software-processes

What software development process do you use?

I have always used the agile Feature Driven Development process for developing software. What does everyone else use, and why do you prefer it? I prefer FDD because that's what I started with fresh out of college. In college, everything was very free-form and my "customer" was typically my professor, who might not have had much indust...

Why adopt a software development process?

Agile (SCRUM, XP, FDD, ...), Waterfall, RUP, ... Why would a small company bother adopting one in the first place. Why not just hack-away each project to completion (with a usual team size of 1~2). I'm preparing a short presentation against the argument but would like to hear what everyone thinks. ...

What are the good static code analysis plugins?

Are there any automated code review tools for Java? Especially plugins for Eclipse? The tool I expect is an automated code review plugin or tool that can automatically detect the problems in Code. ( Microsoft does this using OACR ).Plugins like Jupiter won't help because they are just peer review tools for eclipse. ...

Is Hackystat only academically interesting?

I stumbled across Hackystat and was surprised to see this project has been around since 2001 50 public releases pretty active development ...but there is not a single StackOverflow question about it. Does anyone make use of any of the sensors or of the system itself for non-academic, i.e. "real-world" reasons? Any experiences at all...

Google vs. Yahoo; Software process model

Does any one knows which software process models are used by Google and Yahoo. And What is the difference in Yahoo and Google's software processes? Thanks & Regards, Jay ...