Software Engineering & Systems Development

Software stability has great promise for promoting software reuse and lifecycle improvement. These innovative concepts produce unique models that are both stable over time and across various paradigm shifts within a given application context. This book presents novel, pragmatic approaches to underst..

Strategic Software Engineering: An Interdisciplinary Approach addresses technical and scientific aspects of software development in a way that is accessible to a wide audience. It provides a review of software development models and processes, followed with an assessment of how process models evolve..

Successful Packaged Software Implementation guides IT departments through the selection and implementation of packaged software, pointing out potential pitfalls and how to avoid them. Offering a step-by-step approach, this volume begins with an assessment as to whether packaged software is the corre..

The Systems Development Handbook provides practical guidance for the range of new applications problems, featuring contributions from many industry experts. The book provides step-by-step charts, tables, schematics, and a comprehensive index for easy access to topics and areas of related interest. T..

Using combinatorial approaches, this book aims to motivate testers and testing organizations to perform meaningful testing. The text details essential planning activities prior to testing and describes how to scope the work and how to achieve a successful conclusion. Rather than presenting the entir..

The Business Value of IT: Managing Risks, Optimizing Performance, and Measuring Results examines how to measure IT performance, how to put a dollar value on IT, and how to justify value of an entire IT program. It places sharp technical focus on the techniques, methods, and processes used to identif..

The challenges of designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, distributed enterprise systems are truly daunting. Written for all IT professionals, The Complete Book of Middleware will aid in resolving new business objectives, new technologies, and vendor disputes. This book focuses on the esse..

Aids in resolving new business objectives, new technologies, and vendor disputes. This book focuses on the principles of system design and emphasizes the fresh requirements brought forward by the rise of e-commerce and distributed integrated systems. It also highlights the changes to middleware tech..

The Development of Component-based Information Systems..

Presenting insights from leading authorities, this book provides a solid understanding of the key concepts in enterprise architecture. It explains how to conduct more effective oversight of enterprise architecture activities for more efficient management of resources. Beginning with a look at curren..

Introduces the principles of software engineering profession. This book addresses the issues and misperceptions that engineers need to understand in order to work with software engineers, develop specifications for quality software, and learn the basics of the most common programming languages, deve..