Engineering software as a service :

Fox, Armando.

Engineering software as a service : an agile approach using cloud computing / by Armando Fox and David Patterson. - 1st Edition - San Francisco, CA : Strawberry Canyon LLC, 2014. - xxii, 478 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"August 20, 2013." "Text for the free Massive Open Online Course CS169.1x and CS169.2x from UC Berkeley and EdX ... the only prerequisite is mastery of Java or C++"--Page [4] of cover. Cover title.

Introduction to SaaS and agile development --
The architecture of SaaS applications --
SaaS framework: introduction to ruby --
SaaS framework: Introduction to Rails --
SaaS framework: advanced rails --
SaaS clien framework: JavaSchipt introduction --
Requirements: BDD and user stories --
Testing: test-driven development --
Maintenance: Legacy, refactoring and agile --
Project management: Scrum, Paris, and VCS --
Design patterns for SaaS classes --
Performance, releases, reliability, and security.

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. A free MOOC (massively open online course) at saas-class.org follows the book's content and adds programming assignments and quizzes. -- Provided by publisher.

9780984881246 (pbk)


Software engineering.
Cloud computing.

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