The book begins with concepts of data and object. This helps in exploring the rationale that guide high level programming language (HLL) design and object oriented frameworks. Once past this post, the book moves on to expand on software design concerns. The book emphasizes the centrality of Parnas's separation of concerns in evolving software designs and architecture. The book extensively explores modelling frameworks such as Unified Modelling Language (UML) and Petri net based methods. Next, the book covers architectural principles and software engineering practices such as Agile – emphasizing software testing during development. It winds up with case studies demonstrating how systems evolve from basic concepts to final products for quality software designs.
TARGET AUDIENCE
• Undergraduate/postgraduate students of Computer Science and Engineering, and Information Technology
• Postgraduate students of Software Engineering/Software Systems
PRAMOD CHANDRA P. BHATT, Ph.D., has been a consultant to several companies (ABB, Accenture, C-DOT, ECIL, IBM, IPinfusion, Philips, Polaris systems, Satyam, Sharp, Softjin and Virident systems) and Advisor to the India Semiconductor Association. He taught at IIT Kanpur (1965-1969), IIT Delhi from 1969 to 1996 and was Head of Computer Science and Engineering Department from 1983 to 1988. Later, he served as a senior Professor at Indian Institute of Information Technology (2001-2004) and as adjunct professor at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2004-2008). He also taught at universities in Europe, Canada and Japan. He was at Dortmund University as Konrad Zuse fellow (1991-92), and taught at Paderborn (1996-1997) in Germany, Ottawa (1983) and McGill (1993) universities in Canada and Kochi University of Technology in Japan (1996-2000).
IIT Delhi recognized his services by giving him Distinguished Service Award and Mentor Award in 2011. He also received KnowDis award of excellence (2019) for a life time of contributions to teaching and research in computer science.