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Essentials of Software Engineering, 5th Edition

Name: Essentials of Software Engineering, 5th Edition
ISBN: 9781284229004

by Frank Tsui, Orlando Karam, Barbara Bernal

January 2022

Beginner

332 pages

11h 57m

English

Jones & Bartlett Learning

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
About the Author
1 Creating a Program
1.1 A Simple Problem
1.1.1 Decisions, Decisions1.1.2 Functional Requirements1.1.3 Nonfunctional Requirements1.1.4 Design Constraints1.1.5 Design Decisions
1.2 Testing
1.3 Estimating Effort

1.4 Implementations
1.4.1 A Few Pointers on Implementation1.4.2 Basic Design1.4.3 Unit Testing with JUnit1.4.4 Implementation of StringSorter1.4.5 User Interfaces
1.5 Summary
1.6 Review Questions
1.7 Exercises
1.8 References and Suggested Readings
2 Building a System
2.1 Characteristics of Building a System
2.1.1 Size and Complexity2.1.2 Technical Considerations of Development and Support2.1.3 Nontechnical Considerations of Development and Support
2.2 Building a Hypothetical System
2.2.1 Requirements of the Payroll System2.2.2 Designing the Payroll System2.2.3 Code and Unit Testing the Payroll System2.2.4 Integration and Functional Testing of the Payroll System2.2.5 Release of the Payroll System2.2.6 Support and Maintenance
2.3 Coordination Efforts
2.3.1 Process2.3.2 Product2.3.3 People
2.4 Summary
2.5 Review Questions
2.6 Exercises
2.7 References and Suggested Readings
3 Engineering of Software
3.1 Examples and Characteristics of Software Failures
3.1.1 Project Failures3.1.2 Software Product Failures3.1.3 Coordination and Other Concerns
3.2 Software Engineering
3.2.1 What Is Software Engineering?3.2.2 Definitions of Software Engineering3.2.3 Relevancy of Software Engineering and Software
3.3 Software Engineering Profession and Ethics
3.3.1 Software Engineering Code of Ethics3.3.2 Professional Behavior
3.4 Principles of Software Engineering
3.4.1 Davis’s Early Principles of Software Engineering3.4.2 Royce’s More Modern Principles3.4.3 Wasserman’s Fundamental Software Engineering Concepts
3.5 Summary
3.6 Review Questions
3.7 Exercises
3.8 References and Suggested Readings
4 Traditional Software Process Models
4.1 Software Processes
4.1.1 Goal of Software Process Models4.1.2 The “Simplest” Process Model
4.2 Traditional Process Models
4.2.1 Waterfall Model4.2.2 Chief Programmer Team Approach4.2.3 Incremental Model4.2.4 Spiral Model
4.3 A More Modern Process
4.3.1 General Foundations of Rational Unified Process Framework4.3.2 The Phases of RUP
4.4 Entry and Exit Criteria
4.4.1 Entry Criteria4.4.2 Exit Criteria
4.5 Process Assessment Models
4.5.1 SEI’s Capability Maturity Model4.5.2 SEI’s Capability Maturity Model Integrated
4.6 Process Definition and Communication
4.7 Summary
4.8 Review Questions
4.9 Exercises
4.10 References and Suggested Readings
5 Agile Software Process Models
5.1 What Are Agile Processes?
5.2 Why Agile Processes?
5.3 Some Process Methodologies
5.3.1 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 Processes
5.4 Choosing a Process
5.4.1 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 Processes
5.5 Summary
5.6 Review Questions
5.7 Exercises
5.8 References and Suggested Readings
6 Requirements Engineering
6.1 Requirements Processing
6.1.1 Preparing for Requirements Processing6.1.2 Requirements Engineering Process
6.2 Requirements Elicitation and Gathering
6.2.1 Eliciting High-Level Requirements6.2.2 Eliciting Detailed Requirements
6.3 Requirements Analysis
6.3.1 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 Traceability
6.4 Requirements Definition, Prototyping, and Reviews
6.5 Requirements Specification and Requirements Agreement
6.6 Summary
6.7 Review Questions
6.8 Exercises
6.9 References and Suggested Readings
7 Design: Architecture and Methodology
7.1 Introduction to Design
7.2 Architectural Design
7.2.1 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—REST
7.3 Detailed Design
7.3.1 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 Concerns
7.4 HTML-Script-SQL Design Example
7.5 Summary
