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Software Engineering

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Summary

"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 Oslash; Security engineering, showing youhow you can design software to resist attacks and recover from damage; Oslash; Service-oriented software engineering, explaininghow reusable web services can be used to develop new applications; Oslash; Aspect-oriented software development, introducing new techniques based on the separation of concerns. Key features Oslash; Includes the latest developments in software engineering theory and practice, integrated with relevant aspects of systems engineering. Oslash; Extensive coverage ofagile methods andreuse. Oslash; Integrated coverage of system safety, security and reliability ndash; illustrating best practice in developing critical systems. Oslash; Two running case studies (an information system and a control system) illuminate different stages of thesoftware lifecycle."

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A good description of some of the state of the art technologies in the field of Software Engineering, including the latest developments in software engineering theory and practice.

Citation

Ian Sommerville, Software engineering, Pearson Education, 2006.

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