Software Engineering: Concepts and Applications

Today’s business scenario requires a lot of attention to the computer software technology. Operational, tactical and strategic managers require complex computing systems to handle decision- making analyses effectively. Software Engineering (SE) concepts help developers and end-users design and implement such complex computing systems. There is a tremendous demand for such effective computing systems in this modern society and this feature, in turn, induces the need for systematic approaches to software development and software maintenance. Software engineering deals with the development of large applications, which concentrates on both technical aspects and managerial issues. Software engineering is a broad spectrum covering various phases such as software project planning, estimation, design, software maintenance, project management, quality management and configuration management and various disciplines such as IEEE in Software engineering, Six Sigma in software engineering, software quality assurance, capability maturity model, ISO standards, software quality models, total quality management and computer-aided software engineering. This volume covers general concepts involved in software development such as planning, estimation, design, maintenance, quality management, configuration management along with their applications.