7.6 Review Questions
7.7 Exercises
7.8 References and Suggested Readings
8 Design Characteristics and Metrics
8.1 Characterizing Design
8.2 Some Legacy Characterizations of Design Attributes
8.2.1 Halstead Complexity Metric8.2.2 McCabe’s Cyclomatic Complexity8.2.3 Henry-Kafura Information Flow8.2.4 A Higher-Level Complexity Measure
8.3 “Good” Design Attributes
8.3.1 Cohesion8.3.2 Coupling
8.4 OO Design Metrics
8.4.1 Aspect-Oriented Programming8.4.2 The Law of Demeter
8.5 User-Interface Design
8.5.1 Good UI Characteristics8.5.2 Usability Evaluation and Testing
8.6 Summary
8.7 Review Questions
8.8 Exercises
8.9 References and Suggested Readings
9 Implementation
9.1 Introduction to Implementation
9.2 Characteristics of a Good Implementation
9.2.1 Programming Style and Coding Guidelines9.2.2 Comments
9.3 Implementation Practices
9.3.1 Debugging9.3.2 Assertions and Defensive Programming9.3.3 Performance Optimization9.3.4 Refactoring9.3.5 Code Reuse
9.4 Virtualization and Containers
9.5 Developing for the Cloud
9.5.1 Infrastructure as a Service9.5.2 Platform as a Service9.5.3 Cloud Application Services9.5.4 Cloud Services for Developers9.5.5 Infrastructure as Code and DevOps9.5.6 Advantages and Disadvantages of the Cloud
9.6 Summary
9.7 Review Questions
9.8 Exercises
9.9 References and Suggested Readings
10 Testing and Quality Assurance
10.1 Introduction to Testing and Quality Assurance
10.2 Testing
10.2.1 The Purposes of Testing
10.3 Testing Techniques
10.3.1 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 Development
10.4 When to Stop Testing
10.5 Inspections and Reviews
10.6 Formal Methods
10.7 Static Analysis
10.8 Summary
10.9 Review Questions
10.10 Exercises
10.11 References and Suggested Readings
11 Configuration Management, Integration, and Builds
11.1 Software Configuration Management
11.2 Policy, Process, and Artifacts
11.2.1 Business Policy Impact on Configuration Management11.2.2 Process Influence on Configuration Management
11.3 Configuration Management Framework
11.3.1 Naming Model11.3.2 Storage and Access Model
11.4 Build and Integration and Build
11.5 Tools for Configuration Management
11.6 Managing the Configuration Management Framework
11.7 Summary
11.8 Review Questions
11.9 Exercises
11.10 References and Suggested Readings
12 Software Support and Maintenance
12.1 Customer Support
12.1.1 User Problem Arrival Rate12.1.2 Customer Interface and Call Management12.1.3 Technical Problem/Fix12.1.4 Fix Delivery and Fix Installs
12.2 Product Maintenance Updates and Release Cycles
12.3 Change Control
12.4 Summary
12.5 Review Questions
12.6 Exercises
12.7 References and Suggested Readings
13 Software Project Management
13.1 Project Management
13.1.1 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 Management
13.2 Some Project Management Techniques
13.2.1 Project Effort Estimation13.2.2 Work Breakdown Structure13.2.3 Project Status Tracking with Earned Value13.2.4 Measuring Project Properties and Goal-Question-Metric (GQM)
13.3 Summary
13.4 Review Questions
13.5 Exercises
13.6 References and Suggested Readings
14 Epilogue and Some Contemporary Issues
14.1 Security and Software Engineering
14.2 Reverse Engineering and Software Obfuscation
14.3 Software Validation and Verification Methodologies and Tools
14.4 References and Suggested Readings
APPENDIX A Essential Software Development Plan (SDP)
APPENDIX B Essential Software Requirements Specifications (SRS)
APPENDIX C Essential Software Design
APPENDIX D Essential Test Plan
Glossary
Index

Content preview from Essentials of Software Engineering, 5th Edition

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, sort them in alphabetical order, and write them to another file.” This is probably one of the simplest problems you will be involved with. You have probably done similar assignments for some of your introduction to programming classes.

1.1.1 Decisions, Decisions

A problem statement such as the one mentioned in the preceding simple problem does not completely specify the problem. You need to clarify ...

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