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Pressman's Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach is celebrating 20 years of excellence in the software engineering field. This comprehensive 5th edition provides excellent explanations of all the important topics in software engineering and enhances them with diagrams, examples, exercises, and references.In the fifth edition, a new design has been added to make the book more user friendly. Several chapters have been added including chapters on Web Engineering and User Interface Design.

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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. Darrel Ince is professor of computing at the Open University and is a widely published author. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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In this part of Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, you'll learn about the product that is to be engineered and the process that provides a framework for the engineering technology. Read the first page

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4.0 out of 5 stars All about managing software engineering projects., Oct 15 2002

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"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.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Very Dry, lacks major examples, Jan 12 2004

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Jeremy M. Herback (Odenton, MD) - See all my reviews
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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.)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat academic, not groundbreaking, July 28 2003

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"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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3.0 out of 5 stars some good sections, but a lot of filler and fluff
I just finished using this book for a software engineering course. This book does have some good information but it is surrounded by a lot of filler. Read more

Published on May 6 2003 by mcclintock

2.0 out of 5 stars Underwhelming book
I used this text in a software engineering course as an undergraduate. I think the problems with this book are two-fold. Read more

Published on April 20 2003 by David Elder