Beginning Software Engineering
2nd Edition
Published on 7. October 2022
720 pages
978-1-119-90172-3 (ISBN)
Description
Discover the foundations of software engineering with this easy and intuitive guide
In the newly updated second edition of Beginning Software Engineering, expert programmer and tech educator Rod Stephens delivers an instructive and intuitive introduction to the fundamentals of software engineering. In the book, you'll learn to create well-constructed software applications that meet the needs of users while developing the practical, hands-on skills needed to build robust, efficient, and reliable software.
The author skips the unnecessary jargon and sticks to simple and straightforward English to help you understand the concepts and ideas discussed within. He also offers you real-world tested methods you can apply to any programming language.
You'll also get:
* Practical tips for preparing for programming job interviews, which often include questions about software engineering practices
* A no-nonsense guide to requirements gathering, system modeling, design, implementation, testing, and debugging
* Brand-new coverage of user interface design, algorithms, and programming language choices
Beginning Software Engineering doesn't assume any experience with programming, development, or management. It's plentiful figures and graphics help to explain the foundational concepts and every chapter offers several case examples, Try It Out, and How It Works explanatory sections.
For anyone interested in a new career in software development, or simply curious about the software engineering process, Beginning Software Engineering, Second Edition is the handbook you've been waiting for.
In the newly updated second edition of Beginning Software Engineering, expert programmer and tech educator Rod Stephens delivers an instructive and intuitive introduction to the fundamentals of software engineering. In the book, you'll learn to create well-constructed software applications that meet the needs of users while developing the practical, hands-on skills needed to build robust, efficient, and reliable software.
The author skips the unnecessary jargon and sticks to simple and straightforward English to help you understand the concepts and ideas discussed within. He also offers you real-world tested methods you can apply to any programming language.
You'll also get:
* Practical tips for preparing for programming job interviews, which often include questions about software engineering practices
* A no-nonsense guide to requirements gathering, system modeling, design, implementation, testing, and debugging
* Brand-new coverage of user interface design, algorithms, and programming language choices
Beginning Software Engineering doesn't assume any experience with programming, development, or management. It's plentiful figures and graphics help to explain the foundational concepts and every chapter offers several case examples, Try It Out, and How It Works explanatory sections.
For anyone interested in a new career in software development, or simply curious about the software engineering process, Beginning Software Engineering, Second Edition is the handbook you've been waiting for.
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ROD STEPHENS is a former Microsoft MVP, programmer, and award-winning instructor who speaks regularly at programming conferences and users' group meetings. He has written more than 250 magazine articles as well as 37 books that have been translated into at least ten different languages on topics including C#, Python, and other languages. He runs the popular C# Helper and VB Helper web sites.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- What Is Software Engineering?
- Why Is Software Engineering Important?
- Who Should Read This Book?
- Approach
- What This Book Covers (and What It Doesn't)
- What Tools Do You Need?
- Conventions
- Errata
- Important URLs
- Contacting the Author
- Disclaimer
- Part I Software Engineering Step-by-Step
- Chapter 1 Software Engineering from 20,000 Feet
- Requirements Gathering
- High-Level Design
- Low-Level Design
- Development
- Testing
- Deployment
- Maintenance
- Wrap-up
- Everything All at Once
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Chapter 2 Before the Beginning
- Document Management
- Historical Documents
- Code
- Code Documentation
- Application Documentation
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Chapter 3 The Team
- Team Features
- Clear Roles
- Effective Leadership
- Clear Goals
- Consensus
- Open Communication
- Support for Risk-Taking
- Shared Accountability
- Informal Atmosphere
- Trust
- Team Roles
- Common Roles
- More-Specialized Roles
- Informal Roles
- Roles Wrap-Up
- Team Culture
- Interviews
- Interview Puzzles
- The Bottom Line
- Physical Environment
- Creativity
- Office Space
- Ergonomics
- Work-Life Balance
- Collaboration Software
- Searching
- Overload
- Outsourcing
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Chapter 4 Project Management
- Executive Support
- Project Management
- PERT Charts
- Critical Path Methods
