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Concise Guide to Software Engineering

From Fundamentals to Application Methods

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Authors:
  1. Gerard O'Regan

    1. University of Central Asia, Naryn, Kyrgyzstan

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  • Describes the fundamental principles of software engineering
  • Offers key topics, chapter summaries, review questions, and a glossary
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Fundamentals of Software Engineering

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 1-26

  3. Professional Responsibility of Software Engineers

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 27-39

  4. Ethical Software Engineering

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 41-55

  5. Software Project Management

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 57-83

  6. Requirements Engineering

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 85-99

  7. Software Design and Development

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 101-115

  8. Software Inspections

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 117-135

  9. Software Testing

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 137-153

  10. Ethics and Privacy

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 155-180

  11. Software Metrics and Problem Solving

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 181-212

  12. Supplier Selection and Management

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 213-225

  13. Configuration Management

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 227-238

  14. Software Quality Assurance

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 239-246

  15. Agile Methodology

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 247-255

  16. Software Reliability and Dependability

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 257-270

  17. Formal Methods

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 271-293

  18. Z Specification Language

    • Gerard O’Regan
    Pages 295-311

  19. Unified Modelling Language

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    Pages 313-326

  20. Software Process Improvement

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    Pages 327-342
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Central Asia, Naryn, Kyrgyzstan

    Gerard O'Regan

About the author

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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