Overview
- Based on the material and accessible style of the successful, An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering, this textbook is written specifically for undergraduates
- Offers a solid foundation to this broad-ranging discipline, focusing on the essential elements to execute a software project successfully
- Uses a case study approach taking the reader through the life cycle of applying the concepts to practice
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science (UTICS)
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An introductory course on Software Engineering remains one of the hardest subjects to teach largely because of the wide range of topics the area enc- passes. I have believed for some time that we often tend to teach too many concepts and topics in an introductory course resulting in shallow knowledge and little insight on application of these concepts. And Software Engineering is ?nally about application of concepts to e?ciently engineer good software solutions. Goals I believe that an introductory course on Software Engineering should focus on imparting to students the knowledge and skills that are needed to successfully execute a commercial project of a few person-months e?ort while employing proper practices and techniques. It is worth pointing out that a vast majority of the projects executed in the industry today fall in this scope—executed by a small team over a few months. I also believe that by carefully selecting the concepts and topics, we can, in the course of a semester, achieve this. This is the motivation of this book. The goal of this book is to introduce to the students a limited number of concepts and practices which will achieve the following two objectives: – Teach the student the skills needed to execute a smallish commercial project.
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Book Title: A Concise Introduction to Software Engineering
Authors: Pankaj Jalote
Series Title: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-302-6
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84800-302-6Published: 17 October 2008
Series ISSN: 1863-7310
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 288
Number of Illustrations: 67 b/w illustrations
Topics: Software Engineering, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Coding and Information Theory, Computer Applications