Product Description

For over 20 years, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach has been the best selling guide to software engineering for students and industry professionals alike.

The sixth edition continues to lead the way in software engineering. A new Part 4 on Web Engineering presents a complete engineering approach for the analysis, design, and testing of Web Applications, increasingly important for today's students. Additionally, the UML coverage has been enhanced and signficantly increased in this new edition.

The pedagogy has also been improved in the new edition to include sidebars. They provide information on relevant softare tools, specific work flow for specific kinds of projects, and additional information on various topics. Additionally, Pressman provides a running case study called "Safe Home" throughout the book, which provides the application of software engineering to an industry project.

New additions to the book also include chapters on the Agile Process Models, Requirements Engineering, and Design Engineering. The book has been completely updated and contains hundreds of new references to software tools that address all important topics in the book.

The ancillary material for the book includes an expansion of the case study, which illustrates it with UML diagrams. The On-Line Learning Center includes resources for both instructors and students such as checklists, 700 categorized web references, Powerpoints, a test bank, and a software engineering library-containing over 500 software engineering papers. TAKEAWY HERE IS THE FOLLOWING: 1. AGILE PROCESS METHODS ARE COVERED EARLY IN CH. 4 2. NEW PART ON WEB APPLICATIONS --5 CHAPTERS

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45144 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-02
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 880 pages

About the Author
Roger S. Pressman is an internationally recognised authority on software process improvement and software engineering technologies. He is currently president of R. S. Pressman and Associates Inc., a consultancy specialising in software engineering practices.

Customer Reviews

Pressman, you are not helping me
This book will bring you up to speed on all the buzz words for all the methodologies, but thats the extent of the book.

This book covers very little of actually process, how to analyze and existing process, how to setup a new process or improve a process. It actually does a very poor job of explaining what sofrware engineering is all about and leaves you feeling that is about writing documents, not about creating reliable, verifiable software.

Roger Pressman, thanks for Engineering Confusion!
I used this book in my Grad class and I'm still confused. I don't know what to make of this book. On the one hand, I think the author tries to cover most of the important topics, but on the other, the book falls short in intellectual substance.

Problems at the end of each chapter are very time consuming, and in some cases cannot be answered at all. This makes me wonder if the author can answer any of those tough questions that he wants you to ponder.

If you're looking for a good SE textbook, don't buy this one. You will regret it!

There is nothing much in this text that's closely related to what the author is asking you to consider. His book is based on fluff, and lacks the important stuff; just a bunch of snippets.

You will get an "F".

This is by far the worst textbook I have ever read, and isn't worth $128 dollars.

Thanks for nothing Roger, but you deserve at least 1 star!

Worthy Tome
This is a good book. I have several editions of this book, including a very early one. In my view, in looking for a thorough perspective of software engineering, there are two major routes: McConnell/Weigers series or one of the comprehensive volumes by Pressman or Sommerville. McConnell's books (Code Complete, Rapid Software Development, and Software Estimation) and Weigers (Software Requirements) are each highly detailed. Hence, four-plus books. Pressman encapsulates (sic) the whole shebang into one big comprehensive volume. Not as detailed as those Microsoft Press authors, but that's not a drawback. If you've been practicing for a long time and you're the project manager, sometimes a substantive overview is what you need, not minute details. You're not living in the deep details anyway, your engineers are. Plus, the coverage of the more advanced development technologies, like formal methods, are very good and not included in the Microsoft Press books. Bottom line: if you're a technology director or project manager and want the big picture (in one place), get Pressman. If you're a systems analyst or software engineer and want the larger view, get McConnell and Weigers. (I have not read the Sommerville text, but from the table of contents there's a chapter on security which the other books only cover lightly.)