Software Specification and Design : An Engineering Approach

DESCRIPTION

The rigors of Engineering must soon be applied to the software development process, or the complexities of new systems will initiate the collapse of companies who attempt to produce them. Software Specification and Design : An Engineering Approach offers a foundation for rigorously engineered software. It provides a clear vision of what occurs at each stage of development, parsing the stages of specification, design, and coding into compartments that can be more easily analyzed.

Formalizing the concepts of specification traceability witnessed at the software organizations of Rockwell, IBM FSD and NASA, the author proposes a strategy for software development that emphasizes measurement. He promotes the measurement of every aspect of the software environment – from initial testing through test activity and deployment/operation.

This book details the path to effective software and design. It recognizes that each project is different, with its own set of problems, so it does not propose a specific model. Instead, it establishes a foundation for the discipline of software engineering that is both theoretically rigorous and relevant to the real – world engineering environment.

CONTENTS

Preface
Chapter 1 An Overview of the Software Development Process
Chapter 2 Requirements Analysis
Chapter 3 Operational Specification
Chapter 4 Functional Specification : High-Level Design
Chapter 5 Mapping Operations to Functionalities
Chapter 6 Module Specification : Low-Level Design
Chapter 7 Mapping the Operations to Modules
Chapter 8 Choosing the Appropriate Language Metaphor
Chapter 9 Measuring Software Design
Chapter 10 System Architectural Trade-Offs
Chapter 11 The Structure of an Executing Program
Chapter 12 Maintaining the Specifications
Chapter 13 The Software Development Infrastructure
Chapter 14 Specification-Driven Verification and Validation
Chapter 15 Direct Benefits of Specification Traceability
Index

Author

John C. Munson

Published On

2005

Cover Price

$ 91.37

Cover

Hardback

No. of pages

404