- Hardcover: 880 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 6 edition (Mar 24 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 007301933X
- ISBN-13: 978-0073019338
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 19 x 3.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #290,104 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For over 20 years, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach has been the best selling guide to software engineering for students and industry professionals alike.
The sixth edition continues to lead the way in software engineering. A new Part 4 on Web Engineering presents a complete engineering approach for the analysis, design, and testing of Web Applications, increasingly important for today's students. Additionally, the UML coverage has been enhanced and signficantly increased in this new edition.
The pedagogy has also been improved in the new edition to include sidebars. They provide information on relevant softare tools, specific work flow for specific kinds of projects, and additional information on various topics. Additionally, Pressman provides a running case study called "Safe Home" throughout the book, which provides the application of software engineering to an industry project.
New additions to the book also include chapters on the Agile Process Models, Requirements Engineering, and Design Engineering. The book has been completely updated and contains hundreds of new references to software tools that address all important topics in the book.
The ancillary material for the book includes an expansion of the case study, which illustrates it with UML diagrams. The On-Line Learning Center includes resources for both instructors and students such as checklists, 700 categorized web references, Powerpoints, a test bank, and a software engineering library-containing over 500 software engineering papers. TAKEAWY HERE IS THE FOLLOWING: 1. AGILE PROCESS METHODS ARE COVERED EARLY IN CH. 4 2. NEW PART ON WEB APPLICATIONS --5 CHAPTERS
About the Author
Roger S. Pressman is an internationally recognised authority on software process improvement and software engineering technologies. He is currently president of R. S. Pressman and Associates Inc., a consultancy specialising in software engineering practices.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
All about managing software engineering projects.,
By "cedric_bouleau" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach (with CD-ROM) (Hardcover)
I am a software project manager and owns a few books on both the managerial and technical aspects of software engineering. This book will not give you a specific process to follow for your software engineering projects and needs. It will not give you technical solutions to common software engineering technical problems either. This book is about the "art" of software engineering and what methods, tools and techniques exist today to achieve success in managing software engineering projects. I believe the people giving bad reviews were actually looking for something either more technical or more specific to a process. The book is clearly written. The format is very effective and the information is presented well (icons for advice, quotes, recommendations...). The layout is very convenient and I think there is a lot of information available. I agree that it is a little too pricey and maybe missing a few areas of software engineering. But the foundation are there.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Very Dry, lacks major examples,
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This review is from: Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach (with CD-ROM) (Hardcover)
The book is extremely dry and is very wordy. There is a lot of information present and the subject is rather dry to begin with, but this book still falls short. It also lacks examples of major documentation (requirements definition, requirements specifcation, etc.)
3.0 out of 5 stars
Somewhat academic, not groundbreaking,
By "proxxy99" (landover hills, md United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach (with CD-ROM) (Hardcover)
Used this book in an undergraduate software engineering course (apparently it's big in the college scene). A number of my mates complained that the chapters were boring and long. I think its a good book, probably a slow reading, but still informative (a lot of stuff could definitely have been done without). It's not the best, and there's bound to be something better out there. For college kids, hopefully it'll grow on you. It talks on a broad range of SE activities - process models, design, analysis and modeling concepts, OOA & OOD, testing, metrics, management issues, systems engineering etc. Towards the end of the book when it talks on cleanroom SE, web engineering, formal methods, it's not very detailed and very obscure at best.You get a broad feel for what SE entails even if you eventually plan to later focus in one area. I think the authors goal is to make the reader understand the principles behind SE.
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