In Continuous Architecture in Practice, three leading software architecture experts update the classic practices of the discipline for contemporary environments, software development contexts, and applications. Coverage includes:

- Discover what has changed, and how the role of the architect must change

- Reflect the quality attributes of today in evolvable architectures

- Understand team-based software architecture, and architecture as a GÇ£flow of decisionsGÇ¥

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Bestselling Programming Tutorial and Reference Completely Rewritten for the New C++11 Standard Fully updated and recast for the newly released C++11 standard, this authoritative and comprehensive introduction to C++ will help you to learn the language fast, and to use it in modern, highly effective ways. Highlighting today's best practices, the authors show how to use both the core language and its standard library to write efficient, readable, and powerful code. C++ Primer, Fifth Edition, in...

SummaryMock Objects is an approach to Test-Driven Development that changes theway programmers think about code. It encourages them to think about howobjects interact with each other, rather than just how they work in isolation - asthe founders of Object Oriented programming intended. Objects should bedefined in terms of what they do, not what they are. Using Mock Objects withTest-Driven Development guides developers towards code with clearly focusedobjects and an emphasis on behavior over dat...

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Focuses on the design and implementation of the concurrency features added to the Java platform in Java 5.0 and Java 6. This title is suitable for Java developers.