Software engg by roger pressman

Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. A poor textbook for a murky field of study. Sadly, software engineering is a big grab bag of topics necessarily focuses on how high ceremony, high discipline projects work. Real projects almost never see the kinds of specialization and formalism described in a software engineering class, except for big ticket, high cost, cannot fail, bureaucratic projects.

Unfortunately, those projects have very little in common with each other, and even less in common with everyday projects, especially those usi A poor textbook for a murky field of study. Unfortunately, those projects have very little in common with each other, and even less in common with everyday projects, especially those using any of a number of agile methods.

Yet the text paints everything with a broad brush, giving the impression that every project should have a staff of 20 dotting i's and crossing t's, while simultaneously giving the impression that you can choose any of a, b, c, The text reads like an accretion of paragraphs written over several revisions, never edited for readability, consistency, currency, applicability or accuracy, just so long as it has "plenty of examples" and drops enough references to notable names, papers and approaches to appear comprehensive.

Without ever vetting that the tools, techniques and examples references are in any way actually relevant or in use. Hardly a practitioner's approach to software engineering. The organization of this textbook is terrible.

Reading and incorporating the facts presented in this book is similar to having a conversation with a drunk person trying to give advice. This is probably the worst textbook I've ever been assigned to read. The book does contain good information, but the presentation is completely dreadful. Beyond the dubious format, the anecdotal examples presented in the form of a play are worthless. They seem to only serve as filler in this nearly page long The organization of this textbook is terrible.

They seem to only serve as filler in this nearly page long book. One can only assume these mini-plays were added in an attempt to create a market for new editions to be sold. We can't have students buying too many used textbooks, now can we? I am eagerly anticipating the completion of this course. The textbook has made this one of the worst courses in my academic experience.

View 2 comments. This was a pretty comprehensive if over-wordy book back when I was in university. It tries to highlight the current best practices of software development methodology. Unfortunately, it probably doesn't highlight the really up-to-date stuff.

Even back then it was more focused on structured design rather than object-oriented best practices, such as doing white box testing and data flow diagrams. There are some gems in there, like the discussions on metrics and formal methods, but the writing is This was a pretty comprehensive if over-wordy book back when I was in university.

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