Architecting Software Intensive Systems: A Practitioners Guide

Focusing on the architecture centric design method (ACDM), this book provides deep insight into designing software architectures for systems and how to effectively use architectural design artifacts once created. The text describes how to integrate ACDM with existing organizational structures and processes. The author demonstrates how to tailor defined software…

 

Developing Drivers with the Windows Driver Foundation

Master the features and capabilities of the new Windows Driver Foundation–with guidance straight from the experts. The new Windows Driver Foundation, based on the Windows Driver Kit, simplifies driver development with new models and tools familiar to developers who work with Microsoft Visual Studio®. This in-depth guide delivers authoritative guidance…

 

After the Software Wars

Given the technology that’s already available, we should have cars that drive us around, in absolute safety, while we lounge in the back and sip champagne. All we need is a video camera on the roof, plugged into a PC, right? We have all the necessary hardware, and have had…

 

The Software Vulnerability Guide

In today’s market, secure software is a must for consumers. Many developers, however, are not familiar with the techniques needed to produce secure code or detect existing vulnerabilities. The Software Vulnerability Guide focuses on the origin of most software vulnerabilities, including the bugs in the underlying software used to develop…

 

Software Product Lines: Research Issues in Engineering and Management

The topics in this book cover research related to the most important practices in a product line organization. The contributions provide experience-based knowledge about the domain and application engineering, the modeling and management of variability, and the design and use of tools to support the management of product line related…

 

Refactoring to Patterns

In 1994, Design Patterns changed the landscape of object-oriented development by introducing classic solutions to recurring design problems. In 1999, Refactoring revolutionized design by introducing an effective process for improving code. With the highly anticipated Refactoring to Patterns, Joshua Kerievsky has changed our approach to design by forever uniting

 

Rationale Management in Software Engineering

The emphasis on new and changing technologies and process models in today’s software development obscures the fact that software engineering is still primarily a human-based activity and that the success of a software project largely depends on the decisions made by humans during engineering. Rationale management is concerned with

 

Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

Tired of reading Object Oriented Analysis and Design books that only makes sense after you’re an expert? You’ve heard OOA&D can help you write great software every time-software that makes your boss happy, your customers satisfied and gives you more time to do what makes you happy.

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