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Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, Fifth Edition Roger S. Pressman. 2001. New York: McGraw-Hill. 854 pages. ISBN 00736555783 (CSQE Body of Knowledge: All)
Reviewed by Milt Boyd
The 20th anniversary, or fifth edition, of this book has 31 chapters organized into five parts. These parts are: "The Product and the Process," "Managing Software Projects," "Conventional Methods for Software Engineering," "Object Oriented Software Engineering," and "Advanced Topics in Software Engineering." Compared to the fourth edition, the look and layout have been improved, with a positive impact on readability. Five chapters are new material, or extensive updates of prior material, and the others are revised.
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