Software Engineering Best Practices: Lessons from Successful Projects in the Top Companies |
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| Capers Jones |
| November 2009, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, Hardcover, 608 pages, ISBN 007162161X
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Proven techniques for software development success In this practical guide, software-quality guru Capers Jones reveals best practices for ensuring software development success by illustrating the engineering methods used by the most successful large software projects at leading companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Sony, and EDS. Software Engineering Best Practices covers estimating and planning; requirements analysis; change control; quality control; progress and cost tracking; and maintenance and support after delivery. Agile development, extreme programming, joint application design (JAD), six-sigma for software, and other methods are discussed.
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Chapter 1. Introduction to Software Engineering
Chapter 2. The History of Software Engineering 1946 to 2009
chapter 3. Types of Software Engineering by Industry
Chapter 4 Types of Software Engineering by size of Application
Chapter 5. Software engineering by activity
Chapter 6. Successful software engineering
Chapter 7. Successful software engineering by application nature
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| Capers Jones was the founder and chairman of Software Productivity Research (SPR) where he retains the title of Chief Scientist Emeritus. He is the author of Estimating Software Costs, Second Edition and Applied Software Measurement.
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