{"id":9222,"date":"2013-02-01T22:39:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T04:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9222"},"modified":"2013-02-02T12:51:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T18:51:39","slug":"why-we-should-build-software-like-we-build-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9222","title":{"rendered":"Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Architects draw detailed plans before a brick is laid or a nail is hammered. Programmers and software engineers don\u2019t. Can this be why houses seldom collapse and programs often crash?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com.edgesuite.net\/opinion\/2013\/01\/code-bugs-programming-why-we-need-specs\">Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses | Wired Opinion | Wired.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This analogy made me laugh because software doesn&#8217;t have to fight gravity or -20F temperatures or whatever else planet Earth has in store for a physical structure.\u00a0 The gist of this article however seems to be that every software project should start with and needs a solid foundation of requirements.\u00a0 Shout out to system engineering!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an interesting comment from <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/story\/13\/02\/01\/1451223\/is-brogramming-killing-requirements-engineering\">slashdot<\/a> and a shout out to awk.<\/p>\n<div id=\"comment_body_42761583\">\n<blockquote><p>If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.<br \/>\nGerald Weinberg<\/p>\n<p>Trivia: Gerald Weinberg is the &#8220;w&#8221; in awk. Sadly, things haven&#8217;t changed much since back when.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nDave<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Architects draw detailed plans before a brick is laid or a nail is hammered. Programmers and software engineers don\u2019t. Can this be why houses seldom collapse and programs often crash? via Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9222\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[486,182,684,183],"class_list":["post-9222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-process","tag-requirements","tag-software-architecture","tag-system-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9224,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9222\/revisions\/9224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}