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Non-Functional Requirements In Software Engineering

by Brian A. Nixon, Eric Yu, John Mylopoulos e Lawrence Chung

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 Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering presents a systematic and pragmatic approach to `building quality into'' software systems. Systems must exhibit software quality attributes, such as accuracy, performance, security and modifiability. However, such non-functional requirements (NFRs) are difficult to address in many projects, even though there are many techniques to meet functional requirements in order to provide desired functionality. This is particularly true since the NFRs for each system typically interact with each other, have a broad impact on the system and may be subjective. To enable developers to systematically deal with a system''s diverse NFRs, this book presents the NFR Framework. Structured graphical facilities are offered for stating NFRs and managing them by refining and inter-relating NFRs, justifying decisions, and determining their impact. Since NFRs might not be absolutely achieved, they may simply be satisfied sufficiently (`satisficed''). To reflect this, NFRs are represented as `softgoals'', whose interdependencies, such as tradeoffs and synergy, are captured in graphs. The impact of decisions is qualitatively propagated through the graph to determine how well a chosen target system satisfices its NFRs. Throughout development, developers direct the process, using their expertise while being aided by catalogues of knowledge about NFRs, development techniques and tradeoffs, which can all be explored, reused and customized. Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering demonstrates the applicability of the NFR Framework to a variety of NFRs, domains, system characteristics and application areas. This will help readers apply the Framework to NFRs and domains of particular interest to them. Detailed treatments of particular NFRs - accuracy, security and performance requirements - along with treatments of NFRs for information systems are presented as specializations of the NFRFramework. Case studies of NFRs for a variety of information systems include credit card and administrative systems. The use of the Framework for particular application areas is illustrated for software architecture as well as enterprise modelling. Feedback from domain experts in industry and government provides an initial evaluation of the Framework and some case studies. Drawing on research results from several theses and refereed papers, this book''s presentation, terminology and graphical notation have been integrated and illustrated with many figures. Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering is an excellent resource for software engineering practitioners, researchers and students.
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Multimedia Software Engineering

by Shi-Kuo Chang

171,59€ + 10% CARD

 Multimedia has two fundamental characteristics that can be expressed by the following formula: Multimedia = Multiple Media + Hypermedia. How can software engineering take advantage of these two characteristics? Will these two characteristics pose problems in multimedia systems design? These are some of the issues to be explored in this book. The first two chapters will be of interest to managers, software engineers, programmers, and people interested in gaining an overall understanding of multimedia software engineering. The next six chapters present multimedia software engineering according to the conceptual framework introduced in Chapter One. This is of particular use to practitioners, system developers, multimedia application designers, programmers, and people interested in prototyping multimedia applications. The next three chapters are more research-oriented and are mainly intended for researchers working on the specification, modeling, and analysis of distributed multimedia systems, but will also be relevant to scientists, researchers, and software engineers interested in the systems and theoretical aspects of multimedia software engineering. Multimedia Software Engineering can be used as a textbook in a graduate course on multimedia software engineering or in an undergraduate course on software design where the emphasis is on multimedia applications. It is especially suitable for a project-oriented course.
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Formal Specification Techniques For Engineering Modular C Programs

by Tan Yang Meng

171,59€ + 10% CARD

 Software is difficult to develop, maintain, and reuse. Two factors that contribute to this difficulty are the lack of modular design and good program documentation. The first makes software changes more difficult to implement. The second makes programs more difficult to understand and to maintain. Formal Specification Techniques for Engineering Modular C Programs describes a novel approach to promoting program modularity. The book presents a formal specification language that promotes software modularity through the use of abstract data types, even though the underlying programming language may not have such support. This language is structured to allow useful information to be extracted from a specification, which is then used to perform consistency checks between the specification and its implementation. Formal Specification Techniques for Engineering Modular C Programs also describes a specification-driven, software re-engineering process model for improving existing programs. The aim of this process is to make existing programs easier to maintain and reuse while keeping their essential functionalities unchanged. Audience: Suitable as a secondary text for graduate level courses in software engineering, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.
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Tools And Environments For Parallel And Distributed Systems

