Concise Guide to Software Engineering

This long-awaiting new edition of an essential textbook concisely introduces the fundamental principles of software engineering, also offering 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
• Includes key learning topics, summaries, and review questions in each chapter, together with a useful glossary
• Discusses professional responsibilities of software engineers
• Discusses ethical and privacy challenges in software engineering, software design and development, and project management and outsourcing
• Explains formal methods, a set of mathematical techniques to specify and derive a program from its specification
• Describes innovations in the field of software as distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, software as a service, cloud computing, and embedded systems
• Investigates legal aspects of software engineering including patent and copyright law, as well as legal aspects of outsourcing
• Examines the field of cybersecurity and cybercrime

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.