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Software Engineering: A Methodical Approach, 2nd Edition
by Elvis C. Foster Bradford A. Towle Jr.Software Engineering: A Methodical Approach (Second Edition) provides a comprehensive, but concise introduction to software engineering. It adopts a methodical approach to solving software engineering problems, proven over several years of teaching, with outstanding results. The book covers concepts, principles, design, construction, implementation, and management issues of software engineering. Each chapter is organized systematically into brief, reader-friendly sections, with itemization of the important points to be remembered. Diagrams and illustrations also sum up the salient points to enhance learning. Additionally, the book includes the author’s original methodologies that add clarity and creativity to the software engineering experience. New in the Second Edition are chapters on software engineering projects, management support systems, software engineering frameworks and patterns as a significant building block for the design and construction of contemporary software systems, and emerging software engineering frontiers. The text starts with an introduction of software engineering and the role of the software engineer. The following chapters examine in-depth software analysis, design, development, implementation, and management. Covering object-oriented methodologies and the principles of object-oriented information engineering, the book reinforces an object-oriented approach to the early phases of the software development life cycle. It covers various diagramming techniques and emphasizes object classification and object behavior. The text features comprehensive treatments of: Project management aids that are commonly used in software engineering An overview of the software design phase, including a discussion of the software design process, design strategies, architectural design, interface design, database design, and design and development standards User interface design Operations design Design considerations including system catalog, product documentation, user message management, design for real-time software, design for reuse, system security, and the agile effect Human resource management from a software engineering perspective Software economics Software implementation issues that range from operating environments to the marketing of software Software maintenance, legacy systems, and re-engineering This textbook can be used as a one-semester or two-semester course in software engineering, augmented with an appropriate CASE or RAD tool. It emphasizes a practical, methodical approach to software engineering, avoiding an overkill of theoretical calculations where possible. The primary objective is to help students gain a solid grasp of the activities in the software development life cycle to be confident about taking on new software engineering projects.
Software Engineering: Basic Principles and Best Practices
by Ravi SethiSoftware engineering is as much about teamwork as it is about technology. This introductory textbook covers both. For courses featuring a team project, it offers tips and templates for aligning classroom concepts with the needs of the students' projects. Students will learn how software is developed in industry by adopting agile methods, discovering requirements, designing modular systems, selecting effective tests, and using metrics to track progress. The book also covers the 'why' behind the 'how-to', to prepare students for advances in industry practices. The chapters explore ways of eliciting what users really want, how clean architecture divides and conquers the inherent complexity of software systems, how test coverage is essential for detecting the inevitable defects in code, and much more. Ravi Sethi provides real-life case studies and examples to demonstrate practical applications of the concepts. Online resources include sample project materials for students, and lecture slides for instructors.
Software Engineering: Challenges and Solutions
by Lech Madeyski Michał Śmiałek Bogumiła Hnatkowska Zbigniev HuzarThis book presents the proceedings of the KKIO Software Engineering Conference held in Wroc aw, Poland in September 15-17, 2016. It contains the carefully reviewed and selected scientific outcome of the conference, which had the motto: Better software = more efficient enterprise: challenges and solutions . Following this mission, this book is a compilation of challenges and needs of the industry, as well as research findings and achievements that could address the posed problems in software engineering. Some of these challenges included in the book are: increasing levels of abstraction for programming constructs, increasing levels of software reuse, increasing levels of automation, optimizing software development cycles. The book provides a platform for communication between researchers, young and established, and practitioners. "
Software Engineering: Proceedings of 14th Computer Science On-line Conference 2025, Volume 4 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1561)
by Radek Silhavy Petr SilhavyThis book discovers peer-reviewed research from an international research conference that unites experts in software engineering, data science, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and informatics. This book presents cutting-edge methods, practical case studies, and foundational advances that address real-world challenges across the computational spectrum. Whether you seek rigorous theory, proven development practices, or visionary perspectives on emerging technologies, this book provides a comprehensive resource for researchers, practitioners, and students committed to shaping the future of digital systems.
Software Engineering: Proceedings of 14th Computer Science Online Conference 2025, Volume 2 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1559)
by Radek Silhavy Petr SilhavyThis book discovers peer-reviewed research from an international research conference that unites experts in software engineering, data science, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and informatics. This book presents cutting-edge methods, practical case studies, and foundational advances that address real-world challenges across the computational spectrum. Whether you seek rigorous theory, proven development practices, or visionary perspectives on emerging technologies, this book provides a comprehensive resource for researchers, practitioners, and students committed to shaping the future of digital systems.
