Value-Based Software Engineering (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)

The IT community has always struggled with questions concerning the value of an organizationa (TM)s investment in software and hardware. It is the goal of value-based software engineering (VBSE) to develop models and measures of value which are of use for managers, developers and users as they make tradeoff decisions between, for example, quality and cost or functionality and schedule a" such decisions must be economically feasible and comprehensible to the stakeholders with differing value perspectives. VBSE has its roots in work on software engineering economics, pioneered by Barry Boehm in the early 1980s. However, the emergence of a wider scope that defines VBSE is more recent. VBSE extends the merely technical ISO software engineering definition with elements not only from economics, but also from cognitive science, finance, management science, behavioural sciences, and decision sciences, giving rise to a truly multi-disciplinary framework.

Biffl and his co-editors invited leading researchers and structured their contributions into three parts, following an introduction into the area by Boehm himself. They first detail the foundations of VBSE, followed by a presentation of state-of-the-art methods and techniques. The third part demonstrates the benefits of VBSE through concrete examples and case studies.

This book deviates from the more anecdotal style of many management-oriented software engineering books and so appeals particularly to all readers who are interested in solid foundations for high-level aspects of software engineering decision making, i.e. to product or project managers driven by economics and to software engineering researchers and students.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	September 2005
First published:	2006
Editors:	Stefan Biffl • Aybuke Aurum • Barry Boehm • Hakan Erdogmus • Paul Grunbacher
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	388
Edition:	2006 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-540-25993-0
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > Software engineering
LSN:	3-540-25993-7
Barcode:	9783540259930

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