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Essentials of Software Engineering, 4th Edition

Name: Essentials of Software Engineering, 4th Edition
ISBN: 9781284106077

by Frank Tsui, Orlando Karam, Barbara Bernal

December 2016

Beginner

334 pages

11h 5m

English

Jones & Bartlett Learning

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Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Creating a Program
1.1 A Simple Problem1.1.1 Decisions, Decisions1.1.2 Functional Requirements1.1.3 Nonfunctional Requirements1.1.4 Design Constraints1.1.5 Design Decisions1.2 Testing1.3 Estimating Effort1.4 Implementations1.4.1 A Few Pointers on Implementation1.4.2 Basic Design1.4.3 Unit Testing with JUnit1.4.4 Implementation of StringSorter1.4.5 User Interfaces1.5 Summary1.6 Review Questions1.7 Exercises1.8 References and Suggested Readings
Chapter 2 Building a System
2.1 Characteristics of Building a System2.1.1 Size and Complexity2.1.2 Technical Considerations of Development and Support2.1.3 Nontechnical Considerations of Development and Support2.2 Building a Hypothetical System2.2.1 Requirements of the Payroll System2.2.2 Designing the Payroll System2.2.3 Code and Unit Testing the Payroll System2.2.4 Integration and Functionally Testing the Payroll System2.2.5 Release of the Payroll System2.2.6 Support and Maintenance2.3 Coordination Efforts2.3.1 Process2.3.2 Product2.3.3 People2.4 Summary2.5 Review Questions2.6 Exercises2.7 References and Suggested Readings
Chapter 3 Engineering of Software
3.1 Examples and Characteristics of Software Failures3.1.1 Project Failures3.1.2 Software Product Failures3.1.3 Coordination and Other Concerns3.2 Software Engineering3.2.1 What Is Software Engineering?3.2.2 Definitions of Software Engineering3.2.3 Relevancy of Software Engineering and Software3.3 Software Engineering Profession and Ethics3.3.1 Software Engineering Code of Ethics3.3.2 Professional Behavior3.4 Principles of Software Engineering3.4.1 Davis’s Early Principles of Software Engineering3.4.2 Royce’s More Modern Principles3.4.3 Wasserman’s Fundamental Software Engineering Concepts3.5 Summary3.6 Review Questions3.7 Exercises3.8 References and Suggested Readings
Chapter 4 Software Process Models
4.1 Software Processes4.1.1 Goal of Software Process Models4.1.2 The “Simplest” Process Model4.2 Traditional Process Models4.2.1 Waterfall Model4.2.2 Chief Programmer Team Approach4.2.3 Incremental Model4.2.4 Spiral Model4.3 A More Modern Process4.3.1 General Foundations of Rational Unified Process Framework4.3.2 The Phases of RUP4.4 Entry and Exit Criteria4.4.1 Entry Criteria4.4.2 Exit Criteria4.5 Process Assessment Models4.5.1 SEI’s Capability Maturity Model4.5.2 SEI’s Capability Maturity Model Integrated4.6 Process Definition and Communication4.7 Summary4.8 Review Questions4.9 Exercises4.10 References and Suggested Readings
Chapter 5 New and Emerging Process Methodologies
5.1 What Are Agile Processes?5.2 Why Agile Processes?5.3 Some Process Methodologies5.3.1 Extreme Programming (XP)5.3.2 The Crystal Family of Methodologies5.3.3 The Unified Process as Agile5.3.4 Scrum5.3.5 Kanban Method: A New Addition to Agile5.3.6 Open Source Software Development5.3.7 Summary of Processes5.4 Choosing a Process5.4.1 Projects and Environments Better Suited for Each Kind of Process5.4.2 Main Risks and Disadvantages of Agile Processes5.4.3 Main Advantages of Agile Processes5.5 Summary5.6 Review Questions5.7 Exercises5.8 References and Suggested Readings

