Software Engineering Foundations: A Software Science Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780849319310 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 1461 str.

Yingxu Wang; Fahui Wang

Opis

A groundbreaking book in this field, Software Engineering Foundations: A Software Science Perspective integrates the latest research, methodologies, and their applications into a unified theoretical framework. Based on the author's 30 years of experience, it examines a wide range of underlying theories from philosophy, cognitive informatics, denotational mathematics, system science, organization laws, and engineering economics. The book contains in-depth information, annotated references, real-world problems, heuristics, and research opportunities.
Highlighting the inherent limitations of the historical programming-language-centered approach, the author explores an interdisciplinary approach to software engineering. He identifies fundamental cognitive, organizational, and resource constraints and the need for multi-faceted and transdisciplinary theories and empirical knowledge. He then synergizes theories, principles, and best practices of software engineering into a unified framework and delineates overarching, durable, and transdisciplinary theories as well as alternative solutions and open issues for further research. The book develops dozens of Wang's laws for software engineering and outlooks the emergence of software science.
The author's rigorous treatment of the theoretical framework and his comprehensive coverage of complicated problems in software engineering lay a solid foundation for software theories and technologies. Comprehensive and written for all levels, the book explains a core set of fundamental principles, laws, and a unified theoretical framework.

Spis treści

PRINCIPLES AND CONSTRAINTS OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGIntroductionPrinciples of Software EngineeringTHEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGPhilosophical Foundations of Software EngineeringMathematical Foundations of Software EngineeringComputing Foundations of Software EngineeringLinguistics Foundations of Software EngineeringInformation Science Foundations of Software EngineeringORGANIZATIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGEngineering Foundations of Software EngineeringCognitive Informatics Foundations of Software EngineeringSystem Science Foundations of Software EngineeringManagement Science Foundations of Software EngineeringEconomics Foundations of Software EngineeringSociology Foundations of Software EngineeringPERSPECTIVES ON SOFTWARE SCIENCERetrospect on Software EngineeringProspect on Software ScienceBibliographyAppendixesA. Mathematical Symbols, Notations, and AbbreviationsB. Constraints of Software EngineeringC. Heuristic Principles of Software EngineeringD. Models of Entities and Structures of Software EngineeringE. Wang's Laws of Software EngineeringF. Wang's Formal Principles of Software EngineeringG. The Type System of Software EngineeringH. Meta Processes of Software EngineeringI. Algebraic Process Relations of Software EngineeringJ. Deductive Semantics of Software EngineeringK. Formal Models of the ATM System in RTPAL. List of FiguresM. List of TablesIndex

O autorze

Yingxu Wang