Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 256 pages
- Published by: McGraw-Hill
- Edition: 1st Edition June 24, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0071377948
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0071377942
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Book Dimensions:
10.8 x 8.1 x 0.5 inches
- Weighs: 14.9 ounces
Reader Reviews
I purchased this as a required book for a graduate course I took (CS 5704 at Virginia Tech). It is an excellent roadmap for a broad scope of software engineering topics. But you should expect to treat it as a directory of topics from which you must branch out for more in-depth treatment and experience of the topics. The book is generally well written. Is is very readable and clear, though I do have some complaints. Many topics presuppose other knowledge referenced nowhere else in the book. For example, Chapter 5 on Software Metrics includes a short section on Statistics, which refer to Spearman correlations and Pearson correlations, with no clue as to what they are. One area in particular, Software Project Management, is 16 pages in its entirety. I have been a software development manager since 1988 and it is almost criminal to lead anyone to believe that what they need to know about this topic in 16 pages. The material there is quite good, and I learned something new myself, but the brevity could be quite misleading to a naive student. Many chapters in this book are deserving of having one (or more) college courses dedicated to the subject. Software Design alone, a single chapter here, takes years to master the concepts described. However, this book is marketed as an outline, and a very good outline it is.
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