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Fundamentals of Software Engineering (2nd Edition)

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I bought my first copy of this text in 1992 and it has been my constant companion and mentor ever since. From my early Pascal days in college to J2EE development in present times, I have always found the authors' treatment of the discipline of software engineering to be concise, accurate and relevant to the issues at hand. It is one of those books that code shovellers hate...an uncompromising publication that addresses serious process issues such as requirements specification, rigour, interface design and modularity, and robustness. These matters just refuse to go away, and the authors of this book know it. This book is timeless.

This book is an introduction to software engineering. It's an excellent book because it's a trade off between many things:

being comprehensive
being up to date
giving you the correct background and fundamental principles, on which every new trend is based
being short enough so students don't complain too much .


If you are a student you'll probably like it. If you are a professional that wants to self-learn software engineering, I would suggest instead "software engineering" of Ian Sommerville, ISBN 0137035152, that is constantly updated with the new trends. Ghezzi's book tends to give a more traditional view of the field.
The informations you receive from Ghezzi's book will probably be valid until the next decade; however, it's not a book for "a la mode" guys who like to follow the trends of the moment.

Simply the best textbook on software engineering. Concise content and extensive coverage of most conventional SE topics. For students and practicioners who are interested in learning more than drawing simplistic diagrams.

thank you for having books...sometimes the college my son goes to doesn't get in enough textbooks for courses and Amazon.com is my family's way of assuring that he has a textbook.

This book is in overall close to very good. Some confusingthings are the unclear differences of USE-relationship, and otherrelationships. I probably include more comments in the future. END