Description:

The concepts, trends and practices in different phases of software development have taken sufficient advancement from the traditional ones. With these changes, methods of developing software, system architecture, software design, software coding, software maintenance and software project management have taken new shapes.

Software Engineering discusses the principles, methodologies, trends and practices associated with different phases of software engineering. Starting from the basics, the book progresses slowly to advanced and emerging topics on software project management, process models, developing methodologies, software specification, testing, quality control, deployment, software security, maintenance and software reuse. Case study is a special feature of this book that discusses real life situation of dealing with IT related problems and finding their practical solutions in an easy manner. Elegant and simple style of presentation makes reading of this book a pleasant experience. Students of Computer Science and Engineering, Information Technology and Computer Applications should find this book highly useful. It would also be useful for IT technology professionals who are interested to get acquainted with the latest and the newest technologies.

• Chapter-end exercises at the end of each chapter
• Exclusive Do it Yourself sections in all the chapters
• New Case Studies
•  New topics on Vendor selection and management, Cloud computing development, Open source development, IDE, MIMO technology, and .NET