ENGINEERING LONG-LASTING SOFTWARE: AN AGILE APPROACH USING SAAS AND CLOUD COMPUTING, BETA EDITION

(note: this beta edition may contain errors. see http://saasbook.info for details.) 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. see http://saasbook.info for details.