Large-Scale Software Architecture: A Practical Guide Using UML

by Jeff Garland, Richard Anthony, Jeff Garland

Book Overview

Die Aufgabe gro angelegter Softwarearchitekturen ist es, die praktische Darstellung zu erfassen und zu beschreiben, um Entwicklungsteams effektiver zu machen.

"Large-Scale Software Architecture" ist ein praktischer Leitfaden f?r den Umgang mit UML.

Hier wird erl?utert, wie man Softwarearchitektur als Tool benutzt, um die Entwicklung zu leiten, anstatt die architektonischen Einzelheiten zu erfassen, nachdem alle Designentscheidungen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470848499
• ISBN13: 9780470848494
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Brief and to the point

This book is not pretentious about what it tries to do. It has no grandiose notions of explaining theories behind architecture, capturing history of the field, how to select architecture to enhance certain architectural qualities, trade offs to consider or patterns to choose from. It is simply a guide on what architectural views are more relevant than others when trying to build large scale systems, what the view points guiding the generation of those views are, how to use these views effectively when guiding software projects. This it does admirably well, to the point. It does point to other reference material of relevance for other topics on architecture that is useful for deeper knowledge. Apart from avoiding pitfalls, this is a good book to help train senior developers and leads who want to move to architect roles. Also helps in developing shared vision on architectural deliverables to be generated among stakeholders. 4 Stars since it is rather pricey.

Excellent guide to designing large software systems

This book presents a very practical guide to designing and developing large-scale software systems. I've been involved in a number of large-scale projects and this is the first book I've found that includes many of the things you usually find out the hard way. Things like how to effectively communicate the design to the team, how to manage iterations and how to document designs and changes to the design. Since the topic is large-scale systems, the book focuses more on techniques than on specific examples, but it more than makes up for that by providing practical tips and recommended reading references. If you are leading a software development team or plan to, this book will help you on a very practical level.

Excellent ref. on communicating large-scale software design

An excellent reference on what UML diagrams to use to capture the achitecture of a large software project. And this isn't based on the authors' ivory-tower opinions, but on their actual experience of using these diagrams in the real world. We have since used their approach to successfully capture (and thereby communicate to others) the architecture of software projects at our company.The writing style is a bit dry (there are no humorous anecdotes), but this is more than made up for by being concise.The book also includes an excellent primer of the various roles a software architect (and other software managers) should take within a large project.