Concise Guide to Software Engineering: From Fundamentals to Application Methods (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)

O'Regan, Gerard

ISBN 10: 3031078152 / ISBN 13: 9783031078156

Editore: Springer, 2022

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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.

Informazioni sull?autore: Dr. Gerard O’Regan is an Assistant Professor in Mathematics at the University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan. He is the author of several books in the Mathematics and Computing fields, including A Brief History of Computing, with Springer.

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Titolo: Concise Guide to Software Engineering: From ...
Casa editrice: Springer
Data di pubblicazione: 2022
Legatura: Brossura
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Edizione: seconda edizione