Distributed Engineering of Software [Textbook Binding]

Gautier (Author), R. J. Guatier (Author)

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Publication Date: October 5, 1995 | Series: BCS Pratitioner Series

Distributed Software Engineering provides practical suggestions, guidelines and rules for meeting the increasingly important requirement of developing software by the collaboration of independent organisations, partly independent organisation and teleworkers. A key theme is the controlled sharing of project information, which may be geographically distributed across diverse networks and computing environments. This book explores distributed, collaborative software engineering using experiments and case studies.

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This book provides practical suggestions, guidelines and rules for meeting the increasingly important requirement of developing software by the collaboration of independent organizations, partly independent organizations and teleworkers. A key theme is the controlled sharing of project information, which may be geographically distributed across diverse networks and computing environments. Examines recent and future developments in collaborative engineering. Describes features required by data models to be used for software engineering environments and for the communication of information between environments. Discusses distributed object-oriented engineering and architectural issues.

Product Details

• Textbook Binding: 262 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1st edition (October 5, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0133426769
• ISBN-13: 978-0133426762
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,819,739 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Dated material-ignores management problems, January 16, 1999

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This review is from: Distributed Engineering of Software (Textbook Binding)

This book focuses on how to distribute a software project over multiple geographic locations. It does cover the technology involved, though it is dated in the 1995 mindset (it ignores the Internet, and treats a 64K connection as "high speed"). It covers the use of formal diagramming techniques, conference calls, common file formats and a common database repository. The biggest drawback is that it ignores the management and people aspects of distributed software development. Most projects fail because they try using the same techniques and processes as when all the developers are co-located. The books tell how to build technology to distribute information but it doesn't say WHAT you need to distributed to ensure a project's success.