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 Tamed agility: pragmatic contracting and collaboration in agile software projects
Book M., Gruhn V., Striemer R., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2016. 334 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319414-76-8)
Agile development is now mainstream, and there are hundreds of books out there about the subject. However, none has faced as big a challenge in agile projects as Tamed agility regarding the “down-to-earth” is...
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Apr 27 2017 |
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Cloud computing patterns: fundamentals to design, build, and manage cloud applications
Fehling C., Leymann F., Retter R., Schupeck W., Arbitter P., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, Vienna, Austria, 2014. 367 pp. Type: Book (978-3-709115-67-1)
When a new technology emerges, there is a proliferation of books and articles praising the brave new world of multiple possibilities, as found in the hundreds of texts already available that address cloud computing. From a technology s...
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Jan 8 2015 |
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Common system and software testing pitfalls: how to prevent and mitigate them
Firesmith D., Addison-Wesley Professional, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2013. 320 pp. Type: Book (978-0-133748-55-0)
As the author recognizes in the first chapter, this book should be seen as a collection of test anti-patterns, where each testing pitfall is always presented in a standardized way (pitfall name, ID, description, characteristic symptoms...
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Jul 9 2014 |
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Software cost estimation, benchmarking, and risk assessment: the software decision-makers’ guide to predictable software development
Trendowicz A., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2013. 348 pp. Type: Book (978-3-642307-63-8)
The scope of the book is the cost estimation, benchmarking, and risk assessment (CoBRA) method, launched in 1998. The core idea of the method is to enhance the estimates provided by traditional complexity-size-based metrics by applying...
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Sep 6 2013 |
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Schema matching and embedded value mapping for databases with opaque column names and mixed continuous and discrete-valued data fields
Jaiswal A., Miller D., Mitra P. ACM Transactions on Database Systems 38(1): 1-34, 2013. Type: Article
Schema matching is a key enabler for addressing data access and knowledge acquisition in this new era of data deluge. Streams from big data and heterogeneous databases produce huge demands for analytics and information discovery. In th...
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Jul 30 2013 |
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Pro website development and operations: streamlining DevOps for large-scale websites
Sacks M., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2012. 124 pp. Type: Book (978-1-430239-69-7)
The term DevOps in the title of this book stands for “development and operations.” It was inspired by the agile movement for software development, but is focused on streamlining the efficiency of development and ope...
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Feb 27 2013 |
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Beginning DB2: from novice to professional
Allen G., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2012. 544 pp. Type: Book (978-1-430243-23-6)
This book covers DB2 for Linux and Windows platforms, including the Express, Enterprise, and Personal editions. Surprisingly, the author successfully attains the objective claimed in the subtitle of reaching “novice to profes...
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Feb 8 2013 |
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Behavior computing: modeling, analysis, mining and decision
Cao L., Yu P., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2012. 390 pp. Type: Book (978-1-447129-68-4)
This compilation of 23 selected papers, written by 62 academics from around the world, is organized into four parts: “Behavior Modeling,” “Behavior Analysis,” “Behavior Mining,̶...
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Oct 12 2012 |
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Risk assessment in ERP projects
Aloini D., Dulmin R., Mininno V. Information Systems 37(3): 183-199, 2012. Type: Article
The implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) is an intrinsically high-risk endeavor. Many critical business processes spanning several areas within an organization are drastically changed, requiring new capabilities, multip...
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Jul 30 2012 |
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The economics of software quality
Jones C., Bonsignour O., Addison-Wesley Professional, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2012. 624 pp. Type: Book (978-0-132582-20-9)
Capers Jones, one of the founding fathers of software engineering, is regularly referenced in software metrics literature, thanks to the rich data provided in his books related to software productivity, software effort and cost estimat...
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