Chapter 1: Introduction
- 1.1 The Need for Software Engineering
- 1.2 Are Software Teams Really Necessary?
- 1.3 Goals of Software Engineering
- 1.4 Typical Software Engineering Tasks
- 1.5 Software Life Cycles
- 1.5.1 Classical Waterfall Model
- 1.5.2 Rapid Prototyping Model
- 1.5.3 Spiral Model
- 1.5.4 Market-Driven Model of Software Development
- 1.5.5 Open Source Model of Software Development
- 1.5.6 Agile Programming Model of Software Development
- 1.5.7 Common Features of All Models of Software Development
- 1.5.8 Software Evolution and the Decision to Buy vs. Build vs. Reuse vs. Reengineer
- 1.6 Different Views of Software Engineering Activities
- 1.7 Software Engineering as an Engineering Discipline
- 1.8 Some Techniques of Software Engineering
- 1.8.1 Reuse
- 1.8.2 Metrics
- 1.8.3 Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE)
- 1.8.4 Cost Estimation
- 1.8.5 Reviews and Inspections
- 1.9 Standards Commonly Used for Software Development Processes
- 1.10 Organization of the Book
Chapter 2: Project Management
- 2.1 Subteams Needed in Software Engineering Projects
- 2.2 Nature of Project Teams
- 2.3 Project Management
- 2.4 Software Project Estimation
- 2.5 Project Scheduling
- 2.6 Project Measurement
- 2.7 Project Management Tools
- 2.8 Role of Networks in Project Management
- 2.9 Groupware
- 2.10 Case Study in Project Management for Agile Processes
Chapter 3: Requirements
- 3.1 Some Problems with Requirements Determination
- 3.2 Requirements Elicitation
- 3.3 Requirements Traceability
- 3.4 Software Architectures and Requirements
- 3.4.1 Use of Data Abstraction and Information Hiding in Requirements Engineering
- 3.4.2 Regrouping Requirements in Requirements Engineering
- 3.4.3 Reuse of Requirements in Requirements Engineering
- 3.4.4 Automation of the Requirements Engineering Process
- 3.5 Use Cases in Requirements Engineering
- 3.6 Reengineering System Requirements
- 3.7 Assessment of Feasibility of System Requirements
- 3.8 Usability Requirements
- 3.9 Specifying Requirements Using State Diagrams and Decision Tables
- 3.10 Specifying Requirements Using Petri Nets
- 3.11 Ethical Issues
- 3.12 Some Metrics for Requirements
- 3.13 The Requirements Review
- 3.14 A Management Viewpoint
- 3.15 Case Study of a Management Perspective on Requirements in Agile Development
- 3.16 The Major Project: Problem Statement
- 3.17 The Major Project: Requirements Elicitation
- 3.18 The Major Software Project: Requirements Analysis
Chapter 4: Software Design
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Software Design Patterns
- 4.3 Introduction to Software Design Representations
- 4.4 Procedurally Oriented Design Representations
- 4.5 Software Architectures
- 4.6 Software Design Principles for Procedurally Oriented Programs
- 4.7 What is an Object?
- 4.8 Object-Oriented Design Representations
- 4.9 Software Design Principles for Object-Oriented Programs
- 4.10 Class Design Issues
- 4.11 User Interfaces
- 4.12 Software Interfaces
- 4.13 Some Metrics for Design
- 4.14 Design Reviews
- 4.15 A Manager’s Viewpoint of Design
- 4.16 Case Study of Design in Agile Development
- 4.17 Architecture of the Major Software Engineering Project
- 4.18 Preliminary Design of the Major Software Project
- 4.19 Subsystem Design for the Major Software Project
- 4.20 Detailed Design for the Major Software Project
Chapter 5: Coding
- 5.1 Choice of Programming Language
- 5.2 Coding Styles
- 5.3 Coding Standards
- 5.4 Coding, Design, Requirements, and Change
- 5.5 Coupling Can Be Dangerous
- 5.6 Some Coding Metrics
- 5.7 Coding Reviews and Inspections
- 5.8 Configuration Management
- 5.9 A Manager’s Perspective on Coding
- 5.10 Case Study in Coding in Agile Development
- 5.11 Coding of the Major Software Project
Chapter 6: Testing and Integration
- 6.1 Types of Software Testing
- 6.2 Black-Box Module Testing
- 6.3 White-Box Module Testing
- 6.4 Reducing the Number of Test Cases by Effective Test Strategies
- 6.5 Testing Objects for Encapsulation and Completeness
- 6.6 Testing Objects with Inheritance
- 6.7 General Testing Issues for Object-Oriented Software
- 6.8 Test Scripts, Test Harnesses, and Test Plans
- 6.9 Software Integration
- 6.10 Cloud Computing and Software Integration: Software as a Service
- 6.11 Managing Change in the Integration Process
- 6.12 Performance and Stress Testing
- 6.13 Quality Assurance
- 6.14 Software Reliability
- 6.15 A Manager’s Viewpoint on Testing and Integration
- 6.16 Case Study in Testing and Integration in Agile Development
- 6.17 Testing the Major Software Project
- 6.18 Integrating the Major Software Project
Chapter 7: Delivery, Installation, and Documentation
- 7.1 Delivery
- 7.2 Installation
- 7.3 Documentation
- 7.4 Internal Documentation
- 7.5 External Documentation
- 7.6 Design Rationales
- 7.7 Installation, User, Training, and Operations Manuals
- 7.8 Online Documentation
- 7.9 Reading Levels
- 7.10 A Manager’s View of Delivery, Installation, and Documentation
- 7.11 Case Study of Delivery in Agile Development
- 7.12 Delivery, Installation, and Documentation of the Major Software Project
Chapter 8: Maintenance and Software Evolution
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Corrective Software Maintenance
- 8.3 Adaptive Software Maintenance
- 8.4 How to Read Requirements, Designs, and Source Code
- 8.5 A Manager’s Perspective on Software Maintenance
- 8.6 Maintenance Costs, Software Evolution, and the Decision to Buy vs. Build vs. Reuse vs. Reengineer
- 8.7 Maintenance in Agile Development and the Total Life Cycle Costs
- 8.8 Maintenance of the Major Software Project
Chapter 9: Research Issues in Software Engineering
- 9.1 Some Important Research Problems in Software Engineering
- 9.1.1 The Fundamental Question
- 9.1.2 Requirements
- 9.1.3 Design
- 9.1.4 Coding
- 9.1.5 Testing
- 9.1.6 Integration
- 9.1.7 Maintenance
- 9.1.8 Cost Estimation
- 9.1.9 Software Reuse
- 9.1.10 Fault Tolerance
- 9.1.11 Metrics
- 9.1.12 Languages and Efficiency
- 9.1.13 Language Generators
- 9.1.14 Inspections and Reviews
- 9.1.15 Distributed Systems
- 9.1.16 Software Project Management
- 9.1.17 Formal Methods
- 9.1.18 Processes
- 9.1.19 Risk Management
- 9.1.20 Quality Assurance
- 9.1.21 Configuration Management
- 9.1.22 Crystal Ball
- 9.2 How to Read the Software Engineering Research Literature
- 9.3 Further Reading
