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61. Encyclopedia of Software Engineering | |
Hardcover: 1522
Pages
(2010-12-14)
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Editorial Review Product Description Software engineering requires specialized knowledge of a broad spectrum of topics, including the construction of software; the platforms, applications and environments in which the software operates; as well as an understanding of the people who build and use the software. Offering an authoritative and up-to-date perspective, the two volumes of the Encyclopedia of Software Engineering cover the entire multidisciplinary scope of this important field. More than 200 expert contributors and reviewers from industry and academia across 21 countries provide easy-to-read entries that cover software requirements, design, construction, testing, maintenance, configuration management, quality control, and software engineering management tools and methods. Editor Phillip A. Laplante uses the most universally recognized definition of the areas of relevance to software engineering, the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK®), as a template for organizing the material. Also available in an electronic format, this encyclopedia supplies software engineering students, IT professionals, researchers, managers, and scholars with unrivaled coverage of the topics that encompass this ever-changing field. ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE This Taylor & Francis encyclopedia is also available through online subscription, offering a variety of extra benefits for both researchers, students, and librarians, including: For more information, visit www.informaworld/refworks.com. Or contact us to inquire about subscription options and print/online combination packages. US: (Tel) 1.888.318.2367 / (E-mail) e-reference@taylorandfrancis.com International: (Tel) +44 (0) 20 7017 6062 / (E-mail) online.sales@tandf.co.uk |
62. Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives by Nick Rozanski, Eóin Woods | |
Hardcover: 576
Pages
(2005-04-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description Software Systems Architecture is a practitioner-oriented guide to designing and implementing effective architectures for information systems. It is both a readily accessible introduction to software architecture and an invaluable handbook of well-established best practices. It shows why the role of the architect is central to any successful information-systems development project, and, by presenting a set of architectural viewpoints and perspectives, provides specific direction for improving your own and your organization's approach to software systems architecture. With this book you will learn how to The architectural viewpoints and perspectives presented in the book also provide a valuable long-term reference source for new and experienced architects alike. Whether you are an aspiring or practicing software architect, you will find yourself referring repeatedly to the practical advice in this book throughout the lifecycle of your projects. A supporting Web site containing further information can be found at www.viewpoints-and-perspectives.info Customer Reviews (21)
THE book on software architecture
Pragmatic Software Architecture
Review
The Missing Manual for Software Architecture
excellent book |
63. Software Design: From Programming to Architecture by Eric J. Braude | |
Paperback: 576
Pages
(2003-03-05)
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Very good book
The engineering context of individual practice It has three main centers of attention: design patterns, component software, and software engineering (SWEng). This last is Prof. Braude's specialty. He addresses industrial SWEng directly in another book, in far more detail than this book attempts. This is not "SWEng-lite" though. It presents SWEng as the context in which software is designed - the environment in which design patterns are applied. Other design pattern books seem to address design as an isolated event, with no context and no further concerns than design. That, in my opinion, is how other books fail. Design is just a fraction, typically 10% down to 1% of a program's lifetime cost. SWEng addresses the whole of a software project's life. This book exists to place design, in terms of design patterns, in its proper place in a software system's time line. In part, it's a commentary on the "Design Patterns" book by Gamma et al. In part, it's a summary of SWEng process. Other books do each job better. This book unifies the two fields, though, and may be unique in taking on that unification as its main goal. For the general reader, this book's discussion of component software may seem shallow and tangential. Perhaps it works well in Prof. Braude's classroom, but I think it adds one concept too many to an otherwise good book. The component and .NET sections may have value in his classroom, but I think they add little to an otherwise interesting approach to two important topics. I think this book has a place in a complete software engineering library. Maybe not the highest place, or second highest. Still, it will give the knowledgeable reader a uncommon view of individual design as part of the professional software practice. ... Read more |
64. Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules by Steve McConnell | |
Paperback: 680
Pages
(1996-07-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description The nine page section entitled "Classic Mistakes Enumerated" is aloneworth the price of admission and should be required reading for alldevelopers, leads, and managers. Here are some types of the 36 classicmistakes that McConnell describes in detail: I suspect that if you've ever been involved in software development,you winced after reading each of these nine points. And you will learna great deal from the remaining 640 pages about concrete solutions. My only substantive gripe: cheesy Powerpoint graphics. Nonetheless,this book is Very Highly Recommended. Customer Reviews (114)
The 98th 5 star review
The most complete and difinitive tome on software development.
