Bioinformatics Software Engineering

Paul Weston 지음

Wiley 2005년 09월 01일 출간

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Bioinformatics Software Engineering: Delivering Effective Applications will be useful to anyone who wants to understand how successful software can be developed in a rapidly changing environment.A handbook, not a textbook, it is not tied to any particular operating system, platform, language, or methodology. Instead it focuses on principles and practices that have been proven in the real world.It is pragmatic, emphasizing the importance of what the author calls Adaptive Programming - doing what works in your situation, and it is concise, covering the whole software development lifecycle in one slim volume.At each stage, it describes common pitfalls, explains how these can be avoided, and suggests simple techniques which make it easier to deliver better solutions.quot;Well thought-out ... addresses many of the key issues facing developers of bioinformatics software.quot; (Simon Dear, Director, UK Technology and Development, Bioinformatics Engineering and Integration, Genetics Research, GlaxoSmithKline)Here are some examples from the book itself.On software development:"Writing software properly involves talking to people ~ often lots of people ~ and plenty of non-coding work on your part. It requires the ability to dream up new solutions to problems so complicated that they are hard to describe."From description to specification:"Look for verbs ~ action words, such as -does-, -is- and -views-. Identify nouns ~ naming words, like -user-, -home- and -sequence-. List the adjectives ~ describing wo

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PrefaceList of figures.Acknowledgements.PART 1: INTRODUCTION.1. What You Need to Know.2. What Is Software Engineering?PART 2: BEFORE BEGINNING.3. Project Definition.4. Requirements Capture.5. Separating Function, Interface and Implementation.6. Implementation Considerations.7. Proof of Concept, Prototyping and Buy-in.PART 3: GETTING IT DONE.8. Data in, Data out and Data Transformation.9. Where to Start?10. Functional, then Optimized.11. Coding Style.PART 4: FOR SOME VALUES OF DONE.12. Writing the Friendly Manual.13. Testing &~ What and When.14. Rollout and Delivery.15. Support and Feedback.16. Planned and Unplanned Enhancements.17 Project Signoff.Index.

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저자(글) Paul Weston

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Paul Weston has nearly two decades- experience in application development, gained in environments as diverse as entrepreneurial start-ups and monolithic bureaucracies. From MVS to XP, from COBOL to Java, and from Structured Programming to Struts - he has wrestled with them all.He began developing bioinformatics applications in the mid-1990s and has particular expertise in sequence assembly and sequence data management. He is now a director of Woodcock Stewart, a consultancy specializing in bioinformatics software development and developer training.