Public Lecture: Software Product Lines
The Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) at Wits University hosted
Dr Paul Clements
from the Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, USA
Paul Clements, a leading international authority on software architecture and co-author of 5 books and numerous papers and conference presentations, was visiting South Africa to attend the ICSE Conference in Cape Town.
On Friday 30th April the JCSE hosted a public lecture at Wits University. Paul Clements talked on "Software Product Lines".
BIOGRAPHY
Dr Paul Clements is one of the world's leading authorities in the field of software architecture. He is a senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh USA.
Before coming to the SEI in 1994, Dr. Clements worked for the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. There, he participated in (and eventually led) the Software Cost Reduction or "A-7" project. This project produced and validated a methodology for hard-real-time embedded software development for systems with long life-cycles by re-designing and re-implementing the avionics software for the Navy's A-7E aircraft.
Clements played a key role in pioneering techniques in modular software design, requirements engineering and specification, software architecture and architectural structures, interface specification and documentation, and real-time performance engineering.
Paul Clements is a co-author of the following books:
Software Architecture in Practice, with L. Bass and R. Kazman. 458 pages. Addison Wesley Longman, 1998. Winner, Jolt productivity award, 1999. Second edition, ~500 pages, spring 2003.
Constructing Superior Software, Editor and chapter author. With L. Belady, S. L. Pfleeger, A. Wasserman, P. Freeman, et al., 200 pages, MacMillan Technical Publishing, 1999.
Software Product Lines: Practices and Patterns, with L. Northrop. Addison Wesley Longman, 530 pages, September 2001.
Evaluating Software Architectures: Methods and Case Studies, with R. Kazman and M. Klein. Addison Wesley Longman, 323 pages, October 2001.
Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, with F. Bachmann, L. Bass, D. Garlan, J. Ivers, R. Little, R. Nord, and J. Stafford, Addison Wesley Longman, 560 pages, September 2002.