Extreme programming explained: embrace change
Extreme programming explained: embrace change
Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices
Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices
The Tower of Babel did not fail
Proceedings of the ACM international conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications
The storyteller version control system: tackling version control, code comments, and team learning
Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Systems, programming, and applications: software for humanity
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Software systems evolve over time. Currently we do not do a good job of documenting this evolution. This essay discusses the need to better document software evolution and introduces the Moving Picture Metaphor. Source Control Management systems are more like collections of still photographs than moving pictures. Still photography is not ideal when trying to capture evolutional changes. Moving pictures do a much better job. A storyteller can use moving pictures to tell compelling stories that are easier to digest than traditional documentation. We can learn a great deal from watching stories that document a system's evolution.