{"product_id":"come-lets-play","title":"Come, Let's Play: Scenario-Based Programming Using LSCs and the Play-Engine","description":"This book does not tell a story. Instead, it is about stories. Or rather, in technical terms, it is about scenarios. Scenarios of system behavior. It con­ centrates on reactive systems, be they software or hardware, or combined computer-embedded systems, including distributed and real-time systems. We propose a different way to program such systems, centered on inter­ object scenario-based behavior. The book describes a language, two tech­ niques, and a supporting tool. The language is a rather broad extension of live sequence charts (LSCs), the original version of which was proposed in 1998 by W. Damm and the first-listed author of this book. The first of the two techniques, called play-in, is a convenient way to 'play in' scenario­ based behavior directly from the system's graphical user interface (QUI). The second technique, play-out, makes it possible to execute, or 'play out', the behavior on the QUI as if it were programmed in a conventional intra­ object state-based fashion. All this is implemented in full in our tool, the Play-Engine. The book can be viewed as offering improvements in some ofthe phases of known system development life cycles, e.g., requirements capture and anal­ ysis, prototyping, and testing. However, there is a more radical way to view the book, namely, as proposing an alternative way to program reactivity, which, being based on inter-object scenarios, is a lot closer to how people think about systems and their behavior.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46220849807570,"sku":"9783642624162","price":80.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46220849840338,"sku":"9783540007876","price":71.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_130ca213-0336-400d-a99f-e81c92f44d05.jpg?v=1762964418","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/come-lets-play","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}