Essentials of software engineering

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Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
CHAPTER 1 Creating a Program
	1.1 A Simple Problem
		1.1.1 Decisions, Decisions
		1.1.2 Functional Requirements
		1.1.3 Nonfunctional Requirements
		1.1.4 Design Constraints
		1.1.5 Design Decisions
	1.2 Testing
	1.3 Estimating Effort
	1.4 Implementations
		1.4.1 A Few Pointers on Implementation
		1.4.2 Basic Design
		1.4.3 Unit Testing with JUnit
		1.4.4 Implementation of StringSorter
		1.4.5 User Interfaces
	1.5 Summary
	1.6 Review Questions
	1.7 Exercises
	1.8 References and Suggested Readings
CHAPTER 2 Building a System
	2.1 Characteristics of Building a System
		2.1.1 Size and Complexity
		2.1.2 Technical Considerations of Development and Support
		2.1.3 Nontechnical Considerations of Development and Support
	2.2 Building a Hypothetical System
		2.2.1 Requirements of the Payroll System
		2.2.2 Designing the Payroll System
		2.2.3 Code and Unit Testing the Payroll System
		2.2.4 Integration and Functionally Testing the Payroll System
		2.2.5 Release of the Payroll System
		2.2.6 Support and Maintenance
	2.3 Coordination Efforts
		2.3.1 Process
		2.3.2 Product
		2.3.3 People
	2.4 Summary
	2.5 Review Questions
	2.6 Exercises
	2.7 References and Suggested Readings
CHAPTER 3 Engineering of Software
	3.1 Examples and Characteristics of Software Failures
		3.1.1 Project Failures
		3.1.2 Software Product Failures
		3.1.3 Coordination and Other Concerns
	3.2 Software Engineering
		3.2.1 What Is Software Engineering?
		3.2.2 Definitions of Software Engineering
		3.2.3 Relevancy of Software Engineering and Software
	3.3 Software Engineering Profession and Ethics
		3.3.1 Software Engineering Code of Ethics
		3.3.2 Professional Behavior
	3.4 Principles of Software Engineering
		3.4.1 Davis’s Early Principles of Software Engineering
		3.4.2 Royce’s More Modern Principles
		3.4.3 Wasserman’s Fundamental Software Engineering Concepts
	3.5 Summary
	3.6 Review Questions
	3.7 Exercises
	3.8 References and Suggested Readings
CHAPTER 4 Software Process Models
	4.1 Software Processes
		4.1.1 Goal of Software Process Models
		4.1.2 The “Simplest” Process Model
	4.2 Traditional Process Models
		4.2.1 Waterfall Model
		4.2.2 Chief Programmer Team Approach
		4.2.3 Incremental Model
		4.2.4 Spiral Model
	4.3 A More Modern Process
		4.3.1 General Foundations of Rational Unified Process Framework
		4.3.2 The Phases of RUP
	4.4 Entry and Exit Criteria
		4.4.1 Entry Criteria
		4.4.2 Exit Criteria
	4.5 Process Assessment Models
		4.5.1 SEI’s Capability Maturity Model
		4.5.2 SEI’s Capability Maturity Model Integrated
	4.6 Process Definition and Communication
	4.7 Summary
	4.8 Review Questions
	4.9 Exercises
	4.10 References and Suggested Readings
CHAPTER 5 New and Emerging Process Methodologies
	5.1 What Are Agile Processes?
	5.2 Why Agile Processes?
	5.3 Some Process Methodologies
		5.3.1 Extreme Programming (XP)
		5.3.2 The Crystal Family of Methodologies
		5.3.3 The Unified Process as Agile
		5.3.4 Scrum
		5.3.5 Kanban Method: A New Addition to Agile
		5.3.6 Open Source Software Development
		5.3.7 Summary of Processes
	5.4 Choosing a Process
		5.4.1 Projects and Environments Better Suited for Each Kind of Process
		5.4.2 Main Risks and Disadvantages of Agile Processes
		5.4.3 Main Advantages of Agile Processes
	5.5 Summary
	5.6 Review Questions
	5.7 Exercises
	5.8 References and Suggested Readings
CHAPTER 6 Requirements Engineering
	6.1 Requirements Processing
		6.1.1 Preparing for Requirements Processing
		6.1.2 Requirements Engineering Process
	6.2 Requirements Elicitation and Gathering
		6.2.1 Eliciting High-Level Requirements
		6.2.2 Eliciting Detailed Requirements
	6.3 Requirements Analysis
		6.3.1 Requirements Analysis and Clustering by Business Flow
		6.3.2 Requirements Analysis and Clustering with Object-Oriented Use Cases
		6.3.3 Requirements Analysis and Clustering by Viewpoint-Oriented Requirements Definition
		6.3.4 Requirements Analysis and Prioritization
		6.3.5 Requirements Traceability
	6.4 Requirements Definition, Prototyping, and Reviews
	6.5 Requirements Specification and Requirements Agreement
	6.6 Summary
	6.7 Review Questions
	6.8 Exercises
	6.9 References and Suggested Readings
CHAPTER 7 Design: Architecture and Methodology
	7.1 Introduction to Design
	7.2 Architectural Design
		7.2.1 What Is Software Architecture?
		7.2.2 Views and Viewpoints
		7.2.3 Meta-Architectural Knowledge: Styles, Patterns, Tactics, and Reference Architectures