If you can avoid classic mistakes and apply development fundamentals, this is THE book to take you to the next level.
A must read for Software development
Applies today as much as it ever did... |
65. C: A Software Engineering Approach by Peter A. Darnell, Philip E. Margolis | |
Paperback: 497
Pages
(1996-05-29)
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Good at C language, average on Software Engineering
There are better...
Great for learning or reference
Its sad that this book is not world famous
Best single reference for using C - period. |
66. Software Engineering for Real-Time Systems by Jim Cooling | |
Paperback: 787
Pages
(2002-11-11)
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Software Engineering Foundations for Memory Dump Analysis
A must have for embedded software with EE background
One of a Kind, Superb Book And one fine day I happen to see this book in a Borders bookstore. The only book you will find about software engineering/design for real-time systems that covers as many topics and with the depth (in some areas) that I haven't found anywhere else. It covers methods/design based on Structured, data flow and Object Oriented. Every software engineer/computer engineer working on embedded systems must atleast have a look at this book. I haveread and looked at a lot of other books but I keep on coming back to this book for one thing or another that I find only in this book. Here are MAJOR areas in which this book shines: Again, a must to look at atleast once in your embedded career. If you are a beginner, I think you would want to buy it. ... Read more |
67. Software Engineering Processes: With the UPEDU by Pierre N. Robillard, Philippe Kruchten, Patrick d'Astous | |
Paperback: 368
Pages
(2002-08-31)
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68. Artificial Intelligence and Software EngineeringUnderstanding the Promise of the Future by Derek Partridge | |
Hardcover: 368
Pages
(1998-11-23)
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Editorial Review Product Description The computer is a surprisingly seductive device. It tempts us with the promise of its great power, but also entices the unwary to overstep the bounds of manageable complexity. Managers, business owners, computer literate individuals, and software developers alike are all seeking an understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) and wondering how it might be used. In this easy-to-read discussion, Derek Partridge helps us understand what AI can and can not do. The topics discussed include: ** strengths and weaknesses of software development and engineering ** the promises and problems of machine learning ** expert systems and success stories ** practical software through artificial intelligence--This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title Customer Reviews (1)
The future isn't what it used to be... It is an interesting trip down memory lane, and has some interesting things to say about AI and SE and may be worth reading on that front. However, if you want an overview of AI, you will need to look elsewhere. ... Read more |
69. A Discipline for Software Engineering by Watts S. Humphrey | |
Hardcover: 816
Pages
(1995-01-10)
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Valuable method, that works
Of doubtful practical value
Not for the developer that thinks he/she is good. If you think you are already good, then chances are are that the book won't change you. If you want to find out how good you are, or more importantly become the best you can be you will most likely be enthralled by it.
A Textbook for Software Engineering The PSP training is an iterative process, slowly enhancing your process.The PSP is all about gathering data, devising improvements, and seeing the improvements through.The assignments in the book are challenging enough to require some design and have enough lines of code that you can gather data. Over the course of the book, you'll make up to six enhancements to your proces, to the point that you have the experience to develop your own processes.If you carry out the book assignments, you'll also have some basic tools for measuring your software (lines of code counters) and process (statistical software). In order to be effective with the PSP (or software in general), you need to follow good software design practices.The PSP enables you to capture the data that show this.Good design, though, is outside the scope of this book. This book was the textbook for a PSP course for engineers I just completed.The course was a lot of work.In order to get something out of it, I had to be disciplined.In order to get something out of the book, you'll need to be very disciplined because you won't have the structure of a class to ensure you carry out your assignments.The PSP does not work without discipline to capture good time and defect data and to follow the process improvements. If you have successfully learned the PSP process, be it in a formal classrom setting or through this book, you will be able to give estimates of size and time that are +/- 10% with a confidence of 70%.Of course large projects require larger processes than the Personal Software Process--those are outside the scope of this book.For an industry that is plagued by over-estimates, this is an excellent first step for engineering at the individual level.
