Confessions of a Used Program Salesman


Book Description

During the past 10 years, Will Tracz has written more than a dozen "Confessions of a Used Program Salesman" articles. In this book, Tracz expands on these experiences in the reuse trenches from the viewpoint of the "used program salesman". Tracz provides unique insight into the problems of software reuse and the factors that have inhibited its acceptance as a viable form of software development.




Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering


Book Description

Regarding the controversial and thought-provoking assessments in this handbook, many software professionals might disagree with the authors, but all will embrace the debate. Glass identifies many of the key problems hampering success in this field. Each fact is supported by insightful discussion and detailed references.




Confessions of an Economic Hit Man


Book Description

Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.




Object-Oriented Technology. ECOOP 2008 Workshop Reader


Book Description

This book contains the final reports of the workshops held during the 22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2008, in Paphos, Cyprus, in July 2008. The 11 collected reports from high-quality workshops - provided by the respective organizers - all are related to selected aspects in the field of object-oriented programming and technology. The topics covered span areas related to object-oriented programming and technology, such as programming languages, aspects, parallel computing, formal techniques, software engineering, tools, and applications.




Software Reuse Techniques


Book Description

McClure takes software reuse beyond "good intentions", by presenting specific reuse techniques that have repeatedly helped companies lower costs and improve quality.




Rapid Development


Book Description

Project managers, technical leads, and Windows programmers throughout the industry share an important concern--how to get their development schedules under control. Rapid Development addresses that concern head-on with philosophy, techniques, and tools that help shrink and control development schedules and keep projects moving. The style is friendly and conversational--and the content is impressive.




Pattern Languages of Program Design 5


Book Description

The long awaited fifth volume in a collection of key practices for pattern languages and design.




Tutorial, Software Reuse


Book Description

An overview of the basic issues concerning software reuse with focus on mental and supplemental tools that support the concept. Describes the processes including: components, software libraries, methodologies, Ada resuse experiences, and object-oriented computing. Acidic paper; no index. Annotation




Reusing Open Source Code


Book Description

The reuse of existing code through their software developers is critical for firms to ensure efficient development of high-quality software. Manuel Sojer empirically investigates which factors influence software developers to reuse open source code and what causes them to comply with the resulting license obligations or not.




A Holistic View of Software and Hardware Reuse


Book Description

This book focuses on software reuse and the chances, dependability tests and recommendations for best reuse practice. A short introduction of the Ecodesign of hardware is given combined with the latest update of relevant EU legislation and standardization. It also describes the combination of different states of software in a E&E system in order to guarantee dependability of the product to be resold.