Recommended literature (when to read what: Studyguide)

 

Main text

-         General text

Component Software: Beyond Object Oriented Programming * ,

Clemens Szyperski, Addison-Wesley, (2nd ed, 2002)

 

 

Additional sources / Recommended reading

-         For focus on designing and modelling using UML:

UML Components: A Simple Process for Specifying Component-Based Software,

by John Cheesman, John Daniels, Addison-Wesley, 2000.

 

-         Quite general with emphasis on reuse; includes some academic perspectives as well

Reuse-based Software Engineering: Techniques, Organization, and Controls *,

Hafedh Mili, Ali Mili, Sherif Yacoub and Edward Addy,

Wiley-Interscience, 2002, ISBN 0-471-39819-5

 

-         More oriented towards technical automation

Building Reliable Component-Based Software Systems,

Ivica Crnkovic and Magnus Larsson (editors), Artech House Publishers, ISBN 1-58053-327-2

 

-         Focussed on COTS:

Building Systems from Commercial Components,

Kurt C. Wallnau, Scott A. Hissam & Robert C. Seacord, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-70064-6

 

-         More oriented towards business information systems:

Component-Based Development: Principles and Planning for Business Systems,

Katharine Whitehead, Addison-Wesley, 2002.

 

-         Measuring Software Reuse: Principles, Practices and Economic Models,

Jeffrey Poulin, Addison Wesley, 1997

 

 

 



* Consider www.amazon.de for relatively cheap ways of acquiring these books

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