Software Engineering : A Practical Approach

Software Engineering - A Practical Approach By Laxmidhar V. Gaopande Book Description This book covers all the important topics in software engineering like software projects, execution models, SDLC, development models like Waterfall, Iterative, Incremental, Spiral, Agile and TDD. Business requirement documents (BRD), functional requirement documents (FRD), software requirement specifications (SRS), analysis, design, architecture structured system analysis and design method (SSADM), object oriented analysis and design (OOAD), unified modelling language (UML), Usability, User experience (UX), Quality and Quality systems like ISO 9001, SEI CMMI. Software testing covers details of software testing, testing types and testing models etc. Details of configuration management, release management, risk management, software support, project management are covered in detail. Software estimation is covered in very detail with estimation techniques, like Agile estimation, class based simplified estimation for OOAD systems, function point analysis, Mark II, COCOMO etc. Templates for various artifacts are also listed and will be useful for the software engineering work. The book covers five interesting case studies and learnings from them from author own practical experience while executing software projects and product development. The author has also given interesting eighteen exercises for developing a new software system covering all the topics in software engineering.