Skip to Main Content
Software Essentials
book

Software Essentials

by Adair Dingle
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
436 pages
12h 27m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Content preview from Software Essentials
28 Software Essentials
Whatever its form, documentation should provide an overview of the
system as well as its core functionality: developers should not depend on
a serial analysis of individual components to comprehend the form and
eect of a system. Developers gain at best a module-level perspective if
they must depend on perusing individual components for descriptions.
A module-based perspective inhibits parallel development: programmer
A cannot develop module X while programmer B develops module Y if
module X is dependent on the design of module Y. Complex soware sys-
tems require a “summary model.”
Internal documentation should c ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Software Architect’s Handbook

Software Architect’s Handbook

Joseph Ingeno
Economics-Driven Software Architecture

Economics-Driven Software Architecture

Ivan Mistrik, Rami Bahsoon, Rick Kazman, Yuanyuan Zhang
Software Architect Bootcamp

Software Architect Bootcamp

Raphael Malveau, Ph.D. Thomas J. Mowbray

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781439841204