Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence <br/><br/>
Software engineering :   theory and practice /  
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger. 
 - Upper Saddle River:  Prentice Hall,  1998 
 - 576 p. 
<br/><br/>CONTENIDO<br/>1 Why Software Engineering? 1<br/>1.1 What Is Software Engineering? 2<br/>1.2 How Successful Have We Been? 5<br/>1.3 What Is Good Software? 8<br/>1.4 Who Does Software Engineering? 14<br/>1.5 A Systems Approach 16<br/>1.6 An Engineering Approach 21<br/>1.7 Members of the Development Team 25<br/>1.8 How Has Software Engineering Changed? 27<br/>2 Modeling the Process and Life-Cycle 44<br/>2.1 The Meaning of Process 44<br/>2.2 Software Process Models 47<br/>2.3 Tools and Techniques for Process Modeling 58<br/>2.4 Practical Process Modeling 66<br/>3 Planning and Managing the Project 76<br/>3.1 Tracking Progress 76<br/>3.2 Project Personnel 89<br/>3.3 Effort Estimation 98<br/>3.4 Risk Management 113<br/>3.5 The Project Plan 118<br/>3.6 Process Models and Project Management 120<br/>4 Capturing the Requirements 135<br/>4.1 The Requirements Process 136<br/>4.2 Types of Requirements 142<br/>4.3 Characteristics of Requirements 145<br/>4.4 How to Express Requirements 147<br/>4.5 Additional Requirements Notations 161<br/>4.6 Prototyping Requirements 169<br/>4.7 Requirements Documentation 171<br/>4.8 Participants in the Requirements Process 174<br/>4.9 Requirements Validation 174<br/>4.10 Measuring Requirements 178<br/>4.11 Choosing a Requirements Specification Technique 180<br/>5 Designing the System 192<br/>5.1 What Is Design? 192<br/>5.2 Decomposition and Modularity 195<br/>5.3 Architectural Styles and Strategies 198<br/>5.4 Issues in Design Creation 206<br/>5.5 Characteristics of Good Design 216<br/>5.6 Techniques for Improving Design 228<br/>5.7 Design Evaluation and Validation 236<br/>5.8 Documenting the Design 245<br/>6 Writing the Programs 254<br/>6.1 Programming Standards and Procedures 254<br/>6.2 Programming Guidelines 257<br/>6.3 Documentation 267<br/>7 Testing the Programs 278<br/>7.1 Software Faults and Failures 278<br/>7.2 Testing Issues 284<br/>7.3 Unit Testing 289<br/>7.4 Integration Testing 303<br/>7.5 Testing Object-Oriented Systems 310<br/>7.6 Test Planning 313<br/>7.7 Automated Testing Tools 315<br/>7.8 When to Stop Testing 318<br/>8 Testing the System 330<br/>8.1 Principles of System Testing 330<br/>8.2 Function Testing 343<br/>8.3 Performance Testing 349<br/>8.4 Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability 351<br/>8.5 Acceptance Testing 360<br/>8.6 Installation Testing 363<br/>8.7 Automated System Testing 363<br/>8.8 Test Documentation 365<br/>8.9 Testing Safety-Critical Systems 374<br/>9 Delivering the System 396<br/>9.1 Training 396<br/>9.2 Documentation 401<br/>10 Maintaining the System 412<br/>10.1 The Changing System 412<br/>10.2 The Nature of Maintenance 420<br/>10.3 Maintenance Problems 423<br/>10.4 Measuring Maintenance Characteristics 431<br/>10.5 Maintenance Techniques and Tools 437<br/>10.6 Software Rejuvenation 444<br/>11 Evaluating Products, Processes, and Resources 456<br/>11.1 Approaches to Evaluation 456<br/>11.2 Selecting an Evaluation Technique 461<br/>11.3 Assessment vs. Prediction 465<br/>11.4 Evaluating Products 471<br/>11.5 Evaluating Processes 487<br/>11.6 Evaluating Resources 502<br/>12 Improving Predictions, Products, Processes, and Resources 512<br/>12.1 Improving Prediction 513<br/>12.2 Improving Products 520<br/>12.3 Improving Processes 524<br/>12.4 Improving Resources 533<br/>12.5 General Improvement Guidelines 536<br/>12.6 The Future of Software Engineering 537<br/>Annotated Bibliography<br/>Index 569 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>013624842X 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>SOFTWARE ENGINEERING<br/>MANAGING PROJECT
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>004.41 P483