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These slides are designed to accompany Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach, 7/e (McGraw-Hill 2009). Slides copyright 2009 by Roger Pressman. 1 Software Engineering Some realities: a concerted effort should be made to understand the problem before a software solution is developed design becomes a pivotal activity software should exhibit high quality software should be maintainable The seminal definition: [Software engineering is] the establishment and use of sound engineering principles in order to obtain economically software that is reliable and works efficiently on real machines.
These slides are designed to accompany Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach, 7/e (McGraw-Hill 2009). Slides copyright 2009 by Roger Pressman. 2 Software Engineering The IEEE definition: Software Engineering: (1) The application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software; that is, the application of engineering to software. (2) The study of approaches as in (1).
These slides are designed to accompany Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach, 7/e (McGraw-Hill 2009). Slides copyright 2009 by Roger Pressman. 3 A Layered Technology
tools
methods
process model
a “quality” focus
Software Engineering
These slides are designed to accompany Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach, 7/e (McGraw-Hill 2009). Slides copyright 2009 by Roger Pressman. 4 A Process Framework Process framework Framework activities work tasks work products milestones & deliverables QA checkpoints Umbrella Activities
These slides are designed to accompany Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach, 7/e (McGraw-Hill 2009). Slides copyright 2009 by Roger Pressman. 5 Framework Activities Communication Planning Modeling Analysis of requirements Design Construction Code generation Testing Deployment
These slides are designed to accompany Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach, 7/e (McGraw-Hill 2009). Slides copyright 2009 by Roger Pressman. 6 Umbrella Activities Software project management Formal technical reviews Software quality assurance Software configuration management Work product preparation and production Reusability management Measurement Risk management
These slides are designed to accompany Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach, 7/e (McGraw-Hill 2009). Slides copyright 2009 by Roger Pressman. 7 Adapting a Process Model the overall flow of activities, actions, and tasks and the interdependencies among them the degree to which actions and tasks are defined within each framework activity the degree to which work products are identified and required the manner which quality assurance activities are applied the manner in which project tracking and control activities are applied the overall degree of detail and rigor with which the process is described the degree to which the customer and other stakeholders are involved with the project the level of autonomy given to the software team the degree to which team organization and roles are prescribed These slides are designed to accompany Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach, 7/e (McGraw-Hill 2009). Slides copyright 2009 by Roger Pressman. 8
