The "Software Factories" book

Wiley has lately published a book titled "Software Factories", written by Greenfield and Short. Having just finished the book, I must say it is interesting reading.

If you are interested in concepts like Model Driven Development (MDD), Model Driven Architectures (MDAs), this book is something for you. It also contains good introductions to these topics.

However, the main idea of the book is to establish a way to make the science of software development more mature, but without forgetting the RAD development fashion.

Although the book stays in a rather abstract level (this is the idea), one can find many practical tips and ideas from this book.

Also interesting is the book's view that UML isn't well suited for being the blueprint of software.

Recommended reading. Next, I'm going to focus on Microsoft Press' book about writing secure code.