Product Description

For almost three decades, Roger Pressman's Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach has been the world's leading textbook in software engineering. The new seventh edition represents a major restructuring and update of previous editions, solidifying the book's position as the most comprehensive guide to this important subject.

The seventh edition of Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach has been designed to consolidate and restructure the content introduced over the past two editions of the book. The chapter structure will return to a more linear presentation of software engineering topics with a direct emphasis on the major activities that are part of a generic software process. Content will focus on widely used software engineering methods and will de-emphasize or completely eliminate discussion of secondary methods, tools and techniques. The intent is to provide a more targeted, prescriptive, and focused approach, while attempting to maintain SEPA's reputation as a comprehensive guide to software engineering.

The book will be organized in five (5) parts-Process, Modeling, Quality Management, Project Management, and Advanced Topics. The chapter count will remain at 32, unchanged from the sixth edition. However, eight new chapters have been developed and another six chapters have undergone major or moderate revisions. The remaining chapters have undergone minor edits/updates.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #200961 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 928 pages

From the Publisher
the latest versions of Java and UML
increased coverage of distributed systems, including security and e-commerce
examination of the web and its implications for software engineering
New case studies and examples which demonstrate how theory is put into practice
The use of Java and UML

About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

Hard work for non-tekkies, but worth the effort
I had been working in the software industry for a few years as a usability consultant on web sites, and also as a producer and project manager. I have never had any formal IT training, but I’ve picked stuff up along the way. I was keen to understand the best practices and different options in software engineering so that I, as a “non-technical” person, could understand and questions the decisions my technical colleagues were making. I don’t want to seem as though I picking on developers, but I have seen many times that developers use a secret language amongst themselves which excludes non-technical people. The frequently ends up with software being developed that does not fit the non-technical people’s requirement. Although I found this book very hard to read, I have learnt an enormous amount from it. I am now able to help steer the software engineering process in way that will ensure that the business requirements are achieved.

I wish I had read this book earlier. I have seen projects spiral out of control because they failed to observe elementary software best practises described in chapters 1 and 2 of this book.

Thanks to this book, I am now a “slightly technical” person who understands most of what my developers are talking about, for which I am grateful. I found the book very hard work, but I imagine that was so because I am most likely not the intended audience. I would recommend the book to colleagues who are sick of being unable to question or understand their developers, and want to understand why their software projects keep turning into disasters.

Pretty Good! Just a little hard to wade through!
Having used this book as the main text for a final year undergrad. course, i have to say it's pretty good! Very comprehensive, but does waffle on in places; you will most definitely find yourself banging your head against the wall after failing to comprehend the chapter you have just read for the 7th time! Still, very good as a reference. Recommended !

Good sound reading, if a little hard to swallow
Pressman's book is a very good resource for budding software engineers, but it is not a book you can just pick up and start reading. The book relies on the fact that you know what he's talking about before you actually read it. A good book for students to use as a resource for coursework, but not the best book to revise from.