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Software Development: Building Reliable Systems

ISBN: 0130812463
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 1998
Pages: 193

Authors: Marc Hamilton

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• Starting Page
• Table of Content
• Front Matter
• Acknowledgments
• Figures
• Tables
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Who Should Read This Book
• How to Read This Book
• Part I: Background
• Chapter 1. Ten Commandments of Successful Software Development
• 1 Thou shalt start development with software requirements
• 2 Thou shalt honor thy users and communicate with them often
• 3 Thou shalt not allow unwarranted requirements changes
• 4 Thou shalt invest up front in a software architecture
• 5 Thou shalt not confuse products with standards
• 6 Thou shalt recognize and retain your top talent
• 7 Thou shalt understand object-oriented technology
• 8 Thou shalt design web-centric applications and reusable components
• 9 Thou shalt plan for change
• 10 Thou shalt implement and always adhere to a production acceptance process
• Chapter 2. Software Development Has Always Been Difficult
• Software s Difficult Past
• The Year 2000 and Other Similar Problems
• It Is Hard to Structure Development Organizations for Success
• It Is Hard to Schedule and Budget Correctly
• It Is Hard to Select the Right Language and Development Tools
• It Is Hard to Select the Right OS and Hardware Platform
• It Is Hard to Accomplish a Production Rollout
• Chapter 3. Software Development Defined
• Software Life Cycle Overview
• Programming Paradigms
• Development Environments
• System Modeling Tools
• Software Architectures
• Chapter 4. Trends in Software Development
• The Universal DBMS
• Packaged ERP Software and its Customization
• Webtop Computing and Platform Independence
• Offshore Development
• Streamlining IT Infrastructure
• Part II: People
• Chapter 5. Building a Winning Software Development Team
• The Developer Shortage
• Software Development Job Descriptions
• Skills Tracking
• Behavioral Value Assessment Interview
• Your Software Development Partners
• Chapter 6. Organizing for Success
• The Dimensions of an Organization
• The Importance of Organizational Structure
• Streamlining Bureaucracy
• Sample Organizational Structures
• Chapter 7. Recruiting The Best Talent
• How to Staff for Growth
• What to Look for and How to Look for It
• Chapter 8. Retaining the Best Talent
• Compensation Philosophy
• Total Compensation Strategy
• HR Issues
• Chapter 9. Successfully Transitioning Developers
• Why Transition Developers
• Mainframe to Client-Server
• Mainframe to Web-Centric
• Client-Server to Web-Centric
• Procedural to Object-Oriented
• Language-Specific Transition Issues
• Does Transitioning Work?
• Project 1:
• Project 2:
• Project 3:
• Part III: Processes
• Chapter 10. The Software Life Cycle
• The Capability Maturity Model for Software
• Requirements Analysis and Definition
• System Architecture and Design
• Test Plan Design
• Implementation
• Validation and Testing
• Chapter 11. Rapid Application Development
• Why Another Methodology?
• Strategic Planning
• Product Definition
• Product Design
• Product Development
• Product Delivery
• Chapter 12. Software Productivity, Metrics, and Quality
• Code Metrics
• The Impact of Workspace on Productivity
• Make versus Buy
• The Value of Domain Knowledge
• The Importance of Standards
• Chapter 13. Web-Centric Production Acceptance
• The WCPA Chronicle
• The WCPA Questionnaire
• Personalized Communications
• Internal Support Agreements (ISAs)
• Roles and Responsibilities
• The WCPA Process
• What IT ShouldShould Not Support
• Part IV: Technology
• Chapter 14. Programming Language Features
• C
• C
• FORTRAN
• Ada
• BASIC
• Java
• COBOL
• LISP
• Scripting Languages (Perl, awk, Tcl, ksh)
• Chapter 15. Software Development Tools
• Interactive Development Environments
• GUI Development Tools and Libraries
• Database Tools
• Testing Tools
• Web Authoring Tools
• Code Editors
• Compilers
• Debuggers
• Code Analysis
• Performance Analysis Tools
• Component Tools
• CASE Tools
• Version and Baseline Control
• Chapter 16. Selecting Your Hardware Environment
• Developer Desktops
• Development Servers
• Network Infrastructure
• Disk Storage Architecture
• Single Function versus General Purpose Servers
• Architecture Issues Impacting Software Design
• Chapter 17. Component-Based Software Development
• The History of Components
• Components versus Object-Oriented Technology
• Role of Visual Programming in Component Software
• Component Development Using JavaBeans
• Chapter 18. Performance Optimization Techniques
• How Much Performance Do You Need?
• How to Identify Bottlenecks
• Chapter 19. Multithreaded Programming
• Multithreading Defined
• Synchronization Objects
• Chapter 20. Developing for the Web
• Web Browsers and Servers
• Proxy Web Servers
• CGI Programming
• Java Applets
• Enterprise JavaBeans
• Other Java Enterprise APIs
• Chapter 21. Distributed Applications with CORBA, RMI, and DCOM
• Distributed Objects Using CORBA
• A CORBA Client-Server Example
• DCOM Objects
• Distributed Java Applications with RMI
• Chapter 22. A Sneak Peak at Jini Technology
• Jini Infrastructure
• Discover and Join
• Lookup
• Distributed Programming
• Millennium versus Jini
• Appendix A. Software Development Frequently Asked Questions
• General Questions
• People Related Questions
• Process Related Questions
• Technology Related Questions
• Software History and Trivia Questions
• Appendix B. Java Coding Standard Template
• Introduction
• Source Files
• Naming Conventions
• White Space Usage
• Comments
• Documentation Comments
• Block Comments
• Single-line Comments
• Classes
• Class Body Organization
• Interfaces
• Interface Body Organization
• Statements
• Appendix C. Sample Internal Support Agreement (ISA)
• Root Authority
• Server Availability Hours
• Backups
• Support Responsibility
• Function of Each Server
• Special Requests
• Appendix D. How This Book Was Written
• Bibliography
• Glossary