Software Engineering: Proceedings of CSI 2015 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #731)
by M. N. Hoda Naresh Chauhan S. M. Quadri Praveen Ranjan SrivastavaThis book presents selected proceedings of the annual convention of the Computer Society of India. Divided into 10 topical volumes, the proceedings present papers on state-of-the-art research, surveys, and succinct reviews. They cover diverse topics ranging from communications networks to big data analytics, and from system architecture to cyber security. This book focuses on Software Engineering, and informs readers about the state of the art in software engineering by gathering high-quality papers that represent the outcomes of consolidated research and innovations in Software Engineering and related areas. In addition to helping practitioners and researchers understand the chief issues involved in designing, developing, evolving and validating complex software systems, it provides comprehensive information on developing professional careers in Software Engineering. It also provides insights into various research issues such as software reliability, verification and validation, security and extensibility, as well as the latest concepts like component-based development, software process models, process-driven systems and human-computer collaborative systems.
Software Engineering: The Current Practice (Chapman & Hall/CRC Innovations in Software Engineering and Software Development Series)
by Vaclav RajlichThis text teaches students basic software engineering skills and helps practitioners refresh their knowledge and explore recent developments in the field, including software changes and iterative processes of software development. The book discusses the software change and its phases, including concept location, impact analysis, refactoring, actualization, and verification. It then covers the most common iterative processes: agile, directed, and centralized processes. The text also journeys through the initial development of software from scratch to the final stages that lead toward software closedown.
Software Engineering: Theory and Practice (Fourth Edition)
by Shari Lawrence Pfleeger Joanne M. AtleeThis introduction to software engineering and practice addresses both procedural and object-oriented development. This edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect significant changes in software engineering, including modeling and agile methods. Emphasizes essential role of modeling design in software engineering. Applies concepts consistently to two common examples -- a typical information system and a real-time system. Combines theory with real, practical applications by providing an abundance of case studies and examples from the current literature. A useful reference for software engineers.
Software Essentials: Design and Construction (Chapman & Hall/CRC Innovations in Software Engineering and Software Development Series)
by Adair DingleWinner of a 2015 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award, Software Essentials: Design and Construction explicitly defines and illustrates the basic elements of software design and construction, providing a solid understanding of control flow, abstract data types (ADTs), memory, type relationships, and dynamic behavior. This text evaluates the benefits and overhe
Software Estimation Without Guessing: Effective Planning in an Imperfect World
by George DinwiddieEstimating software development often produces more angst than value, but it doesn't have to. Identify the needs behind estimate requests and determine how to meet those needs simply and easily. Choose estimation techniques based on current needs and available information, gaining benefit while reducing cost and effort. Detect bad assumptions that might sink your project if you don't adjust your plans. Discover what to do when an estimate is wrong, how to recover, and how to use that knowledge for future planning. Learn to communicate about estimates in a healthy and productive way, maximizing advantage to the organization and minimizing damage to the people. In a world where most developers hate estimation and most managers fear disappointment with the results, there is hope for both. It requires giving up some widely held misconceptions. Let go of the notion that "an estimate is an estimate" and estimate for the particular need you, and your organization, have. Realize that estimates have a limited shelf-life, and reestimate frequently if it's important. When reality differs from your estimate, don't lament; mine that disappointment for the gold that can be the longer-term jackpot. Estimate in comparison to past experience, by modeling the work mathematically, or a hybrid of both. Learn strategies for effective decomposition of work and aspects of the work that likely affect your estimates. Hedge your bets by comparing the results of different approaches. Find out what to do when an estimate proves wrong. And they will. They're estimates, after all. You'll discover that you can use estimates to warn you of danger so you can take appropriate action in time. Learn some crucial techniques to understand and communicate with those who need to understand. Address both the technical and sociological aspects of estimation, and you'll help your organization achieve its desired goals with less drama and more benefit. What You Need: No software needed, just your past experience and concern for the outcomes.
Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art
by Steve McconnellOften referred to as the "black art" because of its complexity and uncertainty, software estimation is not as difficult or puzzling as people think. In fact, generating accurate estimates is straightforward--once you understand the art of creating them. In his highly anticipated book, acclaimed author Steve McConnell unravels the mystery to successful software estimation--distilling academic information and real-world experience into a practical guide for working software professionals. Instead of arcane treatises and rigid modeling techniques, this guide highlights a proven set of procedures, understandable formulas, and heuristics that individuals and development teams can apply to their projects to help achieve estimation proficiency. Discover how to: Estimate schedule and cost--or estimate the functionality that can be delivered within a given time frame Avoid common software estimation mistakes Learn estimation techniques for you, your team, and your organization * Estimate specific project activities--including development, management, and defect correction Apply estimation approaches to any type of project--small or large, agile or traditional Navigate the shark-infested political waters that surround project estimates When many corporate software projects are failing, McConnell shows you what works for successful software estimation.
