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Concise Guide to Software Engineering

From Fundamentals to Application Methods

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Gerard O'Regan

    1. SQC Consulting, Cork, Ireland

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  • Describes the fundamental principles of software engineering
  • Provides guidance on how to apply the theory in an industrial environment
  • Offers such pedagogical features as key topics, chapter summaries, review questions, and a glossary
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science (UTICS)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Background

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 1-25

  3. Software Project Management

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    Pages 27-46

  4. Requirements Engineering

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    Pages 47-60

  5. Software Design and Development

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    Pages 61-74

  6. Configuration Management

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    Pages 75-86

  7. Software Inspections

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    Pages 87-104

  8. Software Testing

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    Pages 105-121

  9. Supplier Selection and Management

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    Pages 123-130

  10. Software Quality Assurance

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    Pages 131-138

  11. Software Metrics and Problem-Solving

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    Pages 139-170

  12. Software Reliability and Dependability

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    Pages 171-184

  13. Formal Methods

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    Pages 185-207

  14. Z Formal Specification Language

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 209-224

  15. Unified Modelling Language

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 225-238

  16. Software Process Improvement

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 239-254

  17. Capability Maturity Model Integration

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    Pages 255-277

  18. Software Engineering Tools

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    Pages 279-295

  19. Agile Methodology

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    Pages 297-305

  20. A Miscellany of Innovation

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    Pages 307-315
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About this book

This essential 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.

Reviews

“O’Regan’s Concise Guide to Software Engineering is indeed a succinct introduction to the principles of software engineering. The work contains 20 chapters that cover a range of key topics related to software, such as project management, design and development, testing, quality assurance, metrics and problem solving, process improvement, software engineering tools, and agile methodology. … Pressman’s book can be used at the undergraduate level … . Summing Up: Recommended. With the caveats above. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (C. Tappert, Choice, Vol. 55 (8), April, 2018)

Authors and Affiliations

  • SQC Consulting, Cork, Ireland

    Gerard O'Regan

About the author

Dr. Gerard O'Regan is a CMMI software process improvement consultant with research interests including software quality and software process improvement, mathematical approaches to software quality, and the history of computing. He is the author of such Springer titles as Guide to Discrete Mathematics, Introduction to the History of Computing, Pillars of Computing, Introduction to Software Quality, Giants of Computing, and Mathematics in Computing.

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