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Usually we read about agile development practices that seem like no more than hand waving. If that's how you feel, you'll enjoy traveling this detailed design journey and seeing up close how test-driven development (TDD) and refactoring are done in an agile environment. This article is especially insightful because of the collaborative shepherding by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IEEE Software Editor in Chief Forrest Shull discuss the state of research in software engineering, focusing on empirical software engineering (ESE) and the expanded goal—question—metric strategies (GQM+Strategies) to tie specific measurements to the technical goals that they address. He also welcomes Girish Suryanarayana as the magazine's newest member of its Industry Advisory Board. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Magdin Stoica discusses the difference between beliefs, intuition and principles in a letter responding to Forrest Shull's From the Editor column "I Believe" in the January/February 2012 issue of IEEE Software. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]