In those days were software development is outsourced or companies are acquired and merged frequently, the problem of transferring the ownership of applications and software is more than relevant. In his book “Software Ownership Transfer: Evolving Knowledge Transfer for the Agile World”, Vinod Sankaranarayanan, explores this topic from both a theoretical and a practical point of view. (more…)
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The Rise and Fall of Software Recipes
His name is Darius Blasband and he is a codeaholic. This is how one of the first chapter of the book The Rise and Fall of Software Recipes is titled. You should therefore expect to read this book as a conversation that you could have with a colleague in his 50s around a glass of nice (Belgian) beer. There are some recipes and a lot of software in this book, but everything is written from a very personal point of view. (more…)
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Software Configuration Management Handbook
This book is the third edition of the Software Configuration Management Handbook written by Alexis Leon. The first edition was first published in 2000. This books aims to explain what software configuration management is and how it should be practiced in the software development process. (more…)
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Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
Object orientation (OO) is not a trendy concept these days, but it hasn’t certainly lost it values. The purpose of this book is to integrate the development of object oriented software with the test-driven development (TDD) approach, more specifically in Java. It starts with an introduction to TDD and the tools (Junit, jMock2) that will be used. It describes then in detail the TDD process that is then illustrated by a large example. The book ends with more software testing topics like tests smells or tests readability. A final part is dedicated to special aspects of testing like persistence, threads and asynchronous code. (more…)