Software Engineering: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition

Developing software today often involves working on programs that are very large, as a member of a team that will most likely collaborate with other individuals in other disciplines and other teams, and which may interact over several years. Learning the principles and practice of software engineering is as much about understanding this context as it is about specific tools and

techniques.

Software Engineering: Principles and Practice reaches beyond a superficial survey of the discipline, offering the opportunity to weigh up decisions that have to be made in practice. The book has been updated to cover the latest developments such as UML and Software Architecture. Van Vliet informs his reader from a wealth of resources and draws out several important themes:

* that everthing changes and that change is an essential feature of the field

* that human and social aspects are central even in topic areas that sound technical

* that one cannot limit discussion to todays well-established practices but must always look ahead

* that we can learn valuable lessons from the short history of this subject on why techniques or technologies didn't work and why there are no silver bullets

Written for use on a wide variety of software engineering courses and modules, the book is also for people actively involved in software development and maintenance - programmers, analysts, project managers - who want to keep abreast of the problems incurred by large-scale software development, and what solutions have been proposed.

Web support includes:

A· Instructors Manual

A· Examples

A· Interactive Projects

A· Hypertext and CASE Tools

A· Links to related Web resources

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Software Engineering: Principles and Practice challenges the reader to appreciate the issues, design trade-offs and teamwork required for successful software development. The second edition has been brought fully up-to-date, with complete coverage of all aspects of the software lifecycle and a strong focus on the management skills needed to carry out software projects on time and within budget.

Highlights of the second edition include:

* An extended chapter on requirements engineeering and elicitation. * New chapters on software architecture and object-orientated analysis and design. * A focus chapter on user interface design. A companion website with additional resources for students and instructors can be found at: www.wiley.co.uk/vanvliet

Written to support both introductory and advanced software engineering courses, the book will also be invaluable for people actively involved in software development and maintenance — programmers, analysts, project managers — who want an accessabile account of the problems incurred by large-scale software development and what solutions have been proposed.

HANS VAN VLIET has been Professor of Software Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, since 1987. "...novices and those who simply feel unclear about the big picture in software engineering should definitely put an order in for this book straight away"
--Application Development Adviser, December 2000

"interesting and well-written book .....The book is a good candidate for a software engineering course text."
--Computing Reviews, January 2001

John Wiley & Sons 20000926 2000 01 000 01 241.5 mm 02 192.5 mm 03 46.2 mm 08 52 oz John Wiley & Sons IP 8 01 P 75.00 047197546X 03 047197546X BC Mechanical Vibrations Theory and Application to Structural Dynamics 1 A01 M. GTradin GTradin, M. M. GTradin 2 A01 D. Rixen Rixen, D. D. Rixen 2 eng 444 TEC006000 2.3 01 This comprehensive work contains innovative material not often found in previous textbooks such as vibrations induced by non-zero initial conditions for systems with stable equilibrium and vibrations generated by conservative rotating systems. Also discusses characteristic phase-lag theory. 04 02 List of Figures.

List of Tables.

Preface.

Introduction.

Analytical Dynamics of Discrete Systems.

Undamped Vibrations of n-Degree-of-Freedom Systems.

Damped Vibrations of n-Degree-of-Freedom Systems.

Continuous Systems.

Approximation of Continuous Systems by Displacement Methods.

Solution Methods for the Eigenvalue Problem.

Direct Time-Integration Methods.

Index.