Talk:Continuous design

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This article is inaccurate. Continuous design was not created by MartinFowler. It's also called "evolutionary design" or "incremental design," both of which were popularized by ExtremeProgramming. Continuous design is a possibly more accurate term because continuous design consists of designing continuously throughout software development rather than all up-front (in the WaterfallModel) or in bursts at the beginning of each iteration (as in the IterativeModel). It's characterized by constant TestDrivenDevelopment and Refactoring.

MartinFowler wrote a popular, and excellent, book called "Refactoring" as well as a popular article entitled "Is Design Dead?" that talked about continuous/evolutionary design. As Design column editor for IEEE, he published an article titled "Continuous Design" by Jim Shore (me). MartinFowler is certainly a person with close ties to continuous design, but it wouldn't be fair to say that he created it.

Hopefully this information will allow someone to flesh out the article a bit more. I don't have the energy to put this in proper encyclopedia form right now.  :)

• Done. And remember, you can type in your info onto the page and someone (like me) will make it more encyclopedic. Ziroby 22:53, 14 December 2005 (UTC)