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Desperately Seeking Metaphor

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Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering (XP 2005)

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This paper shows how System Metaphor delivers a coherent system of names that carry more information than unrelated names would.

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  1. Alcatel, Australia

    Ben Aveling

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  1. Informatik og Matematisk Modellering, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Lyngby

    Hubert Baumeister

  2. FlossLab s.r.l., viale Elmas, 142, 09122, Cagliari, Italy

    Michele Marchesi

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK

    Mike Holcombe

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Aveling, B. (2005). Desperately Seeking Metaphor. In: Baumeister, H., Marchesi, M., Holcombe, M. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering. XP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3556. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11499053_35

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