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The Road Map to Software Engineering: A Standards-Based Guide organizes relevant IEEE software and systems standards using two frameworks: the SWEBOK Guide’s topical knowledge areas and the widely used IEEE/EIA 12207 standard. This useful guide is endorsed and recommended by the Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society for both practitioners and students…. More >>
The Road Map to Software Engineering: A Standards-Based Guide
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#1 by Scott Duncan on February 2, 2010 - 5:16 am
This is an “authoritative” guide to using IEEE (and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7) standards for implementation of all aspects of software engineering. Its author is among the most knowledgeable people in the world on software and systems engineering standards.
Software and systems engineering standards are a moving target given the large number of organizations involved in developing and attempting to coordinate them. Some of the standards mentioned here have moved on since this book was being written over the past couple of years, but Moore’s approach to identifying the standards and discussing them makes this rather clear. Some books which discuss standards often do not make this clear, giving those less familiar with the standards landscape misimpressions of the status of some standards.
The book is organized in three parts:
The first addresses:
Background (70 pages) — the relationship between software engineering and standards; standards bodies and what they do; the “principles” behind the IEEE Software and Systems Engineering standards collection; how that collection is organized.
A Knowledge-Oriented View (210 pages) — the IEEE’s Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBoK) and how standards fit into that structure.
A Process-Oriented View (78 pages) — the standards viewed using the structure of ISO 12207 and ISO 15288 (software and system lifecycle process standards).
The second is the largest, explaining the standards in some detail along with context from the SWEBoK.
The third part outlines the process structure behind 12207 and 15288, “cross-referencing” several standards already mentioned in the second part.
The first of the two Appendices also summarizes the standards giving their official identification (name and number), date of last revision, general topic, and category (i.e., documentation, measurement, planning, process, terminology, tool, or web application).
If you want a book about standards and how they can be used in a software engineering context, this would be the book to have.
Rating: 5 / 5