Flexible, Reliable Software: Using Patterns and Agile Development (Hardcover)

Flexible, Reliable Software: Using Patterns and Agile Development guides students through the software development process. By describing practical stories, explaining the design and programming process in detail, and using projects as a learning context, the text helps readers understand why a given technique is required and why techniques must be combined to overcome the challenges facing software developers.

The presentation is pedagogically organized as a realistic development story in which customer requests require introducing new techniques to combat ever-increasing software complexity. After an overview and introduction of basic terminology, the book presents the core practices, concepts, tools, and analytic skills for designing flexible and reliable software, including test-driven development, refactoring, design patterns, test doubles, and responsibility driven and compositional design. It then provides a collection of design patterns leading to a thorough discussion of frameworks, exemplified by a graphical user interface frramework (MiniDraw). The author also discusses the important topics of configuration management and systematic testing. In the last chapter, projects lead students to design and implement their own frameworks, resulting in a reliable and usable implementation of a large and complex software system complete with a graphical user interface.

This text teaches  how to design, program, and maintain flexible and reliable software. Installation guides, source code for the examples, exercises, and projects can be found on the author’s website.

《靈活可靠的軟體：使用模式和敏捷開發》引導學生進入軟體開發過程。通過描述實際案例，詳細解釋設計和編程過程，並以項目作為學習背景，本書幫助讀者理解為什麼需要特定的技術，以及為什麼必須結合多種技術來克服軟體開發者面臨的挑戰。

本書以教學組織為基礎，以一個現實的開發故事為脈絡，客戶需求需要引入新技術來應對日益增加的軟體複雜性。在概述和基本術語介紹之後，本書介紹了設計靈活可靠軟體所需的核心實踐、概念、工具和分析技能，包括測試驅動開發、重構、設計模式、測試替身和責任驅動和組合設計。然後，本書提供了一系列設計模式，並深入討論了框架，以一個圖形用戶界面框架（MiniDraw）作為示例。作者還討論了配置管理和系統測試等重要主題。在最後一章中，項目引導學生設計和實現自己的框架，從而實現一個可靠且可用的大型複雜軟體系統，包括圖形用戶界面。

本書教授如何設計、編程和維護靈活可靠的軟體。安裝指南、示例的源代碼、練習和項目可以在作者的網站上找到。