Overview

For one-semester courses in software engineering.   Introduces software engineering techniques for developing software products and apps With Engineering Software Products, author Ian Sommerville takes a unique approach to teaching software engineering and focuses on the type of software products and apps that are familiar to students, rather than focusing on project-based techniques. Written in an informal style, this book focuses on software engineering techniques that are relevant for software product engineering. Topics covered include personas and scenarios, cloud-based software, microservices, security and privacy and DevOps. The text is designed for students taking their first course in software engineering with experience in programming using a modern programming language such as Java, Python or Ruby.  

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Author:   Ian Sommerville
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Dimensions:   Width: 19.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.477kg
ISBN:  

9780135210642

ISBN 10:   013521064
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   09 May 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Software Products 1.1 The product vision 1.2 Software product management 1.3 Product prototyping Key points Recommended reading Website Exercises Agile Software Engineering 2.1 Agile methods 2.2 Extreme programming 2.3 Scrum Key points Recommended reading Website Exercises Features, Scenarios and Stories 3.1 Personas 3.2 Scenarios 3.3 User stories 3.4 Feature identification Key points Recommended reading Website Exercises Software Architecture 4.1 Why is architecture important? 4.2 Architectural design 4.3 System decomposition 4.4 Distribution architecture 4.5 Technology issues Key points Recommended reading Website Exercises Cloud-based Software 5.1 Virtualisation and containers 5.2 Everything as a service 5.3 Software as a service 5.4 Multitenant and multi-instance systems 5.5 Cloud software architecture Key points Recommended reading Website Exercises Microservices Architecture 6.1 Microservices 6.2 Microservices architecture 6.3 RESTful services 6.4 Microservice deployment Key points Recommended reading Website Exercises Security and Privacy 7.1 Attacks and defences 7.2 Authentication 7.3 Authorization 7.4 Encryption 7.5 Privacy Key points Recommended reading Website Exercises Reliable Programming 8.1 Fault avoidance 8.2 Input validation 8.3 Failure management Key points Recommended reading Website Exercises Testing 9.1 Functional testing 9.2 Test automation 9.3 Test-driven development 9.4 Security testing 9.5 Code reviews Key points Recommended reading Website Exercises DevOps and Code Management 10.1 Source code management 10.2 DevOps automation 10.3 DevOps measurement Key points Recommended reading Website Exercises

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About our author Ian Sommerville is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at St Andrews University, Scotland. He has a BSc in Physics from Strathclyde University and MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from St Andrews University. He has been a full Professor of Computer Science since 1986 firstly, at Lancaster University, and, subsequently, at St Andrews University. He has written several software engineering textbooks, including Software Engineering, now in its 10th edition, which has been in print since 1982. In 2011, he was awarded both the IEEE TCSE Distinguished Educator award and the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator award. He wrote his first computer program in 1970 and, almost 50 years later, still enjoys programming.

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