Product Description' Sensible choice and organization of topics, made all the more authoritative by the author's credentials as a senior academic in the area 'Prof. David S. Rosenblum, University College London ' I find Somerville inviting and readable and with more appropriate content 'Julian Padget, University of Bath ' Sommerville takes case studies from radically different areas of SE. This avoids excessive stereotyping (hence blinkering), but permits some depth and detail. ' Dr C Lester, Portsmouth University Software Engineering 8 presents a broad perspective on software systems engineering, concentrating on widely used techniques for developing large-scale systems. Structured into 6 parts: 1: Introduction; 2: Requirements Engineering; 3: Design; 4: Software Development; 5: Verification and Validation; 6: Management And now with additional new chapters on System Security Engineering, Aspect-oriented Software Development, and Service-oriented systems!Building on the widely acclaimed strengths of the 7th edition, 8 updates readers with the latest developments in the field, whilst maintaining the structure and content of the 7th easily upward compatible for those using the text in a teaching environment.
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Rating: - Too much repetition
I used this book as the text in my software engineering class in the spring semester of 2008. When I was evaluating it for potential adoption, I did not read through it in detail, I looked over the chapter titles and subtitles, read the first few chapters and examined the exercises at the end of the first few chapters. As the semester progressed, I found myself wishing I had read further into the text.
As I moved through the chapters, I found myself mentally noting over and over again that ... Read More
Rating: - too bloated
it feels like this book goes out its way to stretch easily understandable concepts into a huge 900 page book.
Rating: - Comprehensive
This book is a good book to learn from, it can be a little boring at times but in general it is a good study tool that keeps subject matters seperate where they should be
Rating: - Good high-level book
This is a good high-level book for a first software engineering course. It mentions things like critical systems, object oriented programming, and real -time systems, but at a very high level; so it should not be used for a specialized course. It provides many helpful examples and diagrams. My only complaint is that the chapters are very long, and a lot of things are repeated several times. I think this book could easily be 75% shorter without loosing any important information.
Rating: - A nice book in software engineering
I bought this book as a required textbook for my grad course. I've learned a lot from my past misconception and misunderstanding between software science and software engineering just after reading a few chapters from the book.
The book covers wide aspects of engineering a software, both technical aspects and non-technical aspects (social, laws, ethics) although not in deep-breath details.
I highly recommend this book for any students who want to know about software engineering, ... Read More
- Too much repetition
- A nice book in software engineering
