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What Every Engineer Should Know about Software Engineering

What Every Engineer Should Know about Software Engineering
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What Every Engineer Should Know about Software Engineering:
by Phillip A. Laplante

  • Answers the most commonly asked questions that engineers have about software engineering
  • Includes a complete sample software requirements specification and a complete software design specification to help you get started developing your own specs
  • Clearly illustrates the key concepts with more than 100 figures and a concise question-and-answer style
  • Completely covers both procedural and object-oriented paradigms, applicable to all modern and legacy systems

    Do you…
  • Use a computer to perform analysis or simulations in your daily work?
  • Write short scripts or record macros to perform repetitive tasks?
  • Need to integrate off-the-shelf software into your systems or require multiple applications to work together?
  • Find yourself spending too much time working the kinks out of your code?
  • Work with software engineers on a regular basis but have difficulty communicating or collaborating?

    If any of these sound familiar, then you may need a quick primer in the principles of software engineering. Nearly every engineer, regardless of field, will need to develop some form of software during their career. Without exposure to the challenges, processes, and limitations of software engineering, developing software can be a burdensome and inefficient chore.

    In What Every Engineer Should Know about Software Engineering, Phillip Laplante introduces the profession of software engineering along with a practical approach to understanding, designing, and building sound software based on solid principles. Using a unique question-and-answer format, this book addresses the issues and misperceptions that engineers need to understand in order to successfully work with software engineers, develop specifications for quality software, and learn the basics of the most common programming languages, development approaches, and paradigms.

    Publisher: CRC Press
    Page Count: 311
    ISBN10: 0849372283
    ISBN13: 9780849372285
    Cover: Paperback
    Media: None
    Pub Date: 05/06/2007