Software-Engineering

Software engineering deals with the development of software systems, particularly the necessary and appropriate methods and tools for this purpose. It involves not only the technical design of systems, meaning their architecture, but also the orderly execution of projects, which includes management issues. This book is the extract from one and a half decades of work on a series of large projects conducted under industrial conditions. It primarily addresses methods—only to a lesser extent tools—of software engineering, specifically the method system practiced by sd&m, which is theoretically grounded and practically tested. Object-oriented methodology plays a central role in this context. The author's background is strongly, though by no means exclusively, shaped by operational information systems. The methods presented are.