Modern Software Engineering Concepts and Practices: Advanced Approaches

This collection of sixteen articles on advanced topics in software development showcases current scholarship in the fields of computer software design, programming, and testing. The volume is divided into sections covering software architecture, software services, estimation and metrics and process improvement and design tools. Individual papers discuss such topics as architecture driven modernization, semantic analysis and the modeling of semantic service descriptions, cognitive complexity measures, agility and plan based assessments and tool integration and software development governance. Papers include abstracts, illustrations, notes and references and a volume-wide compilation of reading resources is provided. Contributors include academics and software professionals from universities and firms in Europe, Asia and the US. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)