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 Developing correct and efficient software is far more complex for parallel and distributed systems than it is for sequential processors. Some of the reasons for this added complexity are: the lack of a universally acceptable parallel and distributed programming paradigm, the criticality of achieving high performance, and the difficulty of writing correct parallel and distributed programs. These factors collectively influence the current status of parallel and distributed software development tools efforts. Tools and Environments for Parallel and Distributed Systems addresses the above issues by describing working tools and environments, and gives a solid overview of some of the fundamental research being done worldwide. Topics covered in this collection are: mainstream program development tools, performance prediction tools and studies; debugging tools and research; and nontraditional tools. Audience: Suitable as a secondary text for graduate level courses in software engineering and parallel and distributed systems, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.
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Software Defect And Operational Profile Modeling

by Kai-Yuan Cai

237,84€ + 10% CARD

 also in: THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES ON ASIAN STUDIES IN COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Volume 1
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Constraint-Based Design Recovery For Software Reengineering - Theory And Experiments

by Alexander E. Quilici, Qiang Yang e Steven G. Woods

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 The great challenge of reverse engineering is recovering design information from legacy code: the concept recovery problem. This monograph describes our research effort in attacking this problem. It discusses our theory of how a constraint-based approach to program plan recognition can efficiently extract design concepts from source code, and it details experiments in concept recovery that support our claims of scalability. Importantly, we present our models and experiments in sufficient detail so that they can be easily replicated. This book is intended for researchers or software developers concerned with reverse engineering or reengineering legacy systems. However, it may also interest those researchers who are interested using plan recognition techniques or constraint-based reasoning. We expect the reader to have a reasonable computer science background (i.e., familiarity with the basics of programming and algorithm analysis), but we do not require familiarity with the fields of reverse engineering or artificial intelligence (AI). To this end, we carefully explain all the AI techniques we use. This book is designed as a reference for advanced undergraduate or graduate seminar courses in software engineering, reverse engineering, or reengineering. It can also serve as a supplementary textbook for software engineering-related courses, such as those on program understanding or design recovery, for AI-related courses, such as those on plan recognition or constraint satisfaction, and for courses that cover both topics, such as those on AI applications to software engineering. ORGANIZATION The book comprises eight chapters.
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Experimentation In Software Engineering - An Introduction

by Anders Wesslen, Bjorn Regnell, Claes Wohlin, Magnus C. Ohlsson, Martin Host e Per Runeson

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Provides guidelines for performing experiments evaluating methods, techniques and tools in software engineering. It focuses on the steps that we go through to perform experiments and quasi-experiments. It is suitable for graduate courses, and for researchers and practitioners interested in an empirical approach to software engineering.
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Identifying Relevant Information For Testing Technique Selection - An Instantiated Characterization Schema

by Natalia Juristo, Sira Vegas e Victor R. Basili

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 Engineering tasks are supposed to achieve defined goals under certain project constraints. Especially in the area of testing a project planner is confronted with an abundance of testing techniques, but very little knowledge regarding their effects under varying project conditions.
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Process Improvement In Practice - A Handbook For It Companies

by Nils Brede Moe, Tore Dyba e Torgeir Dingsoyr

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 Faster, better and cheaper are challenges that IT companies face every day. A solution for meeting these challenges is to share knowledge and experience. This book tackles the problems involved in launching these solutions. It is designed for small IT companies who wish to start with systematic improvement.
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Software Process Modeling

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 Discusses relevant results in software process modeling. This title is suitable for a professional audience of researchers and practitioners in industry, and graduate-level students.
Experimentation In Software Engineering - An Introduction

by Anders Wesslen, Bjorn Regnell, Claes Wohlin, Magnus C. Ohlsson, Martin Host e Per Runeson

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 Provides guidelines for performing experiments evaluating methods, techniques and tools in software engineering. It focuses on the steps that we go through to perform experiments and quasi-experiments. It is suitable for graduate courses, and for researchers and practitioners interested in an empirical approach to software engineering.

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