Flexible Software Design
eBook - PDF

Flexible Software Design

Systems Development for Changing Requirements

  1. 464 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Flexible Software Design

Systems Development for Changing Requirements

About this book

A developer's knowledge of a computing system's requirements is necessarily imperfect because organizations change. Many requirements lie in the future and are unknowable at the time the system is designed and built. To avoid burdensome maintenance costs developers must therefore rely on a system's ability to change gracefully-its flexibility. Flex

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Yes, you can access Flexible Software Design by Bruce Johnson,Walter W. Woolfolk,Robert Miller,Cindy Johnson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Computer Science & Information Technology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. The Authors
  5. INTRODUCTION TO FLEXIBILITY
  6. 1. The Serious Problems with IT Today
  7. 2. The Reality of Imperfect Knowledge
  8. 3. Outcome, Not Methodology
  9. 4. Realignment of Roles
  10. 5. UniverSIS: A Flexible System
  11. WHAT IS REQUIRED TO ACHIEVE FLEXIBILITY
  12. 6. Guidelines for Flexible Software Design
  13. 7. The Importance of Stable Identifiers
  14. 8. Regulation: Managing Artificial Limits
  15. 9. Stable Information Structures
  16. 10. The Generic-Entity Cloud
  17. HOW TO DESIGN FLEXIBLE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
  18. 11. Flexibility and Strategic Systems Planning
  19. 12. Requirements Determination for Flexible Systems
  20. 13. System Design with an Eye on Flexibility
  21. 14. Implementing Stable Identifiers
  22. 15. Testing and Maintenance of Flexible Software
  23. 16. Identifying, Managing, and Acquiring Quality Flexible Software
  24. FLEXIBILITY: DELVING DEEPER
  25. 17. A Closer Look at UniverSIS
  26. 18. Evaluator: a Flexible Tool for Maintaining Business Rules
  27. 19. Tuition-Remission Case Study: Traditional versus Flexible
  28. 20. Regulatory GECs
  29. 21. GEC Applications and Extensions
  30. 22. GEC Aids
  31. Appendices
  32. Index