Current and future mobile terminals become increasingly complex because they have
to deal with a variety of frequency bands and communication standards. Achieving
multi-band/multi-mode functionality is especially challenging for the radio frequency
(RF)-transceiver section, due to limitations in terms of frequency-agile RF components...
Are you attracted by the promises of agile methods but put off by the fanaticism of many agile texts? Would you like to know which agile techniques work, which ones do not matter much, and which ones will harm your projects? Then you need Agile!: the first exhaustive, objective review of agile principles, techniques and tools.
(NOTE: this Beta Edition may contain errors. See http://saasbook.info for details.) A one-semester college course in software engineering focusing on cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS), and Agile development using Extreme Programming (XP). This book is neither a step-by-step tutorial nor a reference book. Instead, our goal is to...
Struts 2.1 is a modern, extensible, agile web application framework suitable for both small- and large-scale web applications.
The book begins with a comprehensive look at Struts 2.1 basics, interspersed with detours into more advanced development topics. You'll learn about configuring Struts 2.1 actions, results, and interceptors via...
As a programmer working for Logica UK in London in the mid-1980’s, I became a passionate advocate of formal methods. Extrapolating from small successes with VDM and JSP, I was sure that widespread use of formal methods would bring an end to the software crisis.
One approach especially intrigued me. John Guttag and Jim...
Big Data started off as a technology buzzword rapidly growing into the headline agenda of several corporate strategies across industry verticals. With the amount of structured and unstructured data available to organizations exploding, analysis of these large data sets is increasingly becoming a key basis of competition, productivity growth,...
The Art of Agile Development contains practical guidance for anyone considering or applying agile development for building valuable software. Plenty of books describe what agile development is or why it helps software projects succeed, but very few combine information for developers, managers, testers, and customers into a single...
Nowadays, Agile application development is usually done at a fast pace when many developers are working on the same piece of code. Every so often, this becomes a real challenge if there's no permanent control over consistency of the project source. It is often impossible to force lazy and/or busy programmers to execute tests before and...
Agility and Execution – Organizational Success Through Flexible Business Processes
Only a company which is flexible, agile and responsive will be successful. The secret to success is agility, meaning the ability to quickly adapt company processes. Against this backdrop, IT is of particular importance as it is virtually the machine...
“Successful companies have known the importance of continuous change and learning for a long time; this is the first book that describes these concepts in an organic way in the context of software development. A must read for everybody involved in this business.”
FASE (Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering) is concerned with the foundations on which software engineering is built. Its focus is on novel techniques and the way in which they contribute to making software engineering a more mature and soundly based discipline. This year, we particularly encouraged contributions that combine the...
