Replacement for Ian Sommerville's "Software Engineering"

Replacement for Ian Sommerville's "Software Engineering"

[Jacob Sparre Andersen]

I was considering to use Ian Sommerville's "Software Engineering" book
for one of my courses, when I unfortunately found out that two of its
important advantages have been removed in the most recent editions;
Ada has been replaced by Java, and Z has been replaced by UML.

That's _not_ fun.  So which text-books can you suggest as a
replacement?

The goals of the course is to introduce the students to problem
analysis, specification and design.  The book should preferably cover
both centralised and distributed systems.

I prefer to use a book which is has a wider aim than just object
oriented design and programming.  Strong specifications and
standardised languages (such as Ada and Z) are favoured to weak typing
and unstandardised languages.

I liked the 5th edition of "Software Engineering", but it is
apparently not available anymore.

Greetings,

Jacob
-- 
"simply because no one had discovered a cure for the universe as a
 whole - or rather the only one that did exist had been abolished"

Re: Replacement for Ian Sommerville's "Software Engineering"

[Georg Bauhaus]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 16:00 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> I was considering to use Ian Sommerville's "Software Engineering" book

Does it still have the example, quoted by Bertrand Meyer,
that introduces multiple inheritance as a means to make
a CAR-OWNER both a CAR and a PERSON?


-- Georg 

Re: Replacement for Ian Sommerville's "Software Engineering"

[kevin cline]

Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> I was considering to use Ian Sommerville's "Software Engineering" book
> for one of my courses, when I unfortunately found out that two of its
> important advantages have been removed in the most recent editions;
> Ada has been replaced by Java, and Z has been replaced by UML.
>
> That's _not_ fun.  So which text-books can you suggest as a
> replacement?

Extreme Programming Explained.

Re: Replacement for Ian Sommerville's "Software Engineering"

[adaworks]

"kevin cline" <kevin.cline@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1155668515.864500.264190@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
> Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
>> I was considering to use Ian Sommerville's "Software Engineering" book
>> for one of my courses, when I unfortunately found out that two of its
>> important advantages have been removed in the most recent editions;
>> Ada has been replaced by Java, and Z has been replaced by UML.
>>
>> That's _not_ fun.  So which text-books can you suggest as a
>> replacement?
>
> Extreme Programming Explained.
>
You forgot the smiley to emphasize that you were joking.

Re: Replacement for Ian Sommerville's "Software Engineering"

[Peter Hermann]

Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk> wrote:
> I was considering to use Ian Sommerville's "Software Engineering" book
> for one of my courses, when I unfortunately found out that two of its
> important advantages have been removed in the most recent editions;
> Ada has been replaced by Java, and Z has been replaced by UML.
> 
> That's _not_ fun.  So which text-books can you suggest as a
> replacement?

No, that is not funny.

No  -  that's not a sarcophagus...
( cit. from the film The Thomas Crown Affair 2.ed
                 http://imdb.com/title/tt0155267/ )

I dropped the book from my lectures:
www.ihr.uni-stuttgart.de/fileadmin/user_upload/autoren/ph/dva/dva040.txt

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Re: Replacement for Ian Sommerville's "Software Engineering"

[Jacob Sparre Andersen]

Peter Hermann wrote:

> I dropped the book from my lectures:
> www.ihr.uni-stuttgart.de/fileadmin/user_upload/autoren/ph/dva/dva040.txt

Thanks for the list.

Greetings,

Jacob
-- 
"Never trust a statistic you have not falsified yourself."