- Hardcover: 816 pages
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (Jan 10 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0201546108
- ISBN-13: 978-0201546101
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.7 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #115,944 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
This new work from Watts Humphrey lays the foundation for a disciplined approach to software engineering. In his previous book, Humphrey developed methods for managing an organization's software process. These methods, now commonly practiced in industry, provide to programmers and managers specific steps they can take to evaluate and to improve their software development and software maintenance capabilities. In Humphrey's new book, he scales those methods down to a more personal level, helping software engineers working on relatively small-scale programs to develop the skills and the habits they will need later in their professional life to plan, track, and analyze large and complex software projects more carefully and more successfully.
Clear examples and samples drawn from industry enhance the practical focus of the book. Exercises in the form of projects give readers the opportunity to practice process management as they learn it, a comprehensive instructor's set includes notes on teaching the course, overhead masters, modifiable assignment kits in Word, and a statistical support package in the form of Excel spreadsheets for the analysis of individual and class data.
Clear examples and samples drawn from industry enhance the practical focus of the book. Exercises in the form of projects give readers the opportunity to practice process management as they learn it, a comprehensive instructor's set includes notes on teaching the course, overhead masters, modifiable assignment kits in Word, and a statistical support package in the form of Excel spreadsheets for the analysis of individual and class data.
Features
Presents concepts and methods for a disciplined software engineering process
Scales down industrial practices for planning, tracking, analysis, and defect management to for the needs of small-scale program development
Shows how small project disciplines provide a solid base for larger projects
Supplements
A support diskette , available in either PC (#83485) or Mac (#83998) formats, is available. Send e-mail to aw.cse@aw.com , or call (617) 944-3700, x2575 for details. You can also download the forms used in the book from the AW ftp site for this book .
Both an Instructor's Guide and Instructor's Diskette are available to Instructors only, via your local Addison Wesley Longman office, free of charge.
From the Back Cover
This new work from Watts Humphrey lays the foundation for a disciplined approach to software engineering. In his previous book, Humphrey developed methods for managing an organization's software process. These methods, now commonly practiced in industry, provide to programmers and managers specific steps they can take to evaluate and to improve their software development and software maintenance capabilities. In Humphrey's new book, he scales those methods down to a more personal level, helping software engineers working on relatively small-scale programs to develop the skills and the habits they will need later in their professional life to plan, track, and analyze large and complex software projects more carefully and more successfully.
Clear examples and samples drawn from industry enhance the practical focus of the book. Exercises in the form of projects give readers the opportunity to practice process management as they learn it, a comprehensive instructor's set includes notes on teaching the course, overhead masters, modifiable assignment kits in Word, and a statistical support package in the form of Excel spreadsheets for the analysis of individual and class data.
Features- Presents concepts and methods for a disciplined software engineering process
- Scales down industrial practices for planning, tracking, analysis, and defect management to for the needs of small-scale program development
- Shows how small project disciplines provide a solid base for larger projects
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Not for the developer that thinks he/she is good.,
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This review is from: A Discipline for Software Engineering (Hardcover)
I have read the book and implemented the processes both in and out of a school envirnoment. I have seen measurable positive results in my skills. I recently learned that an instructor I had over 7 years ago still refers to me as the best programmer he has ever met, and I owe this entirely to this book.If you think you are already good, then chances are are that the book won't change you. If you want to find out how good you are, or more importantly become the best you can be you will most likely be enthralled by it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Textbook for Software Engineering,
By A Customer
This review is from: A Discipline for Software Engineering (Hardcover)
This is an excellent textbook for software developers with sufficient experience and discipline to produce professional software. It is not a philosophical treatise or a book on skills. It is not to be read casually before bedtime. In order to get something out of it, you must carry out the assignments.The PSP training is an iterative process, slowly enhancing your process. The PSP is all about gathering data, devising improvements, and seeing the improvements through. The assignments in the book are challenging enough to require some design and have enough lines of code that you can gather data. Over the course of the book, you'll make up to six enhancements to your proces, to the point that you have the experience to develop your own processes. If you carry out the book assignments, you'll also have some basic tools for measuring your software (lines of code counters) and process (statistical software). In order to be effective with the PSP (or software in general), you need to follow good software design practices. The PSP enables you to capture the data that show this. Good design, though, is outside the scope of this book. This book was the textbook for a PSP course for engineers I just completed. The course was a lot of work. In order to get something out of it, I had to be disciplined. In order to get something out of the book, you'll need to be very disciplined because you won't have the structure of a class to ensure you carry out your assignments. The PSP does not work without discipline to capture good time and defect data and to follow the process improvements. If you have successfully learned the PSP process, be it in a formal classrom setting or through this book, you will be able to give estimates of size and time that are +/- 10% with a confidence of 70%. Of course large projects require larger processes than the Personal Software Process--those are outside the scope of this book. For an industry that is plagued by over-estimates, this is an excellent first step for engineering at the individual level.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Boooooring,
By A Customer
This review is from: A Discipline for Software Engineering (Hardcover)
When I flipped thru it at the book store it looked interesting. When I started to read it at home my eyes glazed over. The subject is very interesting, too bad the book is so boring.
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