Sommerville-Software-Engineering-10ed

1
Introduction
Objectives
The objectives of this chapter are to introduce software engineering and
to provide a framework for understanding the rest of the book. When you
have read this chapter, you will:
■ understand what software engineering is and why it is important;
■ understand that the development of different types of software
system may require different software engineering techniques;
■ understand ethical and professional issues that are important
for software engineers;
■ have been introduced to four systems, of different types, which are
used as examples throughout the book.
Contents
1.1 Professional software development
1.2 Software engineering ethics
1.3 Case studies