Research Methods for Software Engineering Practitioners (5th Edition)

Author: Rogers Pressman
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: The fifth edition of this book has undergone significant revisions based on the fourth edition to adapt to the rapid development in the field of software engineering and to focus on new and important software engineering practices. It aims to serve as a guide for an engineering discipline that is gradually maturing. Like the previous four editions, the fifth edition is aimed at students and practitioners, maintaining its fundamental goal: as a guide for industry professionals and as an introduction to software engineering for senior university students and first-year graduate students. The fifth edition has seen substantial changes in format and online resources, making its presentation more reader-friendly and the content easier to read and understand. Additionally, a comprehensive web site has been developed to supplement the book's content. The translation and publication of this book aim to provide a comprehensive reference, textbook, or practical guide for researchers, educators, managers, and technical personnel in the field of software engineering in China. This book is the fifth edition of the classic work—Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach—which has been renowned in the teaching, research, and application of software engineering for over 20 years. It comprehensively introduces the concepts and methods of the software engineering discipline. The book begins with an overview of software engineering, then covers managing software projects, traditional software engineering methods, object-oriented software engineering methods, and advanced topics in software engineering, including traditional analysis, design, testing, and measurement, object-oriented analysis, design, testing, and measurement, formal methods, cleanroom software engineering, component-based methods, client/server software engineering, web engineering, reengineering, and CASE, among others. Finally, the book also provides predictions and prospects for the future development of the software engineering discipline. This book is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in computer-related fields and an excellent reference for technical personnel in the field of software engineering.