Boooooring |
70. Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach (McGraw-Hill International Editions: Computer Science Series) by Pressman | |
Paperback: 871
Pages
(2000-12-01)
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Confusing Book-Enless lists
It has covered every aspectin software engineering |
71. Software Product-Family Engineering | |
Paperback: 417
Pages
(2002-06-10)
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72. Software Engineering With B (International Computer Science Series) by J. B. Wordsworth | |
Paperback: 331
Pages
(1996-08)
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A quick glance at formal methods... The limititations of B are quite obvious, it cannot be used to represent e.g. concurrent processes, but it might be helpful to you anyway, as surprisingly many tasks can be modelled as simple state-machines, and with good tool-support, it might even be an advantage to do so. The book is short, and to the point. It will not work as a textbook for formal methods, being far too short, and not covering enough material (but it can be used as a starter text). It contains just enough to get you started using the B tool. The book is written in simple language, and can be understood by any reasonably intelligent programmer or software engineer. In particular, it does not require training in formal logic. For people new to formal methods, this is the ideal starter text, but those that already know some would want to look elsewhere. ... Read more |
73. Software Product Lines: Research Issues in Engineering and Management | |
Paperback: 635
Pages
(2010-11-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book covers research into the most important practices in product line organization. Contributors offer experience-based knowledge on the domain and application engineering, the modeling and management of variability, and the design and use of tools to support the management of product line-related knowledge. |
74. Advances in Software Engineering: Comprehension, Evaluation and Evolution | |
Paperback: 467
Pages
(2010-11-02)
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75. Managing Software Requirements: A Unified Approach (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series) by Dean Leffingwell, Don Widrig | |
Hardcover: 528
Pages
(1999-10-28)
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Editorial Review Product Description "Many projects fail for the simple reason that the developers fail to build the right thing: They either deliver a system that does not meet the expectations of its intended users, or they deliver a system that focuses on secondary functions at the expense of its primary use. Drawing on their extensive experience, Dean and Don demonstrate how to employ an industrial-strength requirements process, one that helps ensure you will build the right thing. Developers of any kind of application should read this book." --Grady Booch Despite the wealth of development knowledge, experience, and tools generally available today, a substantial percentage of software projects continue to fail, often because requirements are not correctly determined and defined at the outset, or are not managed correctly as the project unfolds. Clients do not always know or express their needs precisely, and too often designers and developers do not ask the right questions at the right times. As a result, projects often spin out of control as "feature bloat" and shifting priorities cause budgets and schedules to exceed expectations. Managing Software Requirements focuses on this critical cause of failure and offers a practical, proven approach to building systems that meet customers' needs--on time and within budget. The authors are skilled practitioners who have spent their careers in the trenches building high-quality applications, including safety-critical, real-time systems. Using an informal, approachable style, their own war stories, and a comprehensive case study they show how designers and developers can effectively identify requirements by employing the power of use cases and more traditional forms of requirements expression. The book illustrates proven techniques for determining, implementing, verifying, and validating requirements. It describes six vital Team Skills for managing requirements throughout the lifecycle of a project: Analyzing the Problem, Understanding User Needs, Defining the System, Managing Scope, Refining the System Definition, and Building the Right System. Managing Software Requirements specifically addresses the ongoing challenge of managing change and describes a process for assuring that project scope is successfully defined and agreed upon by all stakeholders. Topics covered include: * The five steps in problem analysis * Business modeling and system engineering * Techniques for eliciting requirements from clients, users, developers, and other stakeholders * Applying and refining use cases * Prototyping * Organizing and managing requirements information * Establishing project scope and managing customers * Using both informal and technical methods for specifying requirements * How to measure and improve the quality of your product's requirements * Moving from requirements to implementation * Verifying and validating the system * Managing change The book concludes with a step-by-step guide to incorporating these powerful techniques into future projects. Customer Reviews (18)
Fails to explain the GAP between Biz Objectives & Outcomes
Anyone involved with developing software - read this book There are several references to "Quality Before Design", and this book extends those ideas into a very tangible process of requirements management. The authors were working with these ideas before the Rational system was developed, and the book ties together its approach with the Capability Maturity model and the Rational Unified process at the very end of the book. The book is very clearly written, and organized to build upon earlier concepts and help the reader take the ideas from concept to practice.
