Schaum's Outline of Software Engineering

by David Gustafson

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071406208
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	05/22/2002
Series:	Schaum's Outline Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	8 MB

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1	The Software Life Cycle	1
1.1	Introduction	1
1.2	Software Life Cycle Models	3
Chapter 2	Software Process and Other Models	7
2.1	The Software Process Model	7
2.2	Data Flow Diagrams	9
2.3	Petri Net Models	10
2.4	Object Models	11
2.5	Use Case Diagrams	14
2.6	Scenarios	15
2.7	Sequence Diagrams	15
2.8	Hierarchy Diagrams	16
2.9	Control Flow Graphs	16
2.10	State Diagrams	17
2.11	Lattice Models	19
Chapter 3	Software Project Management	30
3.1	Introduction	30
3.2	Management Approaches	30
3.3	Team Approaches	31
3.4	Critical Practices	32
3.5	Capability Maturity Model	33
3.6	Personal Software Process	34
3.7	Earned Value Analysis	35
3.8	Error Tracking	36
3.9	Postmortem Reviews	37
Chapter 4	Software Project Planning	47
4.1	Project Planning	47
4.2	WBS--Work Breakdown Structure	47
4.3	PERT--Program Evaluation and Review Technique	50
4.4	Software Cost Estimation	54
Chapter 5	Software Metrics	72
5.1	Introduction	72
5.2	Software Measurement Theory	73
5.3	Product Metrics	76
5.4	Process Metrics	83
5.5	The GQM Approach	83
Chapter 6	Risk Analysis and Management	91
6.1	Introduction	91
6.2	Risk Identification	91
6.3	Risk Estimation	92
6.4	Risk Exposure	92
6.5	Risk Mitigation	94
6.6	Risk Management Plans	94
Chapter 7	Software Quality Assurance	99
7.1	Introduction	99
7.2	Formal Inspections and Technical Reviews	99
7.3	Software Reliability	101
7.4	Statistical Quality Assurance	102
Chapter 8	Requirements	112
8.1	Introduction	112
8.2	Object Model	112
8.3	Data Flow Modeling	113
8.4	Behavioral Modeling	114
8.5	Data Dictionary	116
8.6	System Diagrams	117
8.7	IEEE Standard for Software Requirements Specification	118
Chapter 9	Software Design	127
9.1	Introduction	127
9.2	Phases of the Design Process	128
9.3	Design Concepts	130
9.4	Measuring Cohesion	132
9.5	Measuring Coupling	135
9.6	Requirements Traceability	136
Chapter 10	Software Testing	145
10.1	Introduction	145
10.2	Software Testing Fundamentals	145
10.3	Test Coverage Criterion	146
10.4	Data Flow Testing	154
10.5	Random Testing	155
10.6	Boundary Testing	157
Chapter 11	Object-Oriented Development	169
11.1	Introduction	169
11.2	Identifying Objects	171
11.3	Identifying Associations	175
11.4	Identifying Multiplicities	178
Chapter 12	Object-Oriented Metrics	183
12.1	Introduction	183
12.2	Metrics Suite for Object-Oriented Design	184
12.3	The MOOD Metrics	189
Chapter 13	Object-Oriented Testing	199
13.1	Introduction	199
13.2	MM Testing	200
13.3	Function Pair Coverage	201
Chapter 14	Formal Notations	208
14.1	Introduction	208
14.2	Formal Specifications	208
14.3	Object Constraint Language (OCL)	210
	Index	219