Have you ever been on a project where software development worked beautifully
but developing and maintaining the database always caused unexpected problems
and bugs? Do your changes constantly get overwritten by other developers, or
is only one person at a time allowed to make changes? Do you find, after two
or three major releases, that it's impossible to create upgrade scripts for
existing production databases? After experiencing these frustrations and
more, I decided to address them.
In this article, I will take a close look at the problems that many software
projects face with database development, analyze the cause, and recommend
best practices to work around them. The good news is that with the tools
available today, you will be able to give a considerable boost to your
database development process (even though there is still room for
improvement). The bad ne... (more)
In Part II of our Software Factories article series we want to highlight how
the theory, which we introduced in the first part, translates into practice.
One of the things we found out while working with Software Factories is that
people quickly get a better understanding just by seeing what a factory can
look like. So, now we'll walk you through examples of deliverables for a
Software Factory case study. Detailed examples of these deliverables are also
discussed in our book Practical Software Factories in .NET, which gives a
complete Software Factory case study.
Figure 1 is an ... (more)
There is a lot of commotion and hope around Software Factories in the
community today, which was originally sparked by the Software Factories book
of Jack Greenfield and Keith Short. The promise is that Software Factories
will streamline and automate software development to become more efficient
and produce higher quality software. However, at the same time there is a lot
of confusion about what Software Factories really are and how to implement
them.
In the first part of our Software Factory series we start with working out
the problems we face in software development today, wh... (more)
Christoph Wienands is software engineer at Siemens Corporate Research, NJ. He received his Diplom-Informatiker (FH) at the University of Applied Sciences in Furtwangen, Germany. His current research activities include software factories, model-driven development, and domain-specific languages. Due to his research activities he is frequent speaker at conferences such as UML World and SD West.
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