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Rationale Management in Software Engineering
. Ed(S): Dutoit, Allen H.; McCall, Raymond (U Colorado); Mistrik, Ivan; Paech, Barbara
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Description for Rationale Management in Software Engineering
Hardback. Software engineering is primarily a human-based activity and rationale management is concerned with making design and development decisions explicit to all stakeholders involved. This title provides a summary of research on design rationale providing researchers in software engineering with an overview of the subject. Editor(s): Dutoit, Allen H.; McCall, Raymond (U Colorado); Mistrik, Ivan; Paech, Barbara. Num Pages: 456 pages, 92 black & white illustrations, 18 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: UMZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1433.
Thirty years ago, I first entered the dark realm of software engineering, through a prior interest in documentation. In those days, documentation pretty much meant functional specifications. The idea that stakeholders in a system (its implementers, its end-users, its maintainers, and so forth) might want something other than an alphabetic list of function definitions was just taking hold. There was an exciting (to me) vision of stakeholders accessing and contributing to explanations of how and why aspects of a system work as they do, tradeoff analysis of concomitant downsides, and perhaps even accounts of why other possible approaches were not ... Read more
Thirty years ago, I first entered the dark realm of software engineering, through a prior interest in documentation. In those days, documentation pretty much meant functional specifications. The idea that stakeholders in a system (its implementers, its end-users, its maintainers, and so forth) might want something other than an alphabetic list of function definitions was just taking hold. There was an exciting (to me) vision of stakeholders accessing and contributing to explanations of how and why aspects of a system work as they do, tradeoff analysis of concomitant downsides, and perhaps even accounts of why other possible approaches were not ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Number of Pages
434
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540309970
SKU
V9783540309970
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Reviews for Rationale Management in Software Engineering
Ten years ago, with Tom Moran, I edited a book entitled "Design Rationale." I think that book has held up quite well, though a decade onward it does seem a bit prefatory. It is past time for another detailed summary of research on design rationale. Allen Dutoit, Ray McCall, Ivan Mistrik and Barbara Paech have done an excellent job of ... Read more