Software Engineering

For courses in computer science and software engineering

The Fundamental Practice of Software Engineering

Software Engineering introduces readers to the overwhelmingly important subject of software programming and development. In the past few years, computer systems have come to dominate not just our technological growth, but the foundations of our world’s major industries. This text seeks to lay out the fundamental concepts of this huge and continually growing subject area in a clear and comprehensive manner.

The Tenth Edition contains new information that highlights various technological updates of recent years, providing readers with highly relevant and current information. Sommerville’s experience in system dependability and systems engineering guides the text through a traditional plan-based approach that incorporates some novel agile methods. The text strives to teach the innovators of tomorrow how to create software that will make our world a better, safer, and more advanced place to live.

Key Topics: Software processes; Agile software development; Requirements engineering; System modeling; Architectural design; Design and Implementation; Software testing; Software Evolution; Dependable Systems; Reliability engineering; Safety Engineering; Security Engineering; Software Reuse; Component-based Software Engineering; Distributed Software Engineering; Service-oriented Software Engineering; Systems engineering; Systems of systems; Real-time software engineering; Project management; Project planning; Quality management; Configuration management

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This book is suitable for anyone studying software engineering.