Principles of Software Engineering and System Design

This book is the outcome of the experience gained by the authors in teaching software engineering over many years. The authors have explained the abstract concepts in software engineering by providing numerous examples throughout the book. Adequate number of diagrams and worked out examples have been given to improve the clarity of understanding of the different methodologies and techniques. The contents of the book have been organized into 12 chapters. Chapter 1 deals with the initial concepts and evolution of software engineering. Chapter 2 deals with the models used for Software Development Life Cycle. Chapters 3 to 6 have been devoted to provide detailed learning on Requirement Engineering, Conventional Function Oriented Design and the more recent Object Oriented Design with Unified Modeling Language (UML) notations and diagrams. Chapter 7 emphasises on software product being developed for the Web Engineering. Chapter 8 covers Testing which is an important quality activity in software engineering. Chapter 9 has been devoted to software project management and special emphasis has been given to software project estimation methods in Chapter 10. Further quality systems and procedures to establish development of high quality, reliable software across an enterprise have been covered in Chapter 11. Chapter 12 deals with the current developments in this field.