Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 240 pages
- Published by: Apress
- Edition: 1st Edition July 6, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 159059665X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1590596654
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Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Product Description
The promise of
software Factories is to streamline and automate
software development-and thus to produce higher-quality
software more efficiently. The key idea is to promote systematic reuse at all levels and exploit economies of scope, which translates into concrete savings in planning, development, and maintenance efforts. However, the theory behind
software Factories can be overwhelming, because it spans many disciplines of
software development. On top of that,
software Factories typically require significant investments into reusable assets.
This book was written in order to demystify the
software Factories paradigm by guiding you through a practical case study from the early conception phase of building a
software Factory to delivering a ready-made
software product. The authors provide you with a hands-on example covering each of the four pillars of
software Factories:
software product lines, architectural frameworks, model-driven development, and guidance in context.
While the ideas behind
software Factories are platform independent, the
Microsoft .NET platform, together with recent technologies such as DSL Tools and the Smart Client Baseline Architecture Toolkit, makes an ideal foundation. A study shows the different facets and caveats and demonstrates how each of these technologies becomes part of a comprehensive factory.
software Factories are a top candidate for revolutionizing
software development. This book will give you a great starting point to understanding the concepts behind it and ultimately applying this knowledge to your own
software projects.
Contributions by Jack Greenfield, Wojtek Kozaczynski Foreword by Douglas C. Schmidt, Jack Greenfield, Jürgen Kazmeier and Eugenio Pace.
About The Author
Gunther Lenz is a pioneer in the field of
software Factories. He received a master's degree (Dipl. Ing. Univ.) in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He spent five years working on research and product development of a high-performance medical image-processing system, under FDA regulation. In addition to his project experience, Gunther was also a core member of the
software Engineering Process Group (SEPG), which defined, implemented, and optimized the
software development process. In 2002, Gunther joined Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, New Jersey, where he is a program manager in the
software Engineering department. His current research activities focus on Model-driven
software Development (MDSD), model evolution, and
software Factories. Within Siemens Corporate Technology, Gunther leads the global research efforts in the areas
software Factories and
Microsoft technologies.
Gunther is the author of the book
.NET-A Complete Development Cycle (Addison Wesley, 2004) and has published many articles in different
software development magazines, focusing on a variety of
software engineering topics. Furthermore, Gunther has received the
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Solution Architect award and is an invited member of the
Microsoft software Design Review Team. He frequently presents at international conferences on subjects related to his research area. Christoph Wienands received his Diplom-Informatiker (FH) in general computer science at the Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Before he joined Siemens Corporate Research as a
software engineer in 2003, he worked as an independent consultant in Germany and as an IT systems analyst with SS White Burs, New Jersey. As part of his responsibilities in the
software Engineering department at SCR, Christoph gets to apply the latest
Microsoft technologies, for example, in proof-of-concept applications and in consulting projects to other Siemens business units.
Together with Gunther, Christoph's current research activities focus on
software Factories, model-driven development, and domain-specific languages. In 2005, he became
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer. Due to his research activities, he is a frequent speaker at conferences such as UML World, SD West, and others.
Reader Reviews
I was a bit dissapointed in this book, however I still highly recommend it to anyone interested (as I am with a book of my own on the way) in factories. I was expecting far more in terms of real-world implementation, but I do understand all to well from experience that the pieces are not quite there yet. I suppose my dissapointment was in the name of the book. This is a far more theoretical 'what could be' book then 'here is how you do this now' book. That being said, they do a good job of providing a nice single resource for defining many core concepts and adding (especially to a MSFT audience) many critical knowedge areas. So bottom line, if you are even thinking about factories (and have already read the seminal work by Microsoft) then give this a read. In my book I hope to be far more 'Practical' and able to show an 'A-Z' example from iterative Factory creation to iterative factory consumption and deployment. Thanks, Damon Wilder Carr, CEO agilefactor
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