Software Development and Professional Practice

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction to Software Development

   • John Dooley

   Pages 1-5

3. Process Life Cycle Models

   • John Dooley

   Pages 7-25

4. Project Management Essentials

   • John Dooley

   Pages 27-36

5. Requirements

   • John Dooley

   Pages 37-46

6. Software Architecture

   • John Dooley

   Pages 47-58

7. Design Principles

   • John Dooley

   Pages 59-69

8. Structured Design

   • John Dooley

   Pages 71-86

9. Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

   • John Dooley

   Pages 87-98

10. Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

    • John Dooley

    Pages 99-113

11. Object-Oriented Design Principles

    • John Dooley

    Pages 115-136

12. Design Patterns

    • John Dooley

    Pages 137-157

13. Code Construction

    • John Dooley

    Pages 159-179

14. Debugging

    • John Dooley

    Pages 181-192

15. Unit Testing

    • John Dooley

    Pages 193-208

16. Walkthroughs, Code Reviews, and Inspections

    • John Dooley

    Pages 209-220

17. Wrapping It all Up

    • John Dooley

    Pages 221-225

18. Back Matter

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Software Development and Professional Practice reveals how to design and code great software. What factors do you take into account? What makes a good design? What methods and processes are out there for designing software? Is designing small programs different than designing large ones? How can you tell a good design from a bad one? You'll learn the principles of good software design, and how to turn those principles back into great code.

Software Development and Professional Practice is also about code construction—how to write great programs and make them work. What, you say? You've already written eight gazillion programs! Of course I know how to write code! Well, in this book you'll re-examine what you already do, and you'll investigate ways to improve. Using the Java language, you'll look deeply into coding standards, debugging, unit testing, modularity, and other characteristics of good programs. You'll also talk about reading code. How do you read code? What makes a program readable? Can good, readable code replace documentation? How much documentation do you really need?

This book introduces you to software engineering—the application of engineering principles to the development of software. What are these engineering principles? First, all engineering efforts follow a defined process. So, you'll be spending a bit of time talking about how you run a software development project and the different phases of a project. Secondly, all engineering work has a basis in the application of science and mathematics to real-world problems. And so does software development! You'll therefore take the time to examine how to design and implement programs that solve specific problems.

Finally, this book is also about human-computer interaction and user interface design issues. A poor user interface can ruin any desire to actually use a program; in this book, you'llfigure out why and how to avoid those errors.

Software Development and Professional Practice covers many of the topics described for the ACM Computing Curricula 2001 course C292c Software Development and Professional Practice. It is designed to be both a textbook and a manual for the working professional.

John F. Dooley is professor and chair of the Computer Science Department at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Before returning to teaching in 2001, Dooley spent nearly 20 years in the software industry as a developer, designer, and manager, working for companies such as Bell Telephone Laboratories, McDonnell Douglas, IBM, and Motorola. He has nearly two dozen professional journal publications to his credit, along with numerous presentations. He has been a reviewer for the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium for the last 28 years, and reviews papers for the IEEE Transactions on Education, the ACM Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE) Conference, and other professional conferences. He has also developed short courses in software development as well as three separate software engineering courses at the advanced undergraduate level. While in industry, Dooley wrote user applications, operating system software and embedded applications for several different platforms. He also supervised teams of developers ranging in size from four to 30 members, and led successful efforts to move development organizations to SEI Levels 2 and 3. Writing is an integral part of many of John s classes at Knox. One of Knox's graduation requirements is a writing-intensive course in the major; John has taught this course every year for the last five years. He s also taught in Knox s First Year Preceptorial program, a discussion and writing course that serves as an introduction to the liberal arts for first-year students.

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