Better Software Faster

Together: supercharging software development, from start to finish!

Together delivers a superbly integrated set of lifecycle tools for building software with breakthrough quality, efficiency, and performance. Now there's a definitive guide to making the most of Together: Better Software Faster. In this book, two leading Together mentors share the techniques you need to succeed every step of the way—from planning and requirements through development, debugging, delivery, and administration. You'll find detailed examples and practical insights for:

• Leveraging Together's common language, diagrams, and building block components to improve team collaboration
• Mastering TogetherSoft's "Model-Build-Deploy" approach to software development
• Managing the software development process from the Together ControlCenter
• Using Together to simplify modeling, design, and architecture
• Taking advantage of Together's tools for enhancing programmer efficiency and reducing errors

Whether you're an analyst, architect, designer, developer, or manager ... no matter what enterprise technologies you're already using ... this book will help you streamline and supercharge your very next software project ... Together!

The Coad Series: Improving the ways people work together

Every book in the Coad Series (Peter Coad, series editor) delivers practical guidance for building better businesses, and the systems that support them—faster, better, and more easily. Legendary software methodology expert and TogetherSoft founder Peter Coad personally selects authors and books for this series, and works on a strategic level with every author throughout the book development process.

Table of Contents

Foreword.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. Together—The Difference It Makes.
2. The Last Step-Deploy and Run!
3. The First Step: Model the Domain.
4. The Stakeholder Step: Specify Requirements.
5. The Controlling Step: Feature-Centric Management.
6. The Continuous Step: Measure the Quality.
7. The Micro Step: Design and Implement.
8. The Macro Step: Architecture.
9. The J2EE Architecture.
10. Parting Words.
Appendix A: Installing the Case Study Software.
Appendix B: JUnit and JunitX.
Appendix C: Customizing Together with .config files.
Appendix D: Customizing Together's Templates.
Appendix E: Customizing Together's Inspectors.
Appendix F: The RwiSupport Framework.
Appendix G: CarServ Case Study.
Index.