''Decline and Fall of the American Programmer'' is a book written by Edward Yourdon in 1992. It was addressed to American programmers and software organizations of the 1990s, warning that they were about to be driven out of business by programmers in other countries who could produce software more cheaply and with higher quality. Yourdon claimed that American software organizations could only retain their edge by using technologies such as ones he described in the book. (These are listed in the chapter outline below.) Yourdon gave examples of how non-American—specifically Indian and

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ese—companies were making use of these technologies to produce high-quality software. In the follow-up book ''

Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer ''Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer'' is a book written by Edward Yourdon in 1996. It is the sequel to ''Decline and Fall of the American Programmer''. Synopsis In the original, written at the beginning of the 1990s, Yourdon warne ...

'', published in 1996, Yourdon reversed some of his original predictions based upon changes in the state of the software industry.

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*1. Introduction *2. The Lure of the Silver Bullet *3. Peopleware *4. Software Processes *5.

Software Methodologies In software engineering, a software development process is a process of dividing software development work into smaller, parallel, or sequential steps or sub-processes to improve design, product management. It is also known as a software devel ...

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CASE Case or CASE may refer to: Containers * Case (goods), a package of related merchandise * Cartridge case or casing, a firearm cartridge component * Bookcase, a piece of furniture used to store books * Briefcase or attaché case, a narrow box to c ...

*7. Software Metrics *8. Software Quality Assurance *9. Software Reusability *10.

Software Re-Engineering Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. At the lowest programming level, executable code consists o ...

*11. Future Trends *A. Software Technology in India *B. The Programmer's Bookshelf

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, , 1992; hardback * Prentice Hall, , June 16, 1993; paperback

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