Flexible, Reliable Software : Using Patterns and Agile Development

✍ Scribed by Christensen, Henrik B

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 523
• Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC textbooks in computing
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

...This book brings together a careful selection of topics that are relevant, indeed crucial, for developing good quality software with a carefully designed pedagogy that leads the reader through an experience of active learning. The emphasis in the content is on practical goals-how to construct reliable and flexible software systems-covering many topics that every software engineer should have studied. The emphasis in the method is on providing a practical context, hands-on projects, and guidance on process. ... The text discusses not only what the end product should be like, but also how to get. Read more...

Abstract:

By describing practical stories, explaining the design and programming process in detail, and using projects as a learning context, the author helps readers understand why a given technique is required and why techniques must be combined to overcome the challenges facing software developers. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front cover
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Iteration 1: Basic Terminology
Chapter 1: Agile Development Processes
Chapter 2: Reliability and Testing
Chapter 3: Flexibility and Maintainability
Iteration 2: The Programming Process
Chapter 4: Pay Station Case
Chapter 5: Test-Driven Development
Chapter 6: Build Management
Iteration 3: The First Design Pattern
Chapter 7: Deriving Strategy Pattern
Chapter 8: Refactoring and Integration Testing
Chapter 9: Design Patterns --
Part I
Chapter 10: Coupling and Cohesion
Iteration 4: Variability Management and 3-1-2 Chapter 11: Deriving State PatternChapter 12: Test Stubs
Chapter 13: Deriving Abstract Factory
Chapter 14: Pattern Fragility
Iteration 5: Compositional Design
Chapter 15: Roles and Responsibilities
Chapter 16: Compositional Design Principles
Chapter 17: Multi-Dimensional Variance
Iteration 6: A Design Pattern Catalogue
Chapter 19: Facade
Chapter 20: Decorator
Chapter 21: Adapter
Chapter 22: Builder
Chapter 23: Command
Chapter 24: Iterator
Chapter 25: Proxy
Chapter 26:Composite
Chapter 27: Null Object
Chapter 28: Observer
Chapter 29: Model-View-Controller Iteration 7: FrameworksChapter 30: Introducing MiniDraw
Chapter 31: Template Method
Chapter 32: Framework Theory
Iteration 8: Outlook
Chapter 34: Systematic Testing
Part 9: Projects
Chapter 35: The HotGammon Project
Bibliography
Back cover

✦ Subjects

Computer software -- Development. Computer software -- Reliability.