Software Development – Table of Content

Building Reliable Systems

First edition; 416 pages
ISBN: 0-13-081246-3
( by: Marc Hamilton )

Table of Content

Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Part 1: Background Chapter 1: Ten Commandments of Successful Software Development

Chapter 2: Software Development Has Always Been Difficult

  • Software’s Difficult Past
  • The Year 2000 and Other Similar Problems
  • It Is Hard to Structure Development Organizations for Success
  • It Is Hard to Schedule and Budget Correctly
  • It Is Hard to Select the Right Language and Development Tools
  • It Is Hard to Select the Right OS and Hardware Platform
  • It Is Hard to Accomplish a Production Rollout

Chapter 3: Software Development Defined

  • Software Life Cycle Overview
  • Programming Paradigms
  • Procedural Software
  • Modular Software
  • Object-Oriented Software
  • Distributed and Concurrent Software
  • Development Environments
  • System Modeling Tools
  • Software Architectures

Chapter 4: Trends in Software Development

  • The Universal DBMS
  • Packaged ERP Software and its Customization
  • Webtop Computing and Platform Independence
  • Offshore Development
  • Streamlining IT Infrastructure

Part 2: People Chapter 5: Building a Winning Software Development Team

  • The Developer Shortage
  • Software Development Job Descriptions
  • Director of Software Development
  • Chief Software Architect
  • Software Development Manager
  • Senior Software Engineer
  • Software Engineer III
  • Software Engineer II
  • Software Engineer I
  • Toolsmith
  • Webmaster
  • Database Administrator
  • System Administrator
  • Skills Tracking
  • Sample C++ Programming Self-Evaluation
  • Sample Java Programming Self-Evaluation
  • Behavioral Value Assessment Interview
  • Value #1: Initiative
  • Value #2: Dedication
  • Value #3: Flexibility
  • Value #4: Respect
  • Your Software Development Partners

Chapter 6: Organizing for Success

  • The Dimensions of an Organization
  • The Importance of Organizational Structure
  • Streamlining Bureaucracy
  • Sample Organizational Structures
  • Project Centered Organizations
  • Department Centered Organizations
  • Matrix Organizations
  • Product Line Organizations
  • Recurring Organizational Themes
  • Creating a Software Process Team
  • Balancing Centralized versus Decentralized Organization
  • Managing Virtual Teams
  • Thirteen Organizational Structure Mistakes

Chapter 7: Recruiting The Best Talent

  • How to Staff for Growth
  • Internal Referrals
  • Campus Recruiting
  • Agencies
  • Newspapers and Other Media
  • Job Fairs
  • Internet
  • Acquisitions
  • What to Look for and How to Look for It
  • Technical Skills
  • Values

Chapter 8: Retaining the Best Talent

  • Compensation Philosophy
  • Total Compensation Strategy
  • Base Pay
  • Traditional Benefits
  • Creative Benefits
  • Short-Term Incentives
  • Long-Term Incentives
  • Job Rotations
  • Mentoring
  • HR Issues

Chapter 9: Successfully Transitioning Developers

  • Why Transition Developers
  • Mainframe to Client-Server
  • Mainframe to Web-Centric
  • Client-Server to Web-Centric
  • Procedural to Object-Oriented
  • Language-Specific Transition Issues
  • Does Transitioning Work?

Part 3: Processes Chapter 10: The Software Life Cycle

  • The Capability Maturity Model for Software
  • Level One: Initial
  • Level Two: Repeatable
  • Level Three: Defined
  • Level Four: Managed
  • Level Five: Optimized
  • Requirements Analysis and Definition
  • System Architecture and Design
  • Test Plan Design
  • Implementation
  • Validation and Testing
  • Unit Testing
  • Subsystem and System Testing
  • Black-Box and White-Box Testing
  • Alpha and Beta Testing
  • Stress Testing
  • Production Acceptance

Chapter 11: Rapid Application Development

  • Why Another Methodology?
  • Strategic Planning
  • Product Definition
  • Product Design
  • Product Development
  • Product Delivery

Chapter 12: Software Productivity, Metrics, and Quality

  • Code Metrics
  • McCabe Metrics
  • The Impact of Workspace on Productivity
  • Make versus Buy
  • The Value of Domain Knowledge
  • The Importance of Standards
  • Enterprise-Wide Architecture Standards
  • Coding Standards
  • Help Standards