Software Evangelism and the Rhetoric of Morality: Coding Justice in a Digital Democracy (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication)
by Jennifer Helene MaherExamining the layers of meaning encoded in software and the rhetoric surrounding it, this book offers a much-needed perspective on the intersections between software, morality, and politics. In software development culture, evangelism typically denotes a rhetorical practice that aims to convert software developers, as well as non-technical lay users, from one platform to another (e.g., from the operating system Microsoft Windows to Linux). This book argues that software evangelism, like its religious counterpart, must also be understood as constructing moral and political values that extend well beyond the boundaries of the development culture. Unlike previous studies that locate such values in the effects of code in-use or in certain types of code like free and open source (FOSS) software, Maher argues that all code is meaningful beyond its technical, executable functions. To facilitate this analysis, this study builds a theory of evangelism and illustrates this theory at work in the proprietary software industry and FOSS communities. As an example of political liberalism at work at the level of code, these evangelical rhetorics of software construct competing conceptions of what is good that fall within a shared belief in what is just. Maher illustrates how these beliefs in goodness and justice do not always execute in replicable ways, as the different ways of decoding software evangelisms in the contexts of Brazil and China reveal. Demonstrating how software evangelisms exert a transformative force on the world, one comparable in significance to code itself, this book highlights the importance of rhetoric in even the most seemingly a-rhetorical of technical endeavors and foregrounds the crucial need for rhetorical literacy in the digital age.
Software Evolution and Maintenance
by Kshirasagar Naik Priyadarshi TripathySoftware Evolution and Maintenance: A Practitioner's Approach is an accessible textbook for students and professionals, which collates the advances in software development and provides the most current models and techniques in maintenance.Explains two maintenance standards: IEEE/EIA 1219 and ISO/IEC14764Discusses several commercial reverse and domain engineering toolkitsSlides for instructors are available onlineInformation is based on the IEEE SWEBOK (Software Engineering Body of Knowledge)
Software Extension to the PMBOK Guide
by Project Management InstituteDesigned to be used in tandem with the latest edition of the PMBOK Guide, this comprehensive volume closely follows the PMBOK Guide's approach to style, structure and naming, while providing readers a balanced view of methods, tools, and techniques for managing software projects across the life cycle continuum from highly predictive life cycles to highly adaptive life cycles. Software Extension to the PMBOK Guide Fifth Edition provides readers with knowledge and practices that will not only improve their efficiency and effectiveness but that of their management teams and project members as well.
Software Fault Detection and Correction: Modeling and Applications (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)
by Yu Liu Rui Peng Yan-Fu LiThis book focuses on software fault detection and correction processes, presenting 5 different paired models introduced over the last decade and discussing their applications, in particular to determining software release time. The first work incorporates the testing effort function and the fault introduction process into the paired fault detection and fault correction models. The second work incorporates fault dependency, while the third adopts a Markov approach for studying fault detection and correction processes. The fourth work considers the multi-release property of various software, and models fault detection and correction processes. The last work classifies faults into four types and models the fault-detection and correction processes. Enabling readers to familiarize themselves with how software reliability can be modeled when different factors need to be considered, and how the approaches can be used to analyze other systems, the book is important reference guide for researchers in the field of software reliability engineering and practitioners working on software projects. To gain the most from the book, readers should have a firm grasp of the fundamentals of the stochastic process.
Software Fault Prediction: A Road Map (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)
by Sandeep Kumar Santosh Singh RathoreThis book focuses on exploring the use of software fault prediction in building reliable and robust software systems. It is divided into the following chapters: Chapter 1 presents an introduction to the study and also introduces basic concepts of software fault prediction. Chapter 2 explains the generalized architecture of the software fault prediction process and discusses its various components. In turn, Chapter 3 provides detailed information on types of fault prediction models and discusses the latest literature on each model. Chapter 4 describes the software fault datasets and diverse issues concerning fault datasets when building fault prediction models. Chapter 5 presents a study evaluating different techniques on the basis of their performance for software fault prediction. Chapter 6 presents another study evaluating techniques for predicting the number of faults in the software modules. In closing, Chapter 7 provides a summary of the topics discussed. The book will be of immense benefit to all readers who are interested in starting research in this area. In addition, it offers experienced researchers a valuable overview of the latest work in this area.
