Engineering Software as a Service

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.