Software Product Lines: Practices and Patterns: Practices and Patterns

Computers & Technology

Clements, Paul

Northrop, Linda

Programming

Addison-Wesley Professional

Product Description 
The Definitive, Practical, Proven Guide to Architecting Modern Software--Fully Updated with New Content on Mobility, the Cloud, Energy Management, DevOps, Quantum Computing, and More\nUpdated with eleven new chapters, 
Software Architecture in Practice, Fourth Edition, thoroughly explains what software architecture is, why it's important, and how to design, instantiate, analyze, evolve, and manage it in disciplined and effective ways.\nThree renowned software architects cover the entire lifecycle, presenting practical guidance, expert methods, and tested models for use in any project, no matter how complex. You'll learn how to use architecture to address accelerating growth in requirements, system size, and abstraction, and to manage emergent quality attributes as systems are dynamically combined in new ways.\nWith insights for utilizing architecture to optimize key quality attributes--including performance, modifiability, security, availability, interoperability, testability, usability, deployability, and more--this guide explains how to manage and refine existing architectures, transform them to solve new problems, and build reusable architectures that become strategic business assets.\nDiscover how architecture in uences (and is influenced by) technical environments, project lifecycles, business profiles, and your own practices 
Leverage proven patterns, interfaces, and practices for optimizing quality through architecture 
Architect for mobility, the cloud, machine learning, and quantum computing 
Design for increasingly crucial attributes such as energy efficiency and safety 
Scale systems by discovering architecturally significant influences, using DevOps and deployment pipelines, and managing architecture debt 
Understand architecture's role in the organization, so you can deliver more value\nRegister your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details. 
 About the Author 
Len Bass, an award-winning author and lecturer, has more than 50 years of advanced software experience, including 25 years at Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) Software Engineering Institute (SEI). He now teaches DevOps as an adjunct faculty member at CMU.\nDr. Paul Clements, VP of Customer Success with BigLever Software, helps organizations gain value from Product Line Engineering (PLE). As senior member of technical staff at SEI, he led advanced projects in PLE and software architecture.\nRick Kazman is Professor, University of Hawaii, and Visiting Researcher at SEI. His interests include software architecture, visualization, design, analysis, and economics. He co-created influential architecture analysis methods and tools, including SAAM, ATAM, CBAM, Dali, and Titan.

Software Architecture in Practice (SEI Series in Software Engineering)

Bass, Len

Kazman, Rick

Long a standard practice in traditional manufacturing, the concept of product lines is relatively new to the software industry. A software product line is a family of systems that share a common set of core technical assets, with preplanned extensions and variations to address the needs of specific customers or market segments. Software organizations of all types and sizes are discovering that when skillfully implemented, a product line strategy can yield enormous gains in productivity, quality, and time-to-market. Software Product Lines is the culmination of an intensive investigation, undertaken by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon, into how leading-edge software development organizations have "retooled" for product lines. With explanations of fundamental concepts further illuminated by real-world experience, this book spells out the technical issues involved in adopting a product line strategy, as well as the organizational and management issues that are so critical for success. In providing a comprehensive set of practices and patterns, this book defines and explores the key activities for software product line development and explains specific practice areas in engineering, technical management, and organizational management. Highlights include: <ul>
<li>The benefits of a software product line approach, including actual improvement data from industrial success stories </li>
<li>Methods to develop a reusable base of core assets and to develop products that utilize that core </li>
<li>Common problems paired with concrete solutions in the form of reusable software product pine patterns </li>
<li>Twenty-nine practice areas for successful implementation, including architecture definition,component development, configuration management, market analysis, and training </li>
<li>The product line technical probe for identifying technical and organizational weaknesses that could impede success </li>
</ul>
 Three detailed case studies from the industry lead you step by step through the process of developing and managing software product lines, illustrating potential pitfalls, creative solutions, and the ultimate rewards. Discussion questions, sidebars, and real-world anecdotes from the trenches reveal the collective wisdom of those on the front line of software product line ventures. 0201703327B09102001

Software Product Lines: Practices and Patterns

Northrop, Linda M.

Helps you decide what information to document and then, with guidelines and examples, shows you how to express an architecture in a form that everyone can understand. An important reference on the shelf of the software architect.

Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond

Garlan, David

Bachmann, Felix

Ivers, James

Little, Reed

Nord, Robert

Stafford, Judith

The foundation of any software system is its architecture, this text is intended to help architects determine what aspects of their architectures need improvement. The techniques put forward are based on actual practice in both government and industry development organizations.

Evaluating Software Architectures: Methods and Case Studies

Klein, Mark

peter-gordon

Computer Science

In Rawlsian Political Analysis: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Social Science, Paul Clements develops a new, morally grounded model of political and social analysis as a critique of and improvement on both neoclassical economics and rational choice theory. What if practical reason is based not only on interests and ideas of the good, as these theories have it, but also on principles and sentiments of right? The answer, Clements argues, requires a radical reorientation of social science from the idea of interests to the idea of social justice.According to Clements, systematic weaknesses in neoclassical economics and rational choice theory are due to their limited model of choice. According to such theories in the utilitarian tradition, all our practical decisions aim to maximize the satisfaction of our interests. These neo-utilitarian approaches focus on how we promote our interests, but Clements argues, our ideas of right, cognitively represented in principles, contribute independently and no less fundamentally to our practical decisions. The most significant challenge to utilitarianism in the last half century is found in John Rawls’s Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism, in which Rawls builds on Kant's concept of practical reason. Clements extends Rawls's moral theory and his critique of utilitarianism by arguing for social analysis based on the Kantian and Rawlsian model of choice. To illustrate the explanatory power of his model, he presents three detailed case studies: a program analysis of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, a political economy analysis of the causes of poverty in the Indian state of Bihar, and a problem-based analysis of the ethics and politics of climate change. He concludes by exploring the broad implications of social analysis grounded in a concept of social justice. “Paul Clements’s Rawlsian Political Analysis mounts an important intervention into the philosophy of the social sciences, challenging the tired fact/value, empirical/normative binaries that continue to impoverish social analysis. His insistence that social analysis must engage both facts and norms, the empirical and the normative, the good and the right, interest and principle—and that empirical social scientists must engage constructively on questions of autonomy and social justice—is noble and ultimately essential if social science is to justify its place in the years to come.” —Fonna Forman-Barzilai, University of California, San Diego

Rawlsian Political Analysis: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Social Science

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

University of Notre Dame Press

This award-winning book, substantially updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, introduces the concepts and best practices of software architecture--how a software system is structured and how that system's elements are meant to interact. Distinct from the details of implementation, algorithm, and data representation, an architecture holds the key to achieving system quality, is a reusable asset that can be applied to subsequent systems, and is crucial to a software organization's business strategy. Drawing on their own extensive experience, the authors cover the essential technical topics for designing, specifying, and validating a system. They also emphasize the importance of the business context in which large systems are designed. Their aim is to present software architecture in a real-world setting, reflecting both the opportunities and constraints that companies encounter. To that end, case studies that describe successful architectures illustrate key points of both technical and organizational discussions. Topics new to this edition include: <ul>
<li>Architecture design and analysis, including the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) </li> <li>Capturing quality requirements and achieving them through quality scenarios and tactics </li> <li>Using architecture reconstruction to recover undocumented architectures </li> <li>Documenting architectures using the Unified Modeling Language (UML)</li> <li>New case studies, including Web-based examples and a wireless Enterprise JavaBeans™ (EJB) system designed to support wearable computers</li> <li>The financial aspects of architectures, including use of the Cost Benefit Analysis Method (CBAM) to make decisions </li> </ul>
If you design, develop, or manage the building of large software systems (or plan to do so), or if you are interested in acquiring such systems for your corporation or government agency, use Software Architecture in Practice, Second Edition, to get up to speed on the current state of software architecture.

