Ebook: Future-Proof Software-Systems: A Sustainable Evolution Strategy

This book focuses on software architecture and the value of architecture in the development of long-lived, mission-critical, trustworthy software-systems. The author introduces and demonstrates the powerful strategy of “Managed Evolution,” along with the engineering best practice known as “Principle-based Architecting.” The book examines in detail architecture principles for e.g., Business Value, Changeability, Resilience, and Dependability.

The author argues that the software development community has a strong responsibility to produce and operate useful, dependable, and trustworthy software. Software should at the same time provide business value and guarantee many quality-of-service properties, including security, safety, performance, and integrity. As Dr. Furrer states, “Producing dependable software is a balancing act between investing in the implementation of business functionality and investing in the quality-of-service properties of the software-systems.”

The book presents extensive coverage of such concepts as:

• Principle-Based Architecting
  
• Managed Evolution Strategy
  
• The Future
  
• Principles for Business Value
  
• Legacy Software Modernization/Migration
  
• Architecture Principles for Changeability
  
• Architecture Principles for Resilience
  
• Architecture Principles for Dependability
  

The text is supplemented with numerous figures, tables, examples and illustrative quotations. Future-Proof Software-Systems provides a set of good engineering practices, devised for integration into most software development processes dedicated to the creation of software-systems that incorporate Managed Evolution.