Full Description
This textbook presents a concise introduction to the fundamental principles of software engineering, together with practical guidance on how to apply the theory in a real-world, industrial environment. The wide-ranging coverage encompasses all areas of software design, management, and quality.
Topics and features: presents a broad overview of software engineering, including software lifecycles and phases in software development, and project management for software engineering; examines the areas of requirements engineering, software configuration management, software inspections, software testing, software quality assurance, and process quality; covers topics on software metrics and problem solving, software reliability and dependability, and software design and development, including Agile approaches; explains formal methods, a set of mathematical techniques to specify and derive a program from its specification, introducing the Z specification language; discusses software process improvement, describing the CMMI model, and introduces UML, a visual modelling language for software systems; reviews a range of tools to support various activities in software engineering, and offers advice on the selection and management of a software supplier; describes such innovations in the field of software as distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, software as a service, cloud computing, and embedded systems; includes key learning topics, summaries and review questions in each chapter, together with a useful glossary.
This practical and easy-to-follow textbook/reference is ideal for computer science students seeking to learn how to build high quality and reliable software on time and on budget. The text also serves as a self-study primer for software engineers, quality professionals, and software managers.
Contents
1. Fundamentals of Software Engineering.- 2. Ethics and Professional Responsibility.- 3. Ethical Software Engineering.- 4. Software Project Management.- 5. Requirements Engineering.- 6. Software Design and Development.- 7. Software Inspections.- 8. Software Testing.- 9. Data Science and Privacy.- 10. Software Metrics and Problem Solving.- 11. Supplier Selection and Management.- 12. Configuration Management.- 13. Software Quality Assurance.- 14. Agile Methodology.- 15. Software Reliability and Dependability.- 16. Formal Methods.- 17. Z Specification Language.
