Software Development Heuristics

Software Development Heuristics

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I already posted this to software engineering with little response perhaps
Ada people will help.
In an article in the European Jouranl of Engineering Education
(Vol 13, 3, 1988 p. 307ff) Billy V. Koen defines the engineering method as
"The use of engineering heuristics to cause the best change in a poorly 
understood situation within the available resources".  He goes on
to describe the kinds of heuristics;
	"simple rules of thumb"
	"factors of safety"
	"Heuristics that engineers use to keep risk within acceptable
	bounds".....

In a project I am working on I am trying to capture some of
the heuristics used by software developers.
If you can think of any that you personally use could you
please e-mail them to me... I will summarize if you like.

Thanks,
Pam Lawhead
The University of Mississippi
lawhead@sam.cs.olemiss.edu