Service-and component-based development : using the select perspective and UML

Presenting the approaches and practices for the construction of software systems using Select Perspective, this book details key workflows for a contemporary approach to supplying, managing and consuming software assets to deliver business IT systems. The text provides a comprehensive development lifestyle for component and Web service based IT solutions, that supports parallel development activities, to reduce time-to-time market. Real world project experience and examples are included.

Author Notes

Hedley Apperly, Ralph Hofman, Steve Latchem, Barry Maybank, Barry McGibbon, David Piper and Chris Simons are all senior managers or consultants at Select Business Solutions, a division of Aonix Corporation

Foreword	p. xi
About the authors	p. xiii
About the organization	p. xv
Preface	p. xvii
The structure of this book	p. xviii
Acknowledgements	p. xxii
Introduction	p. xxiii
1 Introduction to contemporary software development	p. 1
Basics of construction	p. 2
Componentization	p. 3
Conclusion	p. 9
2 Overview of Select Perspective	p. 11
Component-based development	p. 12
Select perspective development life cycle	p. 13
Project types	p. 17
Agile software development	p. 17
Summary	p. 19
3 Supply	p. 20
Making the supply decisions	p. 22
Component delivery	p. 24
Technical architecture	p. 33
Summary	p. 33
4 Manage	p. 34
Acquire component	p. 35
Classify and certify component or service	p. 37
Maintain components	p. 38
Locate and retrieve candidate component	p. 39
Monitoring component and service reuse	p. 40
Summary	p. 41
5 Consume	p. 42
Business alignment	p. 43
Business architecture	p. 52
Technical architecture	p. 63
Solution delivery	p. 67
Solution rollout	p. 75
Maintain and support solution	p. 81
6 Data architecture	p. 84
Data architecture delivery	p. 85
Data architecture analysis	p. 86
Specify information architecture	p. 87
Design data environments	p. 89
Data migration planning	p. 91
Data store construction and rollout	p. 91
Summary	p. 92
7 Project management	p. 93
Increment planning	p. 96
Summary	p. 99
8 Roles	p. 100
9 Techniques	p. 106
10 Deliverables	p. 120
Supply	p. 120
Manage	p. 129
Consume	p. 132
Summary	p. 147
11 Tools	p. 148
Component factories	p. 148
Component managers	p. 149
Visual modeling tools	p. 150
Requirements management	p. 151
Application assemblers	p. 151
Test managers	p. 152
Application animators	p. 152
Patterns	p. 152
O-R mapping	p. 153
Project management tools	p. 153
Process management and rollout tools	p. 154
Epilogue: taking it on	p. 155
Glossary	p. 157
References	p. 165
Further reading	p. 166
Select Cruises Case study	p. 167
Index	p. 207

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