- Gantt Charts
- Scheduling Software
- Predicting Times
- Get Experience
- Break Unknown Tasks into Simpler Pieces
- Look for Similarities
- Expect the Unexpected
- Track Progress
- Risk Management
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Chapter 5 Requirements Gathering
- Requirements Defined
- Clear
- Unambiguous
- Consistent
- Prioritized
- Verifiable
- Words to Avoid
- Requirement Categories
- Audience-Oriented Requirements
- Business Requirements
- User Requirements
- Functional Requirements
- Nonfunctional Requirements
- Implementation Requirements
- FURPS
- FURPS+
- Common Requirements
- Gathering Requirements
- Listen to Customers (and Users)
- Use the Five Ws (and One H)
- Who
- What
- When
- Where
- Why
- How
- Study Users
- Refining Requirements
- Copy Existing Systems
- Clairvoyance
- Brainstorm
- Recording Requirements
- UML
- User Stories
- Use Cases
- Prototypes
- Requirements Specification
- Validation and Verification
- Changing Requirements
- Digital Transformation
- What to Digitize
- How to Digitize
- Summary
- Exercises
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Chapter 6 High-Level Design
- The Big Picture
- What to Specify
- Security
- Hardware
- User Interface
- Internal Interfaces
- External Interfaces
- Architecture
- Monolithic
- Client/Server
- Component-Based
- Service-Oriented
- Data-Centric
- Event-Driven
- Rule-Based
- Distributed
- Mix and Match
- Reports
- Other Outputs
- Database
- Audit Trails
- User Access
- Database Maintenance
- NoSQL
- Cloud Databases
- Configuration Data
- Data Flows and States
- Training
- UML
- Structure Diagrams
- Behavior Diagrams
- Activity Diagrams
- Use Case Diagram
- State Machine Diagram
- Interaction Diagrams
- Sequence Diagram
- Communication Diagram
- Timing Diagram
- Interaction Overview Diagram
- UML Summary
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Chapter 7 Low-Level Design
- Design Approaches
- Design-to-Schedule
- Design-to-Tools
- Process-Oriented Design
- Data-Oriented Design
- Object-Oriented Design
- Hybrid Approaches
- High, Low, and Iterative Design
- OO Design
- Identifying Classes
- Building Inheritance Hierarchies
- Refinement
- Generalization
- Hierarchy Warning Signs
- Object Composition
- Database Design
- Relational Databases
- First Normal Form
- Second Normal Form
- Third Normal Form
- Higher Levels of Normalization
- When to Optimize
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Chapter 8 Security Design
- Security Goals
- Security Types
- Cybersecurity
- Shift-Left Security
- Malware Menagerie
- Phishing and Spoofing
- Social Engineering Attacks
- Crapware
- Password Attacks
- User Access
- Countermeasures
- Cyber Insurance
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Chapter 9 User Experience Design
- Design Mindset
- UI vs. UX
- UX Designers
- Platform
- User Skill Level
- Beginners and Beyond
- Configuration
- Hidden Configuration
- Models
- Metaphors and Idioms
- Case Study: Microsoft Word
- Design Guidelines
- Allow Exploration
- Make the Interface Immutable
- Support Commensurate Difficulty
- Avoid State
- Make Similar Things Similar
- Provide Redundant Commands
- Do the Right Thing
- Show Qualitative Data, Explain Quantitative Data
- Give Forms Purpose
- Gather All Information at Once
- Provide Reasonable Performance
- Only Allow What's Right
- Flag Mistakes
- Form Design
- Use Standard Controls
- Decorating
- Displaying
- Arranging
- Commanding
- Selecting
- Entering
- Display Five Things
- Arrange Controls Nicely
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Chapter 10 Programming
- Tools
- Hardware
- Network
- Development Environment
- Source Code Control
- Profilers
- Static Analysis Tools
- Testing Tools
- Source Code Formatters
- Refactoring Tools
- Training
- Collaboration Tools
- Algorithms
- Top-Down Design
- Programming Tips and Tricks
- Be Alert
- Write for People, Not the Computer
- Comment First
- Write Self-Documenting Code
- Keep It Small
- Stay Focused
- Avoid Side Effects
- Validate Results
- Practice Offensive Programming
- Use Exceptions
- Write Exception Handlers First
- Don't Repeat Code
- Defer Optimization
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Chapter 11 Algorithms
- Algorithm Study
- Algorithmic Approaches
- Decision Trees
- Knapsack
- The Eight Queens Problem
- Exhaustive Search
- Backtracking
- Pruning Trees
- Branch and Bound
- Heuristics
- Greedy
- Divide and Conquer
- Recursion
- Dynamic Programming
- Caching
- Randomization
- Monte Carlo Algorithms
- Las Vegas Algorithms
- Atlantic City Algorithms
- State Diagrams
- Design Patterns
- Creational Patterns
- Structural Patterns
- Behavioral Patterns
- Design Pattern Summary
- Parallel Programming
- Artificial Intelligence
- Definitions
- Learning Systems
- Natural Language Processing
- Artificial Neural Network
- Deep Learning
- Expert System
- Artificial General Intelligence
- Algorithm Characteristics
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Chapter 12 Programming Languages
- The Myth of Picking a Language
- Language Generations
- First Generation
- Second Generation
