A Discipline for Software Engineering (Sei Series in Software Engineering) - Hardcover

Humphrey, Watts S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201546108 ISBN 13: 9780201546101

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 1994

Synopsis

This book from Watts Humphrey broadens his disciplined approach to software engineering. In his earlier book, Managing the Software Process, Humphrey developed concrete methods for managing software development and maintenance. These methods, now commonly practiced, provide programmers and managers specific steps for evaluating and improving their software capabilities. In this book, he scales down those methods to a personal level, helping software practitioners develop the skills and habits they need to plan, track, and analyze large and complex projects more carefully and successfully.

About this title

About the Author

Known as “the father of software quality,” Watts S. Humphrey is the author of numerous influential books on the software-development process and software process improvement. Humphrey is a fellow of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University, where he founded the Software Process Program and provided the vision and early leadership for the original Capability Maturity Model (CMM). He also is the creator of the Personal Software Process (PSP) and Team Software Process (TSP). Recently, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology―the highest honor given by the president of the United States to America's leading innovators.

From the Back Cover

This new work from Watts Humphrey lays the foundation for a disciplined approach to software engineering. In his previous book, Humphrey developed methods for managing an organization's software process. These methods, now commonly practiced in industry, provide to programmers and managers specific steps they can take to evaluate and to improve their software development and software maintenance capabilities. In Humphrey's new book, he scales those methods down to a more personal level, helping software engineers working on relatively small-scale programs to develop the skills and the habits they will need later in their professional life to plan, track, and analyze large and complex software projects more carefully and more successfully.

Clear examples and samples drawn from industry enhance the practical focus of the book. Exercises in the form of projects give readers the opportunity to practice process management as they learn it, a comprehensive instructor's set includes notes on teaching the course, overhead masters, modifiable assignment kits in Word, and a statistical support package in the form of Excel spreadsheets for the analysis of individual and class data.

Features

• Presents concepts and methods for a disciplined software engineering process
• Scales down industrial practices for planning, tracking, analysis, and defect management to for the needs of small-scale program development
• Shows how small project disciplines provide a solid base for larger projects

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201546108
• ISBN 13: 9780201546101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 816