Peter Miller (software Engineer)

Peter Miller (16 October 1960 – 27 July 2014) was an Australian software developer who wrot
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He also proposed a set of "laws" for modern software engineering and architecture in the early 1990s:

Miller's laws are:

# The number of interactions within a development team is O(n!) without controlled access to the baseline. If the development team does have controlled access to the baseline, interactions can be reduced to near O(n), where n is the number of developers and/or files in the source tree, whichever is larger.
# The baseline MUST always be in working order.
# The software build/construction process can be reduced to a directed, acyclical graph (DAG).
# It is necessary to build a rigid framework of selected components (aka the top level aegis design).
# The framework should not do any real work, and should instead delegate everything to external components. The external components should be as interchangeable as possible.
# The framework should use the Strategy pattern for most complex tasks.

References

External links

Debian Project mourns the loss of Peter MillerArchive of Miller's website including software, books, and papersMaintenance repository of Miller's Aegis on GitHubMaintenance repository of Miller's Cook tool on GitHubHome page of Miller's Aegis software configuration management tool on SourceForge

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Software engineers
Australian engineers
1960 births
2014 deaths