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.

---

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #116814 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 864 pages

From the Back Cover

 

SOMMERVILLE

Software Engineering 8

 

The eighth edition of the best-selling introduction to software engineering is now updated with three new chapters on state-of-the-art topics.

 

New chapters in the 8th edition

 

Ø      Security engineering, showing youhow you can design software to resist attacks and recover from damage;

Ø      Service-oriented software engineering, explaininghow reusable web services can be used to develop new applications;

Ø      Aspect-oriented software development, introducing new techniques based on the separation of concerns.

 

Key features

 

Ø      Includes the latest developments in software engineering theory and practice, integrated with relevant aspects of systems engineering.

Ø      Extensive coverage ofagile methods andreuse.

Ø      Integrated coverage of system safety, security and reliability – illustrating best practice in developing critical systems.

Ø      Two running case studies (an information system and a control system) illuminate different stages of thesoftware lifecycle.

 

Online resources

 

Visit www.pearsoned.co.uk/sommerville to access a full range of resources for students and instructors.

 

In addition, a rich collection of resources including links to other web sites, teaching material on related courses and additional chapters is available at http://www.software-engin.com.

 

 

IAN SOMMERVILLE is Professor of Software Engineering at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

 

 

---

Customer Reviews

It is a very useful book for the person who learns Software Engineering
I am a student in the field of software engineering.My teacher rcommended this book for me.And I use it as a dictionary.So it's a very useful book for the person who learns Software Engineering.

I didn't like it!
I am currently studying my Masters in IT, with the speciality of Software Engineering. Since I study online, this is the textbook provided to us as our reference to do our reading. I thought - from the book's title - that I had the perfect book!
With all due respect to the author (Ian Sommerville), I did not like it. It was nicely divided into 3 appropriate sections, but many of its chapters referred to examples and explanations in later (or even previous) chapters. I read alot of "more on this in chapter **" or "the example in figure x.ii" (when we are reading in later chapters). Many of my colleagues also complained about the book. I had to go back and forth between the chapters to understand what is being said (after having read each paragraph a couple of times). That is besides the examples not being too informative. Alot of times, I had to research the topic and examples online. I had read a few online papers by Ian Sommerville, and I believe he could've written the book much better!

Look elsewhere
This is an overbroad introduction to the field. Practiculey none of the techniques mentioned in this book are of use to 90% of organisations. If you are looking for good, practicle, non-trivial books on the subject look up Craig Larmen.