SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS

Software Engineering: Concepts and Applications is designed to be a readable, practical guide for software engineering students as well as practitioners who are learning software engineering as they practice it. The book presents critical insights and techniques every student heading into the software engineering job market needs to know, and many seasoned software engineers must grasp to be better at their jobs. The subject matter of each chapter is strongly motivated and has clear take-aways that a student is bound to remember and apply. A continuous case study and chapter specific exercises illustrate how each idea relates to the bigger picture and how they can be applied in practice. Common pitfalls and workarounds have also been highlighted.

This book presents software engineering not as an amalgamation of dry facts, but as a living and vibrant vocation with great growth potential in the near future. It is endowed with the results and insights from the author's own research, teaching, and industry experience which will help students easily understand the concepts and skills that are so vital in the real world of software development.

Subhajit Datta is involved in software engineering research and currently teaching Internet technologies at the Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA. He is the author of the much-acclaimed book Metrics-Driven Enterprise Software Systems (J.Ross Publishing, 2007) and has wide experience in developing large scale software systems. He worked as a software engineer with IBM Global Services in roles of technical lead, business systems analyst, release manager, and application developer.