Software Architecture in Practice

“This new edition is brighter, shinier, more complete, more pragmatic, more focused than the previous one, and I wouldn’t have thought it possible to improve on the original. As the field of software architecture has grown over these past decades, there is much more to be said, much more that we know, and much more that we can reflect upon of what’s worked and what hasn’t—and the authors here do all that, and more.” —From the Foreword by Grady Booch, IBM Fellow Software architecture—the conceptual glue that holds every phase of a project together for its many stakeholders—is widely recognized as a critical element in modern software development. Practitioners have increasingly discovered that close attention to a software system’s architecture pays valuable dividends. Without an architecture that is appropriate for the problem being solved, a project will stumble along or, most likely, fail. Even with a superb architecture, if that architecture is not well understood or well communicated the project is unlikely to succeed. Documenting Software Architectures, Second Edition, provides the most complete and current guidance, independent of language or notation, on how to capture an architecture in a commonly understandable form. Drawing on their extensive experience, the authors first help you decide what information to document, and then, with guidelines and examples (in various notations, including UML), show you how to express an architecture so that others can successfully build, use, and maintain a system from it. The book features rules for sound documentation, the goals and strategies of documentation, architectural views and styles, documentation for software interfaces and software behavior, and templates for capturing and organizing information to generate a coherent package. New and improved in this second edition: <ul>
<li>Coverage of architectural styles such as service-oriented architectures, multi-tier architectures, and data models</li> <li>Guidance for documentation in an Agile development environment</li> <li>Deeper treatment of documentation of rationale, reflecting best industrial practices</li> <li>Improved templates, reflecting years of use and feedback, and more documentation layout options</li> <li>A new, comprehensive example (available online), featuring documentation of a Web-based service-oriented system</li> <li>Reference guides for three important architecture documentation languages: UML, AADL, and SySML</li> </ul>

Merson, Paulo

The award-winning and highly influential Software Architecture in Practice, Third Edition, has been substantially revised to reflect the latest developments in the field. In a real-world setting, the book once again introduces the concepts and best practices of software architecture—how a software system is structured and how that system’s elements are meant to interact. Distinct from the details of implementation, algorithm, and data representation, an architecture holds the key to achieving system quality, is a reusable asset that can be applied to subsequent systems, and is crucial to a software organization’s business strategy. The authors have structured this edition around the concept of architecture influence cycles. Each cycle shows how architecture influences, and is influenced by, a particular context in which architecture plays a critical role. Contexts include technical environment, the life cycle of a project, an organization’s business profile, and the architect’s professional practices. The authors also have greatly expanded their treatment of quality attributes, which remain central to their architecture philosophy—with an entire chapter devoted to each attribute—and broadened their treatment of architectural patterns. If you design, develop, or manage large software systems (or plan to do so), you will find this book to be a valuable resource for getting up to speed on the state of the art. Totally new material covers <ul>
<li> Contexts of software architecture: technical, project, business, and professional </li> <li> Architecture competence: what this means both for individuals and organizations </li> <li> The origins of business goals and how this affects architecture </li> <li> Architecturally significant requirements, and how to determine them </li> <li> Architecture in the life cycle, including generate-and-test as a design philosophy; architecture conformance during implementation; architecture and testing; and architecture and agile development </li> <li> Architecture and current technologies, such as the cloud, social networks, and end-user devices </li> </ul>

The Creative Underground: Art, Politics and Everyday Life (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

Paul Clements champions the creative underground and expressions of difference through visionary avant-garde and resistant ideas. This is represented by an admixture of utopian literature, manifestos and lifestyles which challenge normality and attempt to reinvent society, as practiced for example, by radicals in bohemian enclaves or youth subcultures. He showcases a range of 'art' and participatory cultural practices that are examined sociopolitically and historically, employing key theoretical ideas which highlight their contribution to aesthetic thinking, political ideology, and public discourse. A reevaluation of the arts and progressive modernism can reinvigorate culture through active leisure and post-work possibilities beyond materialism and its constraints, thereby presenting alternatives to established understandings and everyday cultural processes. The book teases out the difficult relationship between the individual, culture and society especially in relation to autonomy and marginality, while arguing that the creative underground is crucial for a better world, as it offers enchantment, vitality and hope.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Routledge

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Software Product Lines: Practices and Patterns: Practices and Patterns

Software Architecture in Practice (SEI Series in Software Engineering)

Software Product Lines: Practices and Patterns

Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond

Evaluating Software Architectures: Methods and Case Studies

Rawlsian Political Analysis: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Social Science

Software Architecture in Practice

Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond

Software Architecture in Practice (SEI Series in Software Engineering)

The Creative Underground: Art, Politics and Everyday Life (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)