Software Engineering

by Merlin Dorfman

Book Overview

This first edition of the popular tutorial, Software Engineering, describes the current state of the practice of software engineering. This book begins with an overview of current issues and in particular the engineering of large complex systems. Its collection of landmark papers goes on to describe the problems that occur in developing software, and presents the concepts for system engineering of software intensive systems and of engineering software...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0818676094
• ISBN13: 9780818676093
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society PR
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.1" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

The Fundamentals

Well, this work is truly expansive. It covers an analysis of what software engineering is, straight from the horses mouth: Prof. Bauer provides a paper here. Bauer coined the term in the first place, the fact that he contributes here is an indication of how excellent all 45 papers are.Tom DeMarco and Frederick Brooks' contributions to the Software Project Management topic are essential reading for every project manager. Other notable contributors are Pressman, Boehm and Parnas. This collection guides the professional through development models, requirements specification, coding, testing, maintenance and development technologies, to name a few.If you have a professional interest in improving the development of software, and avoiding over budget, late and deficient systems, you should start here, and not continue until you've finished reading the book. If you only buy one book on software engineering, make it this one. Warning: this collection is not for beginning students or people with a passing interest, it is written at the graduate student / scientific level.

Excellent collection!

I ordered this collection after discovering Thayer's "Software Engineering Project Management" collection. I was not disappointed. This is a "must have" for anybody teaching classes in Software Engineering.

Accumulated classic works of the authorities in the field

This book accululates the classic works of the accepted authorities in the field of Software Engineering. As a senior consultant for government and industry for software productivity improvement, I continuously refer to and recommend this book to my clients and co-workers. This book should be required reading for every computer science, MIS professional. Thank you for the effort it took to bring this all together.