		7.2.4 A Network-based Web Reference Architecture—REST
	7.3 Detailed Design
		7.3.1 Functional Decomposition
		7.3.2 Relational Database Design
		7.3.3 Designing for Big Data
		7.3.4 Object-Oriented Design and UML
		7.3.5 User-Interface Design
		7.3.6 Some Further Design Concerns
	7.4 HTML-Script-SQL Design Example
	7.5 Summary
	7.6 Review Questions
	7.7 Exercises
	7.8 References and Suggested Readings
CHAPTER 8 Design Characteristics and Metrics
	8.1 Characterizing Design
	8.2 Some Legacy Characterizations of Design Attributes
		8.2.1 Halstead Complexity Metric
		8.2.2 McCabe’s Cyclomatic Complexity
		8.2.3 Henry-Kafura Information Flow
		8.2.4 A Higher-Level Complexity Measure
	8.3 “Good” Design Attributes
		8.3.1 Cohesion
		8.3.2 Coupling
	8.4 OO Design Metrics
		8.4.1 Aspect-Oriented Programming
		8.4.2 The Law of Demeter
	8.5 User-Interface Design
		8.5.1 Good UI Characteristics
		8.5.2 Usability Evaluation and Testing
	8.6 Summary
	8.7 Review Questions
	8.8 Exercises
	8.9 References and Suggested Readings
CHAPTER 9 Implementation
	9.1 Introduction to Implementation
	9.2 Characteristics of a Good Implementation
		9.2.1 Programming Style and Coding Guidelines
		9.2.2 Comments
	9.3 Implementation Practices
		9.3.1 Debugging
		9.3.2 Assertions and Defensive Programming
		9.3.3 Performance Optimization
		9.3.4 Refactoring
		9.3.5 Code Reuse
	9.4 Developing for the Cloud
		9.4.1 Infrastructure as a Service
		9.4.2 Platform as a Service
		9.4.3 Cloud Application Services
		9.4.4 Cloud Services for Developers
		9.4.5 Advantages and Disadvantages of the Cloud
	9.5 Summary
	9.6 Review Questions
	9.7 Exercises
	9.8 References and Suggested Readings
CHAPTER 10 Testing and Quality Assurance
	10.1 Introduction to Testing and Quality Assurance
	10.2 Testing
		10.2.1 The Purposes of Testing
	10.3 Testing Techniques
		10.3.1 Equivalence-Class Partitioning
		10.3.2 Boundary Value Analysis
		10.3.3 Path Analysis
		10.3.4 Combinations of Conditions
		10.3.5 Automated Unit Testing and Test-Driven Development
		10.3.6 An Example of Test-Driven Development
	10.4 When to Stop Testing
	10.5 Inspections and Reviews
	10.6 Formal Methods
	10.7 Static Analysis
	10.8 Summary
	10.9 Review Questions
	10.10 Exercises
	10.11 References and Suggested Readings
CHAPTER 11 Configuration Management, Integration, and Builds
	11.1 Software Configuration Management
	11.2 Policy, Process, and Artifacts
		11.2.1 Business Policy Impact on Configuration Management
		11.2.2 Process Influence on Configuration Management
	11.3 Configuration Management Framework
		11.3.1 Naming Model
		11.3.2 Storage and Access Model
	11.4 Build and Integration and Build
	11.5 Tools for Configuration Management
	11.6 Managing the Configuration Management Framework
	11.7 Summary
	11.8 Review Questions
	11.9 Exercises
	11.10 References and Suggested Readings
CHAPTER 12 Software Support and Maintenance
	12.1 Customer Support
		12.1.1 User Problem Arrival Rate
		12.1.2 Customer Interface and Call Management
		12.1.3 Technical Problem/Fix
		12.1.4 Fix Delivery and Fix Installs
	12.2 Product Maintenance Updates and Release Cycles
	12.3 Change Control
	12.4 Summary
	12.5 Review Questions
	12.6 Exercises
	12.7 References and Suggested Readings
CHAPTER 13 Software Project Management
	13.1 Project Management
		13.1.1 The Need for Project Management
		13.1.2 The Project Management Process
		13.1.3 The Planning Phase of Project Management
		13.1.4 The Organizing Phase of Project Management
		13.1.5 The Monitoring Phase of Project Management
		13.1.6 The Adjusting Phase of Project Management
	13.2 Some Project Management Techniques
		13.2.1 Project Effort Estimation
		13.2.2 Work Breakdown Structure
		13.2.3 Project Status Tracking with Earned Value
		13.2.4 Measuring Project Properties and GQM
	13.3 Summary
	13.4 Review Questions
	13.5 Exercises
	13.6 References and Suggested Readings
CHAPTER 14 Epilogue and Some Contemporary Issues
	14.1 Security and Software Engineering
	14.2 Reverse Engineering and Software Obfuscation
	14.3 Software Validation and Verification Methodologies and Tools
	14.4 References and Suggested Readings
APPENDIX A
	Essential Software Development Plan (SDP)
Appendix B
	Essential Software Requirements Specifications (SRS)
		Example 1: Essential SRS—Descriptive
		Example 2: Essential SRS—Object Oriented
		Example 3: Essential SRS—IEEE Standard
		Example 4: Essential SRS—Narrative Approach
Appendix C
	Essential Software Design
		Example 1: Essential Software Design—UML
		Example 2: Essential Software Design—Structural
Appendix D
	Essential Test Plan
Glossary
Index