The Essence Of Software

Author : Ivar Jacobson
Publisher : Addison-Wesley
ISBN 13 : 0133153134
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essence of Software Engineering written by Ivar Jacobson and published by Addison-Wesley. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SEMAT (Software Engineering Methods and Theory) is an international initiative designed to identify a common ground, or universal standard, for software engineering. It is supported by some of the most distinguished contributors to the field. Creating a simple language to describe methods and practices, the SEMAT team expresses this common ground as a kernel–or framework–of elements essential to all software development. The Essence of Software Engineering introduces this kernel and shows how to apply it when developing software and improving a team’s way of working. It is a book for software professionals, not methodologists. Its usefulness to development team members, who need to evaluate and choose the best practices for their work, goes well beyond the description or application of any single method. “Software is both a craft and a science, both a work of passion and a work of principle. Writing good software requires both wild flights of imagination and creativity, as well as the hard reality of engineering tradeoffs. This book is an attempt at describing that balance.” —Robert Martin (unclebob) “The work of Ivar Jacobson and his colleagues, started as part of the SEMAT initiative, has taken a systematic approach to identifying a ‘kernel’ of software engineering principles and practices that have stood the test of time and recognition.” —Bertrand Meyer “The software development industry needs and demands a core kernel and language for defining software development practices—practices that can be mixed and matched, brought on board from other organizations; practices that can be measured; practices that can be integrated; and practices that can be compared and contrasted for speed, quality, and price. This thoughtful book gives a good grounding in ways to think about the problem, and a language to address the need, and every software engineer should read it.” —Richard Soley

Author : Volker Gruhn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319738976
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essence of Software Engineering written by Volker Gruhn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book includes contributions by leading researchers and industry thought leaders on various topics related to the essence of software engineering and their application in industrial projects. It offers a broad overview of research findings dealing with current practical software engineering issues and also pointers to potential future developments. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of adesso AG, adesso gathered some of the pioneers of software engineering including Manfred Broy, Ivar Jacobson and Carlo Ghezzi at a special symposium, where they presented their thoughts about latest software engineering research and which are part of this book. This way it offers readers a concise overview of the essence of software engineering, providing valuable insights into the latest methodological research findings and adesso’s experience applying these results in real-world projects.

Author : Daniel Jackson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262017156
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Software Abstractions written by Daniel Jackson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An approach to software design that introduces a fully automated analysis giving designers immediate feedback, now featuring the latest version of the Alloy language. In Software Abstractions Daniel Jackson introduces an approach to software design that draws on traditional formal methods but exploits automated tools to find flaws as early as possible. This approach—which Jackson calls “lightweight formal methods” or “agile modeling”—takes from formal specification the idea of a precise and expressive notation based on a tiny core of simple and robust concepts but replaces conventional analysis based on theorem proving with a fully automated analysis that gives designers immediate feedback. Jackson has developed Alloy, a language that captures the essence of software abstractions simply and succinctly, using a minimal toolkit of mathematical notions. This revised edition updates the text, examples, and appendixes to be fully compatible with Alloy 4.

Author : Ivar Jacobson
Publisher : ACM Books
ISBN 13 : 9781947487277
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essentials of Modern Software Engineering written by Ivar Jacobson and published by ACM Books. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first course in software engineering is the most critical. Education must start from an understanding of the heart of software development, from familiar ground that is common to all software development endeavors. This book is an in-depth introduction to software engineering that uses a systematic, universal kernel to teach the essential elements of all software engineering methods. This kernel, Essence, is a vocabulary for defining methods and practices. Essence was envisioned and originally created by Ivar Jacobson and his colleagues, developed by Software Engineering Method and Theory (SEMAT) and approved by The Object Management Group (OMG) as a standard in 2014. Essence is a practice-independent framework for thinking and reasoning about the practices we have and the practices we need. Essence establishes a shared and standard understanding of what is at the heart of software development. Essence is agnostic to any particular method, lifecycle independent, programming language independent, concise, scalable, extensible, and formally specified. Essence frees the practices from their method prisons. The first part of the book describes Essence, the essential elements to work with, the essential things to do and the essential competencies you need when developing software. The other three parts describe more and more advanced use cases of Essence. Using real but manageable examples, it covers the fundamentals of Essence and the innovative use of serious games to support software engineering. It also explains how current practices such as user stories, use cases, Scrum, and micro-services can be described using Essence, and illustrates how their activities can be represented using the Essence notions of cards and checklists. The fourth part of the book offers a vision how Essence can be scaled to support large, complex systems engineering. Essence is supported by an ecosystem developed and maintained by a community of experienced people worldwide. From this ecosystem, professors and students can select what they need and create their own way of working, thus learning how to create ONE way of working that matches the particular situation and needs.

