Software Architecture

by Mary Shaw

New

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

Paperback

First published April 12, 1996

About the author

an American software engineer, and the Alan J. Perlis Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for her work in the field of software architecture

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.