | |
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| Text Editing in Fields | |
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| Using Text Fields | |
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| Using Hidden Text Fields | |
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| Using Cyclic Fields | |
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| Using Enumerated Fields | |
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| Using the Forms System | |
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| Software Engineering with Perl Scripts | |
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| Productivity Tools | |
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| Tags.pl | |
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| doc_builter.pl | |
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| doc_browser.pl | |
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| AutoDoc.pl | |
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| Software Metrics with Perl | |
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| countlines.pl | |
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| halstead.pl | |
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| mccabe.pl | |
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| Configuration Management | |
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| smart_diff.pl, smart_ci.pl, smart_co.pl, send-pr.pl | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| GNU General Public License | |