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Software Engineering (Practitioners)

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This book accululates the classic works of the accepted authorities in the field of Software Engineering. As a senior consultant for government and industry for software productivity improvement, I continuously refer to and recommend this book to my clients and co-workers. This book should be required reading for every computer science, MIS professional. Thank you for the effort it took to bring this all together.

Well, this work is truly expansive. It covers an analysis of what software engineering is, straight from the horses mouth: Prof. Bauer provides a paper here. Bauer coined the term in the first place, the fact that he contributes here is an indication of how excellent all 45 papers are.

Tom DeMarco and Frederick Brooks' contributions to the Software Project Management topic are essential reading for every project manager. Other notable contributors are Pressman, Boehm and Parnas. This collection guides the professional through development models, requirements specification, coding, testing, maintenance and development technologies, to name a few.

If you have a professional interest in improving the development of software, and avoiding over budget, late and deficient systems, you should start here, and not continue until you've finished reading the book. If you only buy one book on software engineering, make it this one. Warning: this collection is not for beginning students or people with a passing interest, it is written at the graduate student / scientific level.

I ordered this collection after discovering Thayer's "Software Engineering Project Management" collection. I was not disappointed. This is a "must have" for anybody teaching classes in Software Engineering.