Flexible Software Design - Systems Development for Changing Requirements

To avoid burdensome maintenance costs developers must rely on a system's flexibility. This handbook demonstrates the design principles and techniques that enable the design of software that empowers business staff to make functional changes to their systems with little or no professional IT intervention.

List of contents

Introduction to flexibility. What is required to achieve flexibility. How to design flexible software systems. Flexibility: Delving deeper.

About the author

Johnson, Bruce; Woolfolk, Walter W.; Miller, Robert; Johnson, Cindy

Summary

Demonstrates the design principles and techniques that enable the design of software that empowers business staff to make functional changes to their systems with little or no professional IT intervention. This book concentrates on the design aspects of system development, the area with the most flexibility leverage.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Johnson, Bruce (North Carolina State University Johnson, Bruce Woolfolk Johnson, Cindy Johnson, Cindy (North Carolina State University Johnson, Johnson Cindy, Robert Miller, Robert (University of New Mexico Miller, Walter W. Woolfolk, Woolfolk Walter W.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.06.2005
• EAN: 9780849326509
• ISBN: 978-0-8493-2650-9
• No. of pages: 462
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Software Engineering, COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / General, COMPUTERS / Information Technology, Computer architecture & logic design, COMPUTERS / Computer Architecture, Computer architecture and logic design