The authors focus in this book is to deliver software engineering knowledge and skills that readers can put into immediate practical use. The book provides the essential topic coverage required by students of software engineering, from the nuts and bolts of objects to software architecture, from writing code to testing, from software development processes to project management. Working through nine contemporary themes in Software Engineering, students are given an awareness of key issues from understanding the customer and user, evaluating alternative requirements and design, to developing quantitative and logical thinking and effective communication. The book is designed to be used primarily in second-year software engineering courses, but is also widely use in its first edition as an introductory software engineering text at all levels. It will also be valuable to programming practitioners who want to develop a better understanding of modern software engineering.
Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgements 1 Software and software engineering 2 Review of object orientation 3 Basing software development on reusable technology 4 Developing Requirements 5 Modeling with classes 6 Using design patterns 7 Focusing on users and their tasks 8 Modeling interactions and behaviors 9 Architecting and designing software 10 Testing and inspecting to ensure high quality 11 Managing the software process 12 Review APPENDIX A Summary of the ULM notation used in this book APPENDIX B Summary of the documentation types recommended in this book APPENDIX C System descriptions Glossary Index