For a quarter century, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach has been the best-selling guide to software engineering for students and industry professionals alike.
In its sixth edition, the book has been completely restructured and redesigned, undergoing a substantial content update that addresses every important topic in what many have called "the engineering discipline of the 21st century." Throughout the book, the addition of unique sidebars presents an entertaining and informative project scenario, as well as many complementary software engineering topics.
The content of the sixth edition has been compartmentalized to further improve the ease of using the book in the classroom and as a self-study guide:
Part 1, The Software Process, presents both prescriptive and agile process models. Part 2, Software Engineering Practice, presents modern analysis, design, and testing methods with a new emphasis on UML-based modeling.