Software Fault Prevention, Verification, and Validation: First International Symposium, SFPVV 2024, Hiroshima, Japan, December 2–3, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15393)
by Shaoying LiuThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Symposium on Software Fault Prevention, Verification, and Validation, SFPVV 2024, held in Hiroshima, Japan, during December 2–3, 2024. The 18 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. This SFPVV 2024 symposium encourages the exchange of ideas and discussion on how formal methods, testing-based techniques, AI-driven approaches, and their combinations can be explored, established, and refined to achieve the goals of software fault preven tion, verification, and validation.
Software For Dependable Systems: Sufficient Evidence?
by National Research Council of the National AcademiesThe National Academies Press (NAP)--publisher for the National Academies--publishes more than 200 books a year offering the most authoritative views, definitive information, and groundbreaking recommendations on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health. Our books are unique in that they are authored by the nation's leading experts in every scientific field.
Software Foundations for Data Interoperability and Large Scale Graph Data Analytics: 4th International Workshop, SFDI 2020, and 2nd International Workshop, LSGDA 2020, held in Conjunction with VLDB 2020, Tokyo, Japan, September 4, 2020, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1281)
by Wei Wang Ying Zhang Lu Qin Wenjie Zhang You Peng Hiroyuki Kato Chuan XiaoThis book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Foundations for Data Interoperability, SFDI 2020, and 2nd International Workshop on Large Scale Graph Data Analytics, LSGDA 2020, held in Conjunction with VLDB 2020, in September 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 11 full papers and 4 short papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The volme presents original research and application papers on the development of novel graph analytics models, scalable graph analytics techniques and systems, data integration, and data exchange.
Software Foundations for Data Interoperability: 5th International Workshop, SFDI 2021, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 16, 2021, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1457)
by George Fletcher Keisuke Nakano Yuya SasakiThis book constitutes selected papers presented at the 5th International Workshop on Software Foundations for Data Interoperability, SFDI 2021, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in August 2021. The 4 full papers and one short paper were thorougly reviewed and selected from 8 submissions. They present discussions in research and development in software foundations for data interoperability as well as the applications in real-world systems such as data markets.
Software Life Cycle Management Standards
by David WrightThe advent of ISO/IEC 19770 is a leap forward for all who have an interest in the software life cycle, from designer to consumer. In five parts, three of which are still under development, the Standard defines best practice for all aspects of software asset management and introduces SWID (software identification) tags and SWEID (software licensing entitlement) tags. Software Publishers - your route to financial rewards This book will guide you along the implementation path by: defining each part of ISO/IEC 19770 and what each one means for your business discussing the software life cycle from the perception of all parties involved showing you how the SWID and SWEID tagging systems will help you obtain vital information about your customers software needs and usage helping you meet those needs and, consequently, enjoy increased customer loyalty, leading to more sales! showing you how the Standard can help you fine-tune your processes helping you realize financial savings.
Software Maintenance Success Recipes
by Donald J. ReiferSoftware Maintenance Success Recipes identifies actionable formulas for success based on in-depth analysis of more than 200 real-world maintenance projects. It details the set of factors that are usually present when effective software maintenance teams do their work and instructs on the methods required to achieve success. Donald J. Reifer-an award winner for his contributions to the field of software engineering-provides step-by-step guidance on how to structure the job to complete all of the work related to the task.
Software Measurement
by Andrzej Kobyliński Beata Czarnacka-Chrobot Jarosław ŚwierczekThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of two joint events: the 25th International Workshop on Software Measurement (IWSM) and the 10th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement (Mensura), referred to as IWSMâe Mensura 2015 and held in Kraków, Poland, in October 2015. Software measurement is a key methodology in estimating, managing, and controlling software development and management projects. The 13 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. They present various theoretical and empirical results related to software measurement and its application in industrial projects.
Software Methodologies: A Quantitative Guide
by Capers JonesThis comprehensive reference uses a formal and standard evaluation technique to show the strengths and weakness of more than 60 software development methodologies such as agile, DevOps, RUP, Waterfall, TSP, XP and many more. Each methodology is applied to an application of 1000 function points using the Java language. Each methodology produces a characteristic set of results for development schedules, productivity, costs, and quality. The intent of the book is to show readers the optimum kinds of methodologies for the projects they are concerned with and to warn them about counter indications and possible harm from unsuitable methodologies.
Software Metrics and Software Metrology
by Alain AbranMost of the software measures currently proposed to the industry bring few real benefits to either software managers or developers. This book looks at the classical metrology concepts from science and engineering, using them as criteria to propose an approach to analyze the design of current software measures and then design new software measures (illustrated with the design of a software measure that has been adopted as an ISO measurement standard). The book includes several case studies analyzing strengths and weaknesses of some of the software measures most often quoted. It is meant for software quality specialists and process improvement analysts and managers.