Chapter 13: Web-Centric Production Acceptance

  • The WCPA Chronicle
  • The WCPA Questionnaire
  • Personalized Communications
  • Internal Support Agreements (ISAs)
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Internet Engineering
  • Security Engineering
  • Network Engineering
  • WebTone Engineering
  • Technical Support
  • Hardware Support
  • Applications Support
  • The WCPA Process
  • What IT Should/Should Not Support

Part 4: Technology Chapter 14: Programming Language Features

  • C
  • C++
  • FORTRAN
  • Ada
  • BASIC
  • Java
  • COBOL
  • LISP
  • Scripting Languages (Perl, awk, Tcl, ksh)

Chapter 15:Software Development Tools

  • Interactive Development Environments
  • BeanMachine
  • Builder Xcessory Pro
  • CodeWarrior Professional
  • Java Workshop
  • JBuilder
  • SuperCede for Java
  • UIM/X
  • Visual Cafe for Java
  • VisualAge
  • Visual J++
  • GUI Development Tools and Libraries
  • Chart.J
  • Jviews
  • JWave
  • Database Tools
  • Blend.J
  • CocoBase
  • Developer/2000
  • GemStone/J
  • Jaguar CTS
  • NetDynamics
  • Testing Tools
  • JavaScope
  • Pegasus
  • WebLoad
  • Web Authoring Tools
  • Code Editors
  • Compilers
  • Debuggers
  • Code Analysis
  • Performance Analysis Tools
  • Component Tools
  • CASE Tools
  • Version and Baseline Control

Chapter 16: Selecting Your Hardware Environment

  • Developer Desktops
  • Development Servers
  • File Server Benchmarks
  • Compile Server Benchmarks
  • Database Server Benchmarks
  • Web Server Benchmarks
  • Network Infrastructure
  • Disk Storage Architecture
  • Single Function versus General Purpose Servers
  • Architecture Issues Impacting Software Design
  • SMP Architectures
  • MPP
  • NUMA
  • Clustering
  • Highly Available and Fault-Tolerant Systems
  • Relationship of Hardware to OS and Compiler Design

Chapter 17: Component-Based Software Development

  • The History of Components
  • Components versus Object-Oriented Technology
  • Role of Visual Programming in Component Software
  • Component Development Using JavaBeans

Chapter 18:Performance Optimization Techniques

  • How Much Performance Do You Need?
  • How to Identify Bottlenecks
  • Disk Bottlenecks
  • CPU Bottlenecks
  • Memory Bottlenecks
  • Network Bottlenecks

Chapter 19: Multithreaded Programming

  • Multithreading Defined
  • Synchronization Objects

Chapter 20: Developing for the Web

  • Web Browsers and Servers
  • Proxy Web Servers
  • CGI Programming
  • Java Applets
  • Enterprise JavaBeans
  • Other Java Enterprise APIs
  • Java Servlet API
  • JavaServer Pages (JSP)
  • Java Messaging Service (JMS) API
  • Java Naming and Directory (JNDI) API

Chapter 21: Distributed Applications with CORBA, RMI, and DCOM

  • Distributed Objects Using CORBA
  • CORBA Services
  • CORBA Facilities
  • CORBA Application Objects
  • A CORBA Client-Server Example
  • DCOM Objects
  • Distributed Java Applications with RMI

Chapter 22: A Sneak Peak at Jini Technology

  • Jini Infrastructure
  • Discover and Join
  • Lookup
  • Distributed Programming
  • Leasing
  • Distributed Events
  • Distributed Transactions
  • Millennium versus Jini

Appendix A: Software Development Frequently Asked Questions

  • General Questions
  • People Related Questions
  • Process Related Questions
  • Technology Related Questions
  • Software History and Trivia Questions

Appendix B: Java Coding Standard Template

  • Introduction
  • Source Files
  • Source File Naming
  • Source File Organization
  • Naming Conventions
  • Package Naming
  • Class/Interface Naming
  • Field Naming
  • Method Naming
  • Statement Label Naming
  • White Space Usage
  • Blank Lines
  • Blank Spaces
  • Indentation
  • Continuation Lines
  • Comments
  • Documentation Comments
  • Block Comments
  • Single-line Comments
  • Classes
  • Class Body Organization
  • Interfaces
  • Interface Body Organization
  • Statements
  • Simple Statements
  • Compound Statements
  • Labeled Statements

Appendix C: Sample Internal Support Agreement (ISA)

  • Root Authority
  • Server Availability Hours
  • Backups
  • Support Responsibility
  • Function of Each Server
  • Special Requests

Appendix D: How This Book Was Written

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