| Advances in Software Engineering: Comprehension, Evaluation, and Evolution 2002 Edition Contributor(s): Erdogmus, Hakan (Editor), Tanir, Oryal (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0387951091 ISBN-13: 9780387951096 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $61.74 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2001 Annotation: ADVANCES IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING is a comprehensive edited survey thematically organized into four parts: Empirical Studies, Architectural Recovery, Maintainability, and Tool Support. Contributions to the volume derive from significant results and findings of leading researchers, under the mandate of the Consortium for Software Engineering (CSER), a Canadian industry-research initiative. Central themes--the comprehension, evaluation, and evolution of software systems--address the key needs to understand software systems? construction and maintenance, to assess their quality, to adapt them to evolving requirements and technology, to migrate them to new platforms, and to discover new paradigms and build new tools to support these activities. Topics and features: + Includes several case studies and problems based on actual systems used by industrial research partners of CSER + Examines the current challenges facing large-scale and legacy systems, for which substantial investments may be associated with mere maintenance + Describes leading-edge research, providing insight to potential avenues for solving some of the problems facing the software industry + Addresses advanced software engineering topics, such as software migration, code analysis, object-oriented metrics, and automatic architectural clustering. This book provides an essential overview of empirical evolution in the field, from legacy software to modern architectures. It will serve as an excellent resource and reference for software practitioners, engineers and researchers alike and also contains information valuable for project managers and tool developers. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Software Development & Engineering - General |
| Dewey: 005.1 |
| LCCN: 00047091 |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6.24" W x 9.54" (1.94 lbs) 467 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Software engineering is a rapidly growing and changing field. Over the last dec- ade, it has gained significant popularity, and it is now heralded as a discipline of its own. This edited collection presents recent advances in software engineering in the areas of evolution, comprehension, and evaluation. The theme of the book addresses the increasing need to understand and assess software systems in order to measure their quality, maintain them, adapt them to changing requirements and technology, and migrate them to new platforms. This need can be satisfied by studying how software systems are built and maintained, by finding new paradigms, and by building new tools to support the activities involved in devel- oping contemporary software systems. The contributions to the book are from major results and findings of leading researchers, under the mandate of the Consortium for Software Engineering Re- search (CSER). CSER has been in existence since 1996. The five founding in- dustrial and academic partners wanted to create a research environment that would appeal to the applied nature of the industrial partners, as well as to ad- vance the state of the art and develop fresh expertise. The research projects of the Consortium are partially funded by the industrial partners, and partially by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Technical and administrative management of the Consortium is provided by the National Research Council of Canada-specifically by members of the Software Engi- neering Group ofthe Institute for Information Technology. |