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Title: Building Systems from Commercial Components
by Kurt Wallnau, Scott Hissam, Robert Seacord
ISBN: 0-201-70064-6
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co
Pub. Date: 25 July, 2001
Format: Hardcover
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $54.99
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Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: very practical
Comment: I found this book to provide some very practical advice on a very difficult problem--dealing with the myriad versions of COTS products and the problems integrating them while dealing with dead-line driven schedules. Unlike other software engineering books Building Systems from Commercial Components takes a practicioners view and details out specific techniques that can be used in evaluating and integrating COTS products. I highly recommend this book.

Rating: 3
Summary: At least! People from SEI opening their eyes, but not much
Comment: They finally assert what is already know in the trenches, they have finally recognized that the manufacturing metaphor is wrong for software development, so CMM and ISO-9000 were built over the wrong foundation about software. The development process of goods made of atoms can not be applied to goods made of bits; the same principles cannot be sustained, except for entropy.

But they insist talking about analysis, design and programming as sequential activities, they are lost about the nature of software development, that is, a design activity all the way through.

Like most academic people, always behind the times.

Rating: 5
Summary: Let there be components
Comment: I found most of my projects are more or less concerned about system integration since last year, and found some difficulties. Depending on the components from other vendors became a great challenge, for my experience was mostly based on designing/implementing components from scratch. This book provides a new point of view to look at the development process. The authors suggest how designs should be adapted to face the fact that the components we are to assemble are in control of others' hands, and describe several techniques for component-based development. A case study (which is a really big one) are provided for the readers to see how these techniques can be applied. The authors are true software engineers, and their in-depth knowledge and experience are presented now in their precise writing style. Software development is changing its face now. Components are everywhere, and computing is moving on the way to ubiquity. I am sure this book is a good guide for the managers and developers in this trend.

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