Author : John Ousterhout
Publisher : Yaknyam Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781732102200
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Philosophy of Software Design written by John Ousterhout and published by Yaknyam Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric Elliott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781661212568
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Composing Software written by Eric Elliott and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All software design is composition: the act of breaking complex problems down into smaller problems and composing those solutions. Most developers have a limited understanding of compositional techniques. It's time for that to change.In "Composing Software", Eric Elliott shares the fundamentals of composition, including both function composition and object composition, and explores them in the context of JavaScript. The book covers the foundations of both functional programming and object oriented programming to help the reader better understand how to build and structure complex applications using simple building blocks.You'll learn: Functional programmingObject compositionHow to work with composite data structuresClosuresHigher order functionsFunctors (e.g., array.map)Monads (e.g., promises)TransducersLensesAll of this in the context of JavaScript, the most used programming language in the world. But the learning doesn't stop at JavaScript. You'll be able to apply these lessons to any language. This book is about the timeless principles of software composition and its lessons will outlast the hot languages and frameworks of today. Unlike most programming books, this one may still be relevant 20 years from now.This book began life as a popular blog post series that attracted hundreds of thousands of readers and influenced the way software is built at many high growth tech startups and fortune 500 companies

Author : Daniel Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781796666960
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design by Concept written by Daniel Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design by concept is a new approach to creating software. A software product--whether an app, a service or a system--is viewed as a collection of interacting concepts, each with its own purpose, structure and behavior. Concepts can be invented afresh, but they can also be reused, exploiting the knowledge embodied in previous successful designs.This book explains what concepts are and why they are central to software design; shows examples of concepts (from the most effective and ingenious to the most flawed and frustrating) taken from well-known applications; and presents design principles that can identify and eliminate flaws in existing and new designs.

Author : Daniel Jackson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691230544
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essence of Software written by Daniel Jackson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary concept-based approach to thinking about, designing, and interacting with software As our dependence on technology increases, the design of software matters more than ever before. Why then is so much software flawed? Why hasn’t there been a systematic and scalable way to create software that is easy to use, robust, and secure? Examining these issues in depth, The Essence of Software introduces a theory of software design that gives new answers to old questions. Daniel Jackson explains that a software system should be viewed as a collection of interacting concepts, breaking the functionality into manageable parts and providing a new framework for thinking about design. Through this radical and original perspective, Jackson lays out a practical and coherent path, accessible to anyone—from strategist and marketer to UX designer, architect, or programmer—for making software that is empowering, dependable, and a delight to use. Jackson explores every aspect of concepts—what they are and aren’t, how to identify them, how to define them, and more—and offers prescriptive principles and practical tips that can be applied cost-effectively in a wide range of domains. He applies these ideas to contemporary software designs, drawing examples from leading software manufacturers such as Adobe, Apple, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and others. Jackson shows how concepts let designers preserve and reuse design knowledge, rather than starting from scratch in every project. An argument against the status quo and a guide to improvement for both working designers and novices to the field, The Essence of Software brings a fresh approach to software and its creation.

Author : Daniel Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essence of Software written by Daniel Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to software design through concepts.

Author : Volker Gruhn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781013270093
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essence of Software Engineering written by Volker Gruhn and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book includes contributions by leading researchers and industry thought leaders on various topics related to the essence of software engineering and their application in industrial projects. It offers a broad overview of research findings dealing with current practical software engineering issues and also pointers to potential future developments.Celebrating the 20th anniversary of adesso AG, adesso gathered some of the pioneers of software engineering including Manfred Broy, Ivar Jacobson and Carlo Ghezzi at a special symposium, where they presented their thoughts about latest software engineering research and which are part of this book. This way it offers readers a concise overview of the essence of software engineering, providing valuable insights into the latest methodological research findings and adesso's experience applying these results in real-world projects. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.