A must for anyone in software development
Excellent, informative guide to requirements gathering
Basics Well anyway, as I said this book is anyway a must read, but you have to read more. I found many good ideas and could broaden my understanding by reading "Customer Centered Products" by Ivy F. Hooks and Kristin A. Farry. ... Read more |
76. Software Engineering, The Supporting Processes (Practitioners) (Volume 2) by Richard H. Thayer, Merlin Dorfman | |
Paperback: 456
Pages
(2005-09-02)
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Waste of money |
77. Software Engineering - ESEC '93: 4th European Software Engineering Conference, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, September 13-17, 1993. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) | |
Paperback: 516
Pages
(1993-10-08)
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great item
Great book to have on your desk.
Informative but not Practical Now, the premise of having an entire book on software engineering may be more to blame than the clarity or presentation of the material.But software engineering is a practical field, and a software engineering text that doesn't provide practical information isn't useful.For this reason, I cannot give the book a passing grade.
Shallow and not using American English Further, the author does not use American English, which is fine - when you don't attend an American university.Words such a "modelling" and general sentence structure makes the text distracting and confusing in ways it shouldn't be.If I am going to have trouble reading it, let it be the material and now how the material is presented. If the book isn't forced upon you by a university, you should consider a different software engineering book if you want details. Of course, I won't even go into my professor who is using this book - yikes.
Worth the paper it's printed on but no more I was at the used book store recently and had the good fortune of acquiring Stephen R. Schach's excellent book: "Software Engineering with Java." If you are a college professor looking for a course text, I would highly recommend taking a look at this book. ... Read more |
78. Software Metrics, Second Edition (Software Engineering) by Norman Fenton, James Bieman | |
Hardcover: 650
Pages
(2010-12-15)
list price: US$69.95 -- used & new: US$47.21 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 1439830428 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description The second edition of this comprehensive text provides an up-to-date, coherent, and rigorous framework for controlling, managing, and predicting software development processes. With an emphasis on real-world applications, the authors apply basic ideas in measurement theory to quantify software development resources, processes, and products. They also discuss the limitations of past and current approaches used in empirical research, show how these limitations can be reduced, and provide guidelines for making decisions. In addition to worked examples and exercises, this edition features extensive case studies throughout the chapters. Customer Reviews (3)
Complete, wide in scope and essential Instead of writing a tome about what this book contains, I'll confine my comments to what I especially like about it and why. First, the measurement fundamentals, the goal-based measurement framework, and information about data collection and management alone make this book worth owning. Data collection, for example, can waste resources if you try to collect everything, or worse, don't properly manage or analyze it.Follow the process given in the first part of this book and you'll have a solid basis for a metrics initiative. Second, the scope of software engineering metrics is wide and given fairly detailed treatment. I especially like the fact that object-oriented metrics are addressed, and the multi-dimensional approach to measuring internal and external product attributes.Moreover, the scope of this book extends to productivity and resource management, which is where development projects and lifecycle costs associated with maintenance have gaps.Finally, the section on software reliability metrics was excellent and added yet another dimension to the coverage the authors give. Overall, this book is both rigorous and practical as the title implies.The theory and practical applications of measurement and metrics are carefully balanced, and the breadth of material ensures that coverage is complete and addresses all major aspects of software engineering.
Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach, Revised Considering the price you should get value on all pages. This book could have been one quarter of its size and you would not have lost anything. This is far from a Practical Approach. At some places the authors seems more interested in taking down other researchers ideas than giving an objective view on, "what metrics is, how it can be used, when it is used, what you measure on".
excellent survey and critique |
79. Practical Software Engineering: A Case-Study Approach by Leszek Maciaszek, Bruc Lee Liong | |
Paperback: 864
Pages
(2004-08-09)
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Good format, but no so good content
Gook work on reviewing modern software engineering |
80. Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice by R. N. Taylor, N. Medvidovic, E. M. Dashofy | |
Hardcover: 750
Pages
(2009-01-09)
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Foundations, Theory,Practice is the order of book priorities
Modern intro to Software Architecture
Worth the money to find out more about architecture
Software Architecture text - not worth
A fine introduction to the discipline of software architecture |
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