- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (Aug 4 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0201700646
- ISBN-13: 978-0201700640
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16.1 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 930 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,661,101 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Commercial software components can dramatically reduce the cost and time required to develop complex business-critical systems. However, integrating them offers stiff challenges that are not well understood by most software practitioners, and there have been many spectacular failures. Now, a team of authors from the Software Engineering Institute draws upon the lessons presented by both the failures and the successes, offering a start-to-finish methodology for integrating commercial components successfully. The authors examine failed integration projects, identifying key lessons and early warning signs, including the failure to account for loss of control over engineering design and production. Drawing upon both successes and failures, they present proven solutions for establishing requirements, evaluating components, creating flexible system designs that incorporate commercial components; and managing multiple concurrent design options linked to external market events and feasibility proofs. They also show how to build "just-in-time" competency with commercial components and integration.
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(Pearson Education) A three-part text on the theory and practice of building systems from commercial components. Part 1 identifies building challenges and presents engineering techniques, part 2 presents an extensive case study, and part 3 provides advice on how to begin a building project. DLC: System design.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
very practical,
By Judy A. Powers (Albany, New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Building Systems from Commercial Components (Paperback)
I found this book to provide some very practical advice on a very difficult problem--dealing with the myriad versions of COTS products and the problems integrating them while dealing with dead-line driven schedules. Unlike other software engineering books Building Systems from Commercial Components takes a practicioners view and details out specific techniques that can be used in evaluating and integrating COTS products. I highly recommend this book.
3.0 out of 5 stars
At least! People from SEI opening their eyes, but not much,
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This review is from: Building Systems from Commercial Components (Paperback)
They finally assert what is already know in the trenches, they have finally recognized that the manufacturing metaphor is wrong for software development, so CMM and ISO-9000 were built over the wrong foundation about software. The development process of goods made of atoms can not be applied to goods made of bits; the same principles cannot be sustained, except for entropy.But they insist talking about analysis, design and programming as sequential activities, they are lost about the nature of software development, that is, a design activity all the way through. Like most academic people, always behind the times.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Let there be components,
By Chih-wei Ho (Taipei, Taiwan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Building Systems from Commercial Components (Paperback)
I found most of my projects are more or less concerned about system integration since last year, and found some difficulties. Depending on the components from other vendors became a great challenge, for my experience was mostly based on designing/implementing components from scratch. This book provides a new point of view to look at the development process. The authors suggest how designs should be adapted to face the fact that the components we are to assemble are in control of others' hands, and describe several techniques for component-based development. A case study (which is a really big one) are provided for the readers to see how these techniques can be applied. The authors are true software engineers, and their in-depth knowledge and experience are presented now in their precise writing style. Software development is changing its face now. Components are everywhere, and computing is moving on the way to ubiquity. I am sure this book is a good guide for the managers and developers in this trend.
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