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Download your digital copy today and immerse yourself in the complexities, principles, and real-world applications of software engineering in the ever-evolving landscape of technology. 1Introduction to Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.1Overview of Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2Software Development Life Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 1.3Software Process Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 1.4Agile Software Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 1.5Waterfall Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 2Requirements Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 2.1Requirements Gathering and Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 2.2Requirements Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 2.3Requirements Validation and Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 3Software Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 3.1Design Principles and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 3.2Architectural Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 3.3Object-Oriented Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 3.4Design Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 4Software Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 4.1Testing Principles and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 4.2Test Plan and Test Case Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 4.3Black-box Testing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 5Software Maintenance and Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 5.1Maintenance Activities and Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2391 5.3Maintenance Process Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Refactoring and Reengineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 6Software Project Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 6.5Project Planning and Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Project Scheduling and Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Risk Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 Quality Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 Configuration Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 7Software Metrics and Quality Assurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 7.2Software Inspection and Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 Software Process Improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 8Software Engineering Tools and Environments . . . . . . . . . . 369 8.2Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 Automated Testing Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 9Software Engineering Ethics and Professional Practices 403 9.3Ethical and Professional Issues in Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . 403 Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice . . . 418 Software Licensing and Intellectual Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 10 Emerging Trends in Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 DevOps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 Cloud Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478 Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553 Internet of Things (IoT) and Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562 11 Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571