- Third Generation (3GL)
- Fourth Generation
- Fifth Generation
- Sixth Generation
- IDEs
- Language Families
- Assembly
- Imperative
- Procedural
- Declarative
- Object-Oriented
- Functional
- Specialized
- Language Family Summary
- The Best Language
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Chapter 13 Testing
- Testing Goals
- Reasons Bugs Never Die
- Diminishing Returns
- Deadlines
- Consequences
- It's Too Soon
- Usefulness
- Obsolescence
- It's Not a Bug
- It Never Ends
- It's Better Than Nothing
- Fixing Bugs Is Dangerous
- Which Bugs to Fix
- Levels of Testing
- Unit Testing
- Integration Testing
- Regression Testing
- Automated Testing
- Component Interface Testing
- System Testing
- Acceptance Testing
- Other Testing Categories
- Testing Techniques
- Exhaustive Testing
- Black-Box Testing
- White-Box Testing
- Gray-Box Testing
- Testing Habits
- Test and Debug When Alert
- Test Your Own Code
- Have Someone Else Test Your Code
- Fix Your Own Bugs
- Think Before You Change
- Don't Believe in Magic
- See What Changed
- Fix Bugs, Not Symptoms
- Test Your Tests
- How to Fix a Bug
- Estimating Number of Bugs
- Tracking Bugs Found
- Seeding
- The Lincoln Index
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Chapter 14 Deployment
- Scope
- The Plan
- Cutover
- Staged Deployment
- Gradual Cutover
- Incremental Deployment
- Parallel Testing
- Deployment Tasks
- Deployment Mistakes
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Chapter 15 Metrics
- Wrap Party
- Defect Analysis
- Species of Bugs
- Discoverer
- Severity
- Creation Time
- Age at Fix
- Task Type
- Defect Database
- Ishikawa Diagrams
- Software Metrics
- Qualities of Good Attributes and Metrics
- Using Metrics
- Process Metrics
- Project Metrics
- Things to Measure
- Size Normalization
- Function Point Normalization
- Count Function Point Metrics
- Multiply by Complexity Factors
- Calculate Complexity Adjustment Value
- Calculate Adjusted FP
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Chapter 16 Maintenance
- Maintenance Costs
- Task Categories
- Perfective Tasks
- Feature Improvements
- New Features
- The Second System Effect
- Adaptive Tasks
- Corrective Tasks
- Preventive Tasks
- Clarification
- Code Reuse
- Improved Flexibility
- Bug Swarms
- Bad Programming Practices
- Individual Bugs
- Not Invented Here
- Task Execution
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Part II Process Models
- Chapter 17 Predictive Models
- Model Approaches
- Prerequisites
- Predictive and Adaptive
- Success and Failure Indicators for Predictive Models
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Predictive Models
- Waterfall
- Waterfall with Feedback
- Sashimi
- Incremental Waterfall
- V-model
- Software Development Life Cycle
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Chapter 18 Iterative Models
- Iterative vs. Predictive
- Iterative vs. Incremental
- Prototypes
- Types of Prototypes
- Pros and Cons
- Spiral
- Clarifications
- Pros and Cons
- Unified Process
- Pros and Cons
- Rational Unified Process
- Cleanroom
- Cowboy Coding
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Chapter 19 RAD
- RAD Principles
- James Martin RAD
- Agile
- Self-Organizing Teams
- Agile Techniques
- Communication
- Incremental Development
- Focus on Quality
- XP
- XP Roles
- XP Values
- XP Practices
- Have a Customer On-Site
- Play the Planning Game
- Use Stand-UpMeetings
- Make Frequent Small Releases
- Use Intuitive Metaphors
- Keep Designs Simple
- Defer Optimization
- Refactor When Necessary
- Give Everyone Ownership of the Code
- Use Coding Standards
- Promote Generalization
- Use Pair Programming
- Test Constantly
- Integrate Continuously
- Work Sustainably
- Use Test-Drivenand Test-First Development
- Scrum
- Scrum Roles
- Scrum Sprints
- Planning Poker
- Burndown
- Velocity
- Lean
- Lean Principles
- Crystal
- Crystal Clear
- Crystal Yellow
- Crystal Orange
- Feature-Driven Development
- FDD Roles
- FDD Phases
- Develop a Model
- Build a Feature List
- Plan by Feature
- Design by Feature
- Build by Feature
- FDD Iteration Milestones
- Disciplined Agile Delivery
- DAD Principles
- DAD Roles
- DAD Phases
- Dynamic Systems Development Method
- DSDM Phases
- DSDM Principles
- DSDM Roles
- Kanban
- Kanban Principles
- Kanban Practices
- Kanban Board
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Part III Advanced Topics
- Chapter 20 Software Ethics
- Ethical Behavior
- IEEE-CS/ACM
- ACS
- CPSR
- Business Ethics
- NADA
- Hacker Ethics
- Hacker Terms
- Responsibility
- Gray Areas
- Software Engineering Dilemmas
- Misusing Data and the Temptation of Free Data
- Disruptive Technology
- Algorithmic Bias
- False Confidence
- Lack of Oversight
- Getting Paid
- Thought Experiments
- The Tunnel Problem
- The Trolley Problem
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Chapter 21 Future Trends
- Security
- UX/UI
- Code Packaging
- Cloud Technology
- Software Development
- Algorithms
- Tech Toys
- Summary
- What You Learned in This Chapter
- Appendix: Solutions to Exercises
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Glossary
- Index
- EULA
