What Every Engineer Should Know about Software Engineering

Although software engineering is an established discipline, many practicing software engineers have little or no formal education. Moreover, the ever-morphing, multidimensional nature of the field creates challenges for practitioners. What Every Engineer Should Know about Software Engineering provides the knowledge and tools to help engineers and students understand the profession of software engineering, and ultimately lower software development and maintenance costs. Written in a question and answer format, this authoritative guide presents most major programming languages, development approaches, and paradigms. It also details the designing and building of software, and covers software quality assurance.