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  • Hardcover: 880 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education; 6 edition (1 May 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 007301933X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0073019338
  • Product Dimensions: 24 x 19 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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The sixth edition continues to lead the way in software engineering. A new Part 4 on Web Engineering presents a complete engineering approach for the analysis, design, and testing of Web Applications, increasingly important for today's students. Additionally, the UML coverage has been enhanced and signficantly increased in this new edition.

The pedagogy has also been improved in the new edition to include sidebars. They provide information on relevant software tools, specific work flow for specific kinds of projects, and additional information on various topics. Additionally, Pressman provides a running case study called "Safe Home" throughout the book, which provides the application of software engineering to an industry project.

The ancillary material for the book includes an expansion of the case study, which illustrates it with UML diagrams. The On-Line Learning Center includes resources for both instructors and students such as checklists, 700 categorized web references, Powerpoints, a test bank, and a software engineering library-containing over 500 software engineering papers.

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the latest versions of Java and UML
increased coverage of distributed systems, including security and e-commerce
examination of the web and its implications for software engineering
New case studies and examples which demonstrate how theory is put into practice
The use of Java and UML --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Hard work for non-tekkies, but worth the effort, 18 April 2002
I had been working in the software industry for a few years as a usability consultant on web sites, and also as a producer and project manager. I have never had any formal IT training, but I’ve picked stuff up along the way. I was keen to understand the best practices and different options in software engineering so that I, as a “non-technical” person, could understand and questions the decisions my technical colleagues were making. I don’t want to seem as though I picking on developers, but I have seen many times that developers use a secret language amongst themselves which excludes non-technical people. The frequently ends up with software being developed that does not fit the non-technical people’s requirement. Although I found this book very hard to read, I have learnt an enormous amount from it. I am now able to help steer the software engineering process in way that will ensure that the business requirements are achieved.

I wish I had read this book earlier. I have seen projects spiral out of control because they failed to observe elementary software best practises described in chapters 1 and 2 of this book.

Thanks to this book, I am now a “slightly technical” person who understands most of what my developers are talking about, for which I am grateful. I found the book very hard work, but I imagine that was so because I am most likely not the intended audience. I would recommend the book to colleagues who are sick of being unable to question or understand their developers, and want to understand why their software projects keep turning into disasters.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Half empty or half full?, 8 Mar 1998
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This book teachs you how to write hundreds of pages of documentation before writing even a single line of code.
If you work for the government or a bureaucratic large company, you may get a promotion for the documentation. If you work for an effeciency oriented small company, you will get fired.
My prediction is: any company that fully implements the author's method of project management will lose in competition and have to lay off half of its programers within 5 years. This was what happened to IBM 5 years ago and may soon happen to Motorola.
As a consultant, the author knows very well how to make a simple problem very difficult to be understood: unnecessary classifications, unnecessary introduction of not well defined abstract new terminologies and so on.
Just look at a couple of examples:
A control is in fact just a binary (true of false) data. Seperating it from other data doubles the pages. A data transaction differs very little from a data transform, but seperating them doubles the pages again.
A good point is: if you don't know how to communicate to your customer, the author teachs you how:
You may send him a short memo, or a report, or a request, or a documentation, ...
You may have an informal chat with him, or you may have a formal meeting with him, ...
You may send him an e-mail, or you may fax him, or you may have a video-conference with him, or you may simply give him a phone call, ...
(you may leave him a message in case he's not in, this is all I can think of to append to the author's list.)
All these methods are well categorized in the book. Hope all readers can benifit from the instruction.
Xiaolong Wu
Loyola Univ. (Chicago)
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good! Just a little hard to wade through!, 12 Oct 2001
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Having used this book as the main text for a final year undergrad. course, i have to say it's pretty good! Very comprehensive, but does waffle on in places; you will most definitely find yourself banging your head against the wall after failing to comprehend the chapter you have just read for the 7th time! Still, very good as a reference. Recommended !
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3.0 out of 5 stars An interesting overview
About the book of Pressman,
An interesting book that covers all subjects of the concept Software Engineering, in a very integrated way for the reader to apprehend. Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2006 by Andreas

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent companion to software project managers
First a word of caution: this is not the right book if you are looking for a project management or software engineering text book. Read more
Published on 8 Jun 2001

2.0 out of 5 stars It's good, but it's not that good.
A comprehensive book that covers a lot of fields in this diverse subject. It is well structured to guide you from newbie to guru, or at least it would if it was well written. Read more
Published on 27 Mar 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for beginners and advanced users
A brilliant book. Well worth buying if you are considering a future in this field. Goes through at a nice pace. It's more of a bible than a book. Well worth buying.
Published on 26 Sep 2000 by Mr J Jasinski

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent as a textbook
this is an excellent textbook for students who only want to buy one work on the subject the latest edition is pretty up to date pressman's books don't 'age' very reasdily since he... Read more
Published on 14 Feb 2000 by William S. Torbitt

3.0 out of 5 stars A good book but still need to be improved
Pressman's book has always been one of the best classical books in software engineering. I think it is essential to have this book in the shelf of any software developer... Read more
Published on 3 Sep 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars Good sound reading, if a little hard to swallow
Pressman's book is a very good resource for budding software engineers, but it is not a book you can just pick up and start reading. Read more
Published on 25 Jan 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars An indispensable reference.
An industry standard that no software professional can claim to be well-read without.

I was pleased to see (finally) the addition of two chapters on Formal Methods in... Read more

Published on 2 Nov 1998

3.0 out of 5 stars Good content, delivery is difficult to comprehend.
I have worked in system development and maintenance for over 18 years. In that time I have performed programmer, analyst and/or leadership roles on a variety of software... Read more
Published on 25 Jun 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars 3rd edition was excellent, but what happened to the price??
Pressman gives an excellent encyclopedic coverage of all the essentials of Software Engineering. I would say every s/w company should have a couple of copies for reference, and... Read more
Published on 5 Jun 1997

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