Do Programmers Meet Evolutionary Requirements?

• Design space is all possible design documents
• Algorithms create movement through design space
• Simple minded repetitive procedure
• Incremental change to adjacent documents
• "Fitness plane"
• "Cranes" accelerate movement through design space
• Sex and genetic engineers
• Baldwin effect and patterns
• Evolutionary prototyping and smart people
• Moving through design space: "Forced Moves" and "Smart Moves"
• There is only one design space

References

• Brooks, Fred. No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering. IEEE Computer, Vol. 20, No. 4, April 1987, pp. 10-19.
• Dennett, Daniel. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. Simon and Schuster, 1995.