Software Engineering: The Current Practice

With a focus on current software engineering practice, this text integrates real-world processes, methods, and tools into the traditional software engineering curriculum. Object-oriented technology serves as the foundation for the topics in the book. Programmers and software managers can use the book to acquire a unified view of contemporary software engineering. The text presents an overview of how various recent developments fit together and fit into the contemporary software engineering mosaic. It covers state-of-the-art software topics, including techniques that change software in response to change requests, and the role of software changes in iterative processes of software development. It also describes iterative, agile, and traditional software engineering techniques.