Software Reuse: Domain Analysis and Design Processes [Paperback]

Jag Sodhi (Author), Prince Sodhi (Author)

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Series: Software development series | Publication Date: October 1998

Large-scale software systems used by government and corporations - they are anything but simple, but object-oriented programming has made these systems far easier to manage through software reuse. Now comes a trailblazing resource that goes a long way in simplifying the process of software reuse itself: "Software Reuse: Doamin Analysis and Design Processes."

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Large-scale software systems used by government and corporations--they are anything but simple, but object-oriented programming has made these systems far easier to manage through software reuse. Now comes a trailblazing resource that goes a long way in simplifying the process of software reuse itself: Software Reuse: Domain Analysis and Design Processes. The first book to focus on domain analysis and design processes, it lays out an innovative, comprehensive, and unified approach to large-scale software projects--one that integrates object-oriented components, design patterns, and conversion tools that make code written for one purpose serve other uses. Based on more than 30 years of industry experience, the authors' new domain analysis techniques can help managers, analysts, and developers: halt the rapidly rising curve of software costs; obtains higher project success rates; increase product maintainability and reliability; cut development delays; improve application performance; contribute to the evolution of a common component warehouse; gain greater portability, scalability, and standardization. Ever since the first code was written for the first computer, software reuse has been both a sought-after opportunity and an intransigent problem. No longer. Software Reuse gives large-scale development projects a realistic roadmap to a reachable goal that will pay enormous dividends for many, many years to come.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx) (October 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070579237
• ISBN-13: 978-0070579231
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,880,175 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #84 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Software Design, Testing & Engineering > Software Reuse

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely informative and timely; well written, January 5, 1999

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Fred Moxley - See all my reviews

This review is from: Software Reuse: Domain Analysis and Design Processes (Paperback)

This book provides an indepth and quite informative overview of the field of software reuse as it pertains to systems analysis and design. It is comprehensive and well written. Overall, I would recommend it highly to current practioners, as well as those needing an introduction to this often overlooked area of importance within the realm of software engineering.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Still waiting for a good book on domain analysis, September 12, 2000

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J. Long (Raleigh, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Software Reuse: Domain Analysis and Design Processes (Paperback)

This book discusses a number of standard reuse concepts which are described more adequately in other works. The main contribution of this book is that it focuses on domain analysis. There are few books in the software world that describe domain analysis. My main issues with the book are: (1) It does not use UML notation, which is fairly well-known in the industry now; (2) It focuses on US Government reuse work and ignores other approaches; (3) It focuses on object, not components. It is fairly impractical to base a large-scale reuse effort only on objects; (4) It does not really step through how to actually perform domain analysis. It talks about it at a high level. I recommend Carma McClure's book about Software Reuse Techniques. Her chapter 19 is much more informative than this book.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Uninformative, badly written., October 28, 1999

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O. Flege (Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Software Reuse: Domain Analysis and Design Processes (Paperback)

One of the worst books on reuse I ever read. Lots of weird statements about OO (e.g., polymorphism allows to add attributes!?, UML is a methodology?!). The domain analysis part is incomprehensive and DOES NOT present "the author's new techniques" as the publisher claims, but rather well known ones that are better described elsewhere. For a practitioner, this book is useless, as it nowhere comes even close to good software reuse books (Jacobsen's 0201924765, Basset's 013327859X or Coplien's 0201824671).