Essentials of Software Engineering, 3rd Edition

OBJECTIVES

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CHAPTER

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Writing a Program

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Analyze some of the issues involved in producing a simple program:

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Requirements

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Design constraints

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Testing

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Effort estimation

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Implementation details

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Understand the sequence of activities involved in writing even a simple

program.

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Preview many additional software engineering topics found in the later

chapters.

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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