Distributed Systems: Software Design and Implementation - Hardcover

Fleischmann, Albert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540573828 ISBN 13: 9783540573821

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1994

Synopsis

The purpose of this book is to make the reader famliar with software engineering for distributed systems. Software engineering is a valuable discipline in the develop­ ment of software. The reader has surely heard of software systems completed months or years later than scheduled with huge cost overruns, systems which on completion did not provide the performance promised, and systems so catastrophic that they had to be abandoned without ever doing any useful work. Software engi­ neering is the discipline of creating and maintaining software; when used in con­ junction with more general methods for effective management its use does reduce the incidence of horrors mentioned above. The book gives a good impression of software engineering particularly for dis­ tributed systems. It emphasises the relationship between software life cycles, meth­ ods, tools and project management, and how these constitute the framework of an open software engineering environment, especially in the development of distrib­ uted software systems. There is no closed software engineering environment which can encompass the full range of software missions, just as no single flight plan, airplane or pilot can perform all aviation missions. There are some common activities in software engi­ neering which must be addressed independent of the applied life cycle or methodol­ ogy. Different life cycles, methods, related tools and project management ap­ proaches should fit in such a software engineering framework.

About this title

Synopsis

This is an introduction to software engineering for distributed systems. Concepts which are essential for the development of distributed programs are described in detail. It explains how software engineering methods for both non-distributed and distributed programs can be combined in order to use their advantages. The result is called "subject-oriented programming", and combines asynchronous parallel processes, eg threads and object oriented concepts. This hybrid approach makes it easier to design and implement distributed software systems and therefore increases the efficiency of the software engineering process.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 3540573828
• ISBN 13: 9783540573821
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 408