Quote:Software engineering involves applying engineering practices to building software products. To teach it, it is common to resort to detailed methodological processes and endless lists of all types of techniques. Learners get lost in a thicket of tools, activities, deliverables and standards. The trees don't let them see the forest.

This book explains software engineering concisely, focusing on principles and not processes. It aims to highlight the essential and hide the accessory. You will not find long methodological explanations in this book. Excellence in software building does not rest on the methodology used to carry out the necessary activities, but on the proper understanding of the fundamentals of these activities.

This book offers a more adaptive than predictive perspective, aligning it with the common and industry-accepted modern point of view. The predictive vision is presented in a historical manner, to help understand the motivation for current techniques and practices.