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Shows how to approach the software engineering process with effective tools for defect management and comprehensive planning, tracking, and analysis. Intended for graduate and senior-level undergraduate courses, or for engineers working through the material on their own. The emphasis is on helping software engineers develop the skills and habits needed to work on large, complex projects. No bibliography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.


Book Info
Author presents concepts and methods for a disciplined software engineering process and shows how small project disciplines provide a solid base for larger projects. DLC: Software engineering.


From the Back Cover
This new work from Watts Humphrey lays the foundation for a disciplined approach to software engineering. In his previous book, Humphrey developed methods for managing an organization's software process. These methods, now commonly practiced in industry, provide to programmers and managers specific steps they can take to evaluate and to improve their software development and software maintenance capabilities. In Humphrey's new book, he scales those methods down to a more personal level, helping software engineers working on relatively small-scale programs to develop the skills and the habits they will need later in their professional life to plan, track, and analyze large and complex software projects more carefully and more successfully. Clear examples and samples drawn from industry enhance the practical focus of the book. Exercises in the form of projects give readers the opportunity to practice process management as they learn it, a comprehensive instructor's set includes notes on teaching the course, overhead masters, modifiable assignment kits in Word, and a statistical support package in the form of Excel spreadsheets for the analysis of individual and class data. Features Presents concepts and methods for a disciplined software engineering process Scales down industrial practices for planning, tracking, analysis, and defect management to for the needs of small-scale program development Shows how small project disciplines provide a solid base for larger projects

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About the Author

Watts S. Humphrey is well known as the author of several influential books on the software development process and software process improvement. Humphrey is a fellow of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon, where he founded the Software Process Program and provided the vision and early leadership for the original Capability Maturity Model (CMM). He also is the creator of the Personal Software Process (PSP) and Team Software Process (TSP), methods designed to improve the quality of work done by both individual developers and project teams. Most recently Humphrey was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President George W. Bush. This is the highest honor awarded by the president to America’s leading innovators.

ANNOTATION

Watts S. Humphrey, author of Managing the Software Process, broadens his disciplined approach to software engineering. In this book, Humphrey helps software practitioners develop the skills and the habits they will need in order to plan, track, and analyze large and complex projects more carefully and successfully. Clear examples and sample forms of projects are included.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This new work from Watts Humphrey, author of the influential book, Managing the Software Process, broadens his orderly view of software process management, and lays the foundation for a disciplined approach to software engineering. In his earlier book, the author developed concrete methods for managing software development and maintenance. These methods, now commonly practiced in industry, provide programmers and managers with specific steps they can take to evaluate and improve their software capabilities. In this new book, Humphrey scales those methods down to a personal level, helping software engineers develop the skills and habits needed to plan, track, and analyze large, complex projects. Humphrey and others have used material from this book to train professionals and students around the world in a projects-oriented software engineering course. First establishing the need for discipline in software engineering, and the benefits to practitioners of learning how to manage their personal software process, Humphrey then develops a model that they can use to monitor, test, and improve their work. Examples drawn from industry enhance the practical focus of the book, while project exercises give readers the opportunity to practice software process management as they learn it. Features: presents concepts and methods for a disciplined software engineering process; scales down industrial practices for planning, tracking, analysis, and defect management to fit the needs of small-scale program development; and shows how small project disciplines provide a solid base for larger projects.

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Shows how to approach the software engineering process with effective tools for defect management and comprehensive planning, tracking, and analysis. Intended for graduate and senior-level undergraduate courses, or for engineers working through the material on their own. The emphasis is on helping software engineers develop the skills and habits needed to work on large, complex projects. No bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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