Interesting presentation from Tools99 on improving code quality through Human Engineering.

The examples are a bit weak, and I suspect that the “conclusions” weren’t so much conclusions, but the starting point. But they’re good:

• Humans make mistakes (especially programmers)
• By “Human Engineering” the language various Sins of Omission, Confusion, and Sloth can be caught
• Human Engineering takes conscious effort:
  • Use Redundancy, Compartmentalization, Completeness Checks,
    Explicitness
• Anecdotal evidence that good human engineering can significantly reduce test and integration phase
• Much more experimentation and research is needed

[via Ziggy]