SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: A CONCISE STUDY

KELKAR, S. A.

Sept 2007 · PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

About this eBook

A decade ago nobody could have imagined the crucial role that software would play in our everyday life. The artificial boundaries between hardware, software, telecommunication, and many other disciplines are getting blurred very rapidly.

This book presents the essentials of theory and practice of software engineering in an abstracted form. Presenting the information based on software development life cycle, the text guides the students through all the stages of software production—Requirements, Designing, Construction, Testing and Maintenance.

Key Features :

Emphasizes on non-coding areas

Includes appendices on “need to know” basis

Makes the learning easier as organized by software development life cycle

This text is well suited for academic courses on Software Engineering or for conducting training programmes for software professionals. This book will be equally useful to the instructors of software engineering as well as busy professionals who wish to grasp the essentials of software engineering without attending a formal instructional course.

About the author

S.A. KELKAR, Ph.D. (Michigan, USA), is an Adjunct Professor at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai. Earlier, he was an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai. At present he also works as a Professor of Computer Engineering, at KKWIER, Nashik. He has over 40 years of teaching experience in the field of software technology, information systems, and research methodology. Earlier he taught as a full timer at IITB, Mumbai, NIBM, Mumbai, and NITIE, Mumbai. His industry experience comes from TCS, Aptech, and Voltas. He has also been a visiting faculty for thirty years for several programs conducted by Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.