New Software Development Links Directory
Published May 26th, 2008 Under Methods & Tools, Software Development | Leave a Comment
SoftDevLinks.com is a new general directory for software developers, testers and managers. If you have a blog, a web site, distribute a tool or work a consulting company related to software development, do not hesitate to add a (free) link in this directory.
Book: UML 2.0 in Action – A Project Based Tutorial
Published May 26th, 2008 Under Books | Leave a Comment
This book from Henriette Baumann, Philippe Baumann and Patrick Graessle is a very good introduction to the power of modeling with UML. After an initial presentation of the basic principles of modeling and UML, the book presents the diagrams used to model both business and software views of systems. The final part is devoted to the models that can be used for system integration.
All the diagrams are presented through the same case study. This book does not claim to be a detailed presentation of UML. It achieves with its case study to reach a good balance between providing enough knowledge to be used in real life situations, without being lost in features that are rarely used. The nicest aspect of this book is that it is not only a technical manual on UML diagrams, but it provides also valuable information and tips on how to create and verify them, by providing questions that will help you to conduct your analysis. This is a book that I will recommend as a reference for developers performing system analysis and design activities. It is also a good practical book for students that follow an UML course.
Packt Publishing ISBN: 1904811558, Paperback: 248 pages
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New Conferences Partnerships
Published May 19th, 2008 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment
Methods & Tools is proud to have been chosen as media partner by the following software development conferences
QA&TEST: International Conference on Embedded Software Testing, October 29-31 2008, Bilbao, Spain
HP Acquires EDS: Too Much and Too Soon?
Published May 14th, 2008 Under News, Software Development | Leave a Comment
HP and EDS today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase EDS at a price of $25.00 per share, or an enterprise value of approximately $13.9 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of calendar year 2008 and to more than double HP’s services revenue, which amounted to $16.6 billion in fiscal 2007. The companies’ collective services businesses, as of the end of each company’s 2007 fiscal year, had annual revenues of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees. HP intends to establish a new business group, to be branded EDS – an HP company, which will be headquartered at EDS’s existing executive offices in Plano, Texas. HP plans that EDS will continue to be led after the deal closes by EDS Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Ronald A. Rittenmeyer, who will join HP’s executive council and report to Mark Hurd, HP’s chairman and chief executive officer. Read more
Team Concert Beta 3 Out
Published May 13th, 2008 Under News, Software Development | 2 Comments
The IBM’s Jazz project has just released the beta number 3 of its Rational Team Concert (also named Rational Team Concert 1.0 RC2), the first product based on the Jazz Team Server. I had the chance to attend recently in Geneva to an interesting presentation given by John Kellerman, the product manager of Jazz. A long time IBM employee, John worked already on the AD/Cycle project and has been a part of Eclipse since its origins in 1998. He gave an insightful speech on how a company can “develop commercial software in an open transparent way”. This means that the development schedule and progress is completely visible and that open interfaces will allow other companies to integrate their products on the Jazz platform, even if some, like source management systems, are competitors of Rational products. For John, the gain achieved by having an open relationship with customers far outweighs the loss of having some code and development schedule visible by the competition. He said also that having Rational executives agree on this was not an easy task. Read more
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