patterns design

Periodically, someone asks for examples of "successful (or non-successful) uses of 'fill-in-the-blank' software engineering technology." In truth, this is a difficult, if not impossible, request to fulfill. Why? There are several reasons: - Small examples, which are easily understood, can be (and often are) handily dismissed as "toy" (as opposed to "real") applications. - It is difficult to justify the cost of a "large" (significant) test case (e.g., [Aron, 1969] and [Baker and Mills, 1973]). When "…

…differing domains (e.g., MIS) can assert that the example is irrelevant for their domains. - In the case of a technology which may be implemented using a number of different programming languages, the number of problems increases dramatically, e.g.: - Some will observe that the example uses a programming language which they do not, cannot, or will not use. Thus making the example worthless -- as far as they are concerned. Bibliography none