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Engineering Long-Lasting Software: An Agile Approach Using SaaS and Cloud Computing, Alpha Edition
 
 
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Engineering Long-Lasting Software: An Agile Approach Using SaaS and Cloud Computing, Alpha Edition [Kindle Edition]

David Patterson (Author), Armando Fox (Author)
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(NOTE: this Alpha Edition is missing some chapters and may contain errors.) A one-semester college course in software engineering focusing on cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS), and Agile development using Extreme Programming (XP). This book is neither a step-by-step tutorial nor a reference book. Instead, our goal is to bring a diverse set of software engineering topics together into a single narrative, help readers understand the most important ideas through concrete examples and a learn-by-doing approach, and teach readers enough about each topic to get them started in the field. Courseware for doing the work in the book is available as a virtual machine image that can be downloaded or deployed in the cloud.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 3569 KB
  • Print Length: 395 pages
  • Publisher: Strawberry Canyon LLC (1 May 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B006WU5G4C
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #6,794 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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A wide range of topics covered detailing ruby and the agile process in a sass environment, however the book is missing many chapters at least for he kindle edition.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Good book, easy to understand 28 Feb 2012
By Hoang Nguyen - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book is an excellent resource for beginner and developer, who want to know the basic of SAAS. It describe the definition, architecture, and best practices in the easy way. However, don't know why it crash sometime while reading on Kindle basic.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A good book on SaaS concepts based on examples in Ruby on Rails 11 April 2012
By Matija Han - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have bought this book as a supplement for the online UC Berkley course on Software as a Service, and it helped me a lot in absorbing all the covered concepts.

Beware of two things though: this is an Alpha version, so it is very rough, and about half done (half of the chapters are literally missing from the book), and the title is very vague, and doesn't give much info on actual subjects covered. This book provides a good primer in: Ruby, Rails, SaaS concepts and driving ideas, Agile SW development, Cloud computing, GIT usage, Herouku usage, Testing (unit, functional, integration) and Business analysis (all this is covered in the first half which can be found in this Alpha version). The full version promises to tackle a few more subjects, like working with legacy code.

The book comes with some extra material like webcasts and code snippets hosted at Pastebin. These can be quite useful, but are not accessible on all eBook devices.

Needless to say, it is very topic-rich, which results in superficial coverage at some places. Still, in my view it gives a very good basis for further improvement, and it bootstraps you to actually be able to deploy your first web application onto a public cloud server.

Considering the price for the Alpha, I feel it is worth the information you will find within. Also, consider taking the free SaaS class, just Google it :).
12 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Confused about its own topic 10 April 2012
By Ms Green - Published on Amazon.com
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It claims to teach software as a service. What it actually teaches is Agile web development using Rails. Half the book is spent prattling on about why the Agile methodology is the only methodology anyone should use, why Rails is the only framework anyone should use, why Ruby is better than any other language in existence, and why Cucumber is the best testing framework available anywhere, hands down. After reading this book and taking the course I've learned that SaaS doesn't exist, all that exists is cultlike web development. Very disappointing!
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