Software engineering: principles and practice

Computer, 2000

International Journal of Advanced Research (IJAR), 2019

IFIP advances in information and communication technology, 2020

A survey of fundamental software engineering concepts, and their evolution since the time of IFIP's creation in 1960.

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Advances in Software Engineering, 2008

The nature of software engineering is discussed with particular reference to softwareintensive application systems-those whose fundamental purpose is to bring about desired effects in a physical and human problem world by interaction with a programmed machine. Such systems bring together a problem world-which is typically composed of heterogeneous domains, most of which are non-formal-and the formal or semi-formal domain of the machine. A clean engineering separation of the two is rarely, if ever, possible; and attempts to treat the application problem world as an extension of the formal machine are obstructed by its non-formal nature. Software engineers have much to learn from the structure and practices of the established branches of engineering. We must learn from their treatment of formal analysis and reasoning, from their practice of intense specialisation, from their attention to particular instances no less than to general concerns, and-above all-from their reliance on normal artifact design and on normal design disciplines: both are the golden fruit of specialisation.

Václav.Rajlich is professor and former chair of computer science at Wayne State University. Before that, he taught at the University of Michigan and worked at the Research Institute for Mathematical Machines in Prague, Czech Republic. He received a PhD in mathematics from Case Western Reserve University and has been practicing and teaching software engineering since 1975. His research centers on software evolution and comprehension. He has published approximately 90 refereed papers in journals and conferences, was a keynote speaker at five conferences, has graduated 12 PhDs, and has supervised approximately 40 MS student theses. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution. He is also the founder and permanent steering committee member of the IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) and was a program chair, general chair, and steering committee chair of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM).

Communications in computer and information science, 2011

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