Chapter 6 Requirements Engineering
6.1 Requirements Processing6.1.1 Preparing for Requirements Processing6.1.2 Requirements Engineering Process6.2 Requirements Elicitation and Gathering6.2.1 Eliciting High-Level Requirements6.2.2 Eliciting Detailed Requirements6.3 Requirements Analysis6.3.1 Requirements Analysis and Clustering by Business Flow6.3.2 Requirements Analysis and Clustering with Object-Oriented Use Cases6.3.3 Requirements Analysis and Clustering by Viewpoint-Oriented Requirements Definition6.3.4 Requirements Analysis and Prioritization6.3.5 Requirements Traceability6.4 Requirements Definition, Prototyping, and Reviews6.5 Requirements Specification and Requirements Agreement6.6 Summary6.7 Review Questions6.8 Exercises6.9 References and Suggested Readings
Chapter 7 Design: Architecture and Methodology
7.1 Introduction to Design7.2 Architectural Design7.2.1 What Is Software Architecture?7.2.2 Views and Viewpoints7.2.3 Meta-Architectural Knowledge: Styles, Patterns, Tactics, and Reference Architectures7.2.4 A Network-based Web Reference Architecture—REST7.3 Detailed Design7.3.1 Functional Decomposition7.3.2 Relational Database Design7.3.3 Designing for Big Data7.3.4 Object-Oriented Design and UML7.3.5 User-Interface Design7.3.6 Some Further Design Concerns7.4 HTML-Script-SQL Design Example7.5 Summary7.6 Review Questions7.7 Exercises7.8 References and Suggested Readings
Chapter 8 Design Characteristics and Metrics
8.1 Characterizing Design8.2 Some Legacy Characterizations of Design Attributes8.2.1 Halstead Complexity Metric8.2.2 McCabe’s Cyclomatic Complexity8.2.3 Henry-Kafura Information Flow8.2.4 A Higher-Level Complexity Measure8.3 “Good” Design Attributes8.3.1 Cohesion8.3.2 Coupling8.4 OO Design Metrics8.4.1 Aspect-Oriented Programming8.4.2 The Law of Demeter8.5 User-Interface Design8.5.1 Good UI Characteristics8.5.2 Usability Evaluation and Testing8.6 Summary8.7 Review Questions8.8 Exercises8.9 References and Suggested Readings
Chapter 9 Implementation
9.1 Introduction to Implementation9.2 Characteristics of a Good Implementation9.2.1 Programming Style and Coding Guidelines9.2.2 Comments9.3 Implementation Practices9.3.1 Debugging9.3.2 Assertions and Defensive Programming9.3.3 Performance Optimization9.3.4 Refactoring9.3.5 Code Reuse9.4 Developing for the Cloud9.4.1 Infrastructure as a Service9.4.2 Platform as a Service9.4.3 Cloud Application Services9.4.4 Cloud Services for Developers9.4.5 Advantages and Disadvantages of the Cloud9.5 Summary9.6 Review Questions9.7 Exercises9.8 References and Suggested Readings
Chapter 10 Testing and Quality Assurance
10.1 Introduction to Testing and Quality Assurance10.2 Testing10.2.1 The Purposes of Testing10.3 Testing Techniques10.3.1 Equivalence-Class Partitioning10.3.2 Boundary Value Analysis10.3.3 Path Analysis10.3.4 Combinations of Conditions10.3.5 Automated Unit Testing and Test-Driven Development10.3.6 An Example of Test-Driven Development10.4 When to Stop Testing10.5 Inspections and Reviews10.6 Formal Methods10.7 Static Analysis10.8 Summary10.9 Review Questions10.10 Exercises10.11 References and Suggested Readings
Chapter 11 Configuration Management, Integration, and Builds
11.1 Software Configuration Management11.2 Policy, Process, and Artifacts11.2.1 Business Policy Impact on Configuration Management11.2.2 Process Influence on Configuration Management11.3 Configuration Management Framework11.3.1 Naming Model11.3.2 Storage and Access Model11.4 Build and Integration and Build11.5 Tools for Configuration Management11.6 Managing the Configuration Management Framework11.7 Summary11.8 Review Questions11.9 Exercises11.10 References and Suggested Readings
Chapter 12 Software Support and Maintenance
12.1 Customer Support12.1.1 User Problem Arrival Rate12.1.2 Customer Interface and Call Management12.1.3 Technical Problem/Fix12.1.4 Fix Delivery and Fix Installs12.2 Product Maintenance Updates and Release Cycles12.3 Change Control12.4 Summary12.5 Review Questions12.6 Exercises12.7 References and Suggested Readings
Chapter 13 Software Project Management
13.1 Project Management13.1.1 The Need for Project Management13.1.2 The Project Management Process13.1.3 The Planning Phase of Project Management13.1.4 The Organizing Phase of Project Management13.1.5 The Monitoring Phase of Project Management13.1.6 The Adjusting Phase of Project Management13.2 Some Project Management Techniques13.2.1 Project Effort Estimation13.2.2 Work Breakdown Structure13.2.3 Project Status Tracking with Earned Value13.2.4 Measuring Project Properties and GQM13.3 Summary13.4 Review Questions13.5 Exercises13.6 References and Suggested Readings
Chapter 14 Epilogue and Some Contemporary Issues
14.1 Security and Software Engineering14.2 Reverse Engineering and Software Obfuscation14.3 Software Validation and Verification Methodologies and Tools14.4 References and Suggested Readings
Appendix A Essential Software Development Plan (SDP)
Appendix B Essential Software Requirements Specifications (SRS)
Example 1: Essential SRS—DescriptiveExample 2: Essential SRS—Object OrientedExample 3: Essential SRS—IEEE StandardExample 4: Essential SRS—Narrative Approach
Appendix C Essential Software Design
Example 1: Essential Software Design—UMLExample 2: Essential Software Design—Structural
Appendix D Essential Test Plan
Glossary
Index

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CHAPTER 1: Creating a Program

1.1 A Simple Problem

In this chapter we will analyze the tasks involved in writing a relatively simple program. This will serve as a contrast to what is involved in developing a large system, which is described in Chapter 2.

Assume that you have been given the following simple problem: “Given a collection of lines of text (strings) stored in a file, ...

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Essentials of Software Engineering, 4th Edition

by Frank Tsui, Orlando Karam, Barbara Bernal

CHAPTER 1: Creating a Program

1.1 A Simple Problem

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