Software Engineering Foundations: A Software Science Perspective

Yingxu Wang

Aug 2007 · CRC Press

About this ebook

A groundbreaking book in this field, Software Engineering Foundations: A Software Science Perspective integrates the latest research, methodologies, and their applications into a unified theoretical framework. Based on the author's 30 years of experience, it examines a wide range of underlying theories from philosophy, cognitive informatics, denota

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After going through the book I was mostly questioning how practical the application of most of the content was. Being a software engineer I can honestly say those two words in the title are misplaced as the content of the book does not support the software engineering industry. As many have stated, many formal mathematical models of software sound great, but are very difficult to validate their correctness since glaring flaws can still be seen in them. It is as easy if not easier to make them in comparison to when you are writing them into code. I also question the author for the validity of the content of the book, because referencing yourself repeatedly does not make you sound any more credible.

Since its inception -- I suppose in the sense of "Software Science", 40years or so ago and, more dramatically, in the past decade -- Software Science has come to occupy a special and rightly revered place, though not widely practiced; the reason being that mathematically it looks, but in fact is 'not', daunting.