Pearson Software Architecture: PERSPEC

by Garlan Shaw

Appropriate for special topic courses on Software Architecture or as an inexpensive supplement to software engineering courses Shaw and Garland examine the useful abstractions and paradigms of system design as well as key notations and tools. They present an introduction to software architecture that illustrates the current state of the discipline and examines ways in which architectural issues can impact software design.

Genres: Software, Architecture, Technical, Computer Science, Technology, Programming

190 pages, Paperback

First published April 12, 1996

Reviews

[Christoph Kappel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book really reminded me on books for lectures during my university time. I know this book is quite old, but still it felt a bit too heavy and the academic approaches with the models and the Z language didn't help here either.

What I found interesting though was the comparison of different architecture approaches for concrete examples, like the robot ones, although I think the results are a bit difficult to grasp.

And I also liked the points about migration from craftsmanship to engineering: My impression is we we still didn't achieve this yet.

[Dave · Rating 4 out of 5]

A mixed bag, some parts of this book were so profound I lingered for hours on a single sentence, other parts were banal descriptions of abstract software architecture style so dull that when I picked the book up again I had forgotten the context of the entire chapter.

[Anurag]

ok

[José Luis · Rating 5 out of 5]

The first serious work on emerging architectural patterns. A remarkable book that paved the way to the development of software architectures.