Software Engineerng Standards: A User's Road Map / Edition 1

by James W. Moore

Overview

Software Engineering Standards: A User's Road Map describes the scope, roles, uses, and development trends of the most widely used software engineering standards. The book concentrates on important software engineering activities-quality and project management, system engineering, dependability, and safety. The analysis and regrouping of the standard collections exposes you to key relationships between standards. James Moore provides valuable insights that allow you to select standards to fill your specific needs with precision.

The book presents two types of diagrams that will guide you in designating and selecting the standards that meet your specific goals. The first is a layered view of standards that illustrates the internal relationships among standards within a collection. The road map, the second type, illustrates the external relationships among standards in same or different collections. By using the road map diagrams each chapter begins at a different starting point and leads you toward the selection of the software engineering standards that achieve your goals.

The book will appeal to software engineering standards users including senior technical professionals or managers with a background in software development. Standards-writers or professionals working on new or revised software engineering standards will find the book useful as well.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780818680083
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	12/11/1997
Series:	Practitioners , #39
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.04(w) x 9.09(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

JAMES W. MOORE is a thirty-five-year veteran of software engineering and a fifteen-year veteran of software engineering standardization. With degrees from the University of North Carolina and Syracuse, he has worked in both the commercial and defense sectors for IBM and, now, The MITRE Corporation. Currently he serves as the Vice President for Electronic Products and Services of the IEEE Computer Society and as the liaison between ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 and the IEEE Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee, the world's two largest providers of software and systems engineering standards. He is an Executive Editor of the IEEE Computer Society's Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge and a member of the Editorial Board of the recent revision of the Encyclopedia of Software Engineering.

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Table of Contents

Introduction.

Software Engineering.

Software Engineering Standards.

Using This Book.

Ways to View Relationships of Standards.

US Standards Organizations.

International Standards Organizations.

Context of Software Engineering: Computer Science.

Context of Software Engineering: Quality Management.

Context of Software Engineering: Project Management.

Context of Software Engineering: Systems Engineering.

Context of Software Engineering: Dependability.

Context of Software Engineering: Safety.

Objects of Software Engineering: Resources.

Objects of Software Engineering: Products.

Context of Software Engineering: Processes.

Context of Software Engineering: Customers.

Important Alternatives.

Catalog of Software Engineering Standards.

Where to Purchase Standards.

Glossary.

References.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

Describes the scope, roles, uses, and development trends of the most widely used software engineering standards, and presents two types of diagrams as guides for designating and selecting standards to meet specific goals. The first is a layered view of standards that illustrates the internal relationships among standards within a collection. The second type illustrates external relationships among standards in same or different collections. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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