Software Development: Building Reliable Systems
Software Development: Building Reliable Systems
ISBN: 0130812463
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 1998
Pages: 193
Pages: 193
Authors: Marc Hamilton
- 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
Software Development: Building Reliable Systems
ISBN: 0130812463
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 1998
Pages: 193
Pages: 193
Authors: Marc Hamilton