Reviews
Book Review -- Process for System Architecture and Requirements Engineering
from The Rational Edge: In the opinion of reviewer Philippe Kruchten, this handbook by Derek Hatley, et al., goes beyond the former Hatley-Pirbhai (H/P) Method as a comprehensive systems engineering guide.
Book Review -- The Tipping Point
from The Rational Edge: A book that describes how careful attention to requirements management, testing, and QA procedures, among other things, can make a critical difference in our attitudes, our behavior, and consequently our success rates.
Book Review--Documenting Software Architectures
from The Rational Edge: This handbook provides everything you need to create a software architecture document, claims reviewer Philippe Kruchten. Based on lessons the authors learned through software development projects and consulting software architecture documents, academic literature, books,
Book review -- Developing Applications with JAVA and UML
from The Rational Edge: This reviews a book that applies the Unified Process model, Unified Modeling Language (UML) notation, and mainstream Java technology to walk readers through an extended sample project. The book emphasizes the benefits of this approach versus coding from an informal set of
Book review -- Effective Software Testing: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Testing
from The Rational Edge: According to Pollice, 'Most of the suggestions about ways to improve your testing... in this book are broad statements that, to an experienced tester, simply represent common sense.'
Book review -- Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions
from The Rational Edge: This review examines a book with a strong message: The technical issues of architecture cannot be separated from business issues.
Book Review: Programming Web Services with XML-RPC
from The Rational Edge: A reviewer recommends this book to anyone who needs to understand the XML-RPC protocol specification and its uses in Web services, including implementation in Java, Perl, PHP, Python, and Active Server Pages so that these languages can talk to each other.
Book review--Software Architecture: Organizational Principles and Patterns
from The Rational Edge: Kruchten reviews a useful book for software architects, project managers, and IT department managers about the organizational and social implications of focusing on architecture in developing software. The authors' VRAPS model encompasses Vision, Rhythm, Anticipation,
Book review -- eXtreme Programming Explained
from The Rational Edge: Hailed by the publisher as the definitive work on XP, this book is too thin to deserve that label, Elenburg concludes. However, he adds that Beck does a good job of laying out an enticing philosophy and style for building software.
Book review--Best Practices for the Formal Software Testing Process
from The Rational Edge: This review looks at a book by a thirty-year veteran of software testing, who presents a detailed process for executing a complete and formally documented software testing project on a large-scale system.
