For almost three decades, Roger Pressman'sSoftware Engineering: A Practitioner's Approachhas been the world's leading textbook in software engineering. The new seventh edition represents a major restructuring and update of previous editions, solidifying the book's position as the most comprehensive guide to this important subject.The seventh edition ofSoftware Engineering: A Practitioner's Approachhas been designed to consolidate and restructure the content introduced over the past two editions of the book. The chapter structure will return to a more linear presentation of software engineering topics with a direct emphasis on the major activities that are part of a generic software process. Content will focus on widely used software engineering methods and will de-emphasize or completely eliminate discussion of secondary methods, tools and techniques. The intent is to provide a more targeted, prescriptive, and focused approach, while attempting to maintain SEPA's reputation as a comprehensive guide to software engineering.The book will be organized in five (5) parts-Process, Modeling, Quality Management, Project Management, and Advanced Topics. The chapter count will remain at 32, unchanged from the sixth edition. However, eight new chapters have been developed and another six chapters have undergone major or moderate revisions. The remaining chapters have undergone minor edits/updates.

1 Software and Software Engineering Part One The Software Process 2 Process Models 3 Agile Development Part Two Modeling 4 Principles that Guide Practice 5 Understanding Requirements 6 Requirements Modeling: Scenarios, Information, and Analysis Classes 7 Requirements Modeling: Flow, Behavior, Patterns, and WebApps 8 Design Concepts 9 Architectural Design 10 Component-Level Design 11 User Interface Design 12 Pattern-Based Design 13 WebApp Design Part Three Quality Management 14 Quality Concepts 15 Review Techniques 16 Software Quality Assurance 17 Software Testing Strategies 18 Testing Conventional Applications 19 Testing Object-Oriented Applications 20 Testing Web Applications 21 Formal Modeling and Verification 22 Software Configuration Management 23 Product Metrics Part Four Project Management 24 Project Management Concepts 25 Process and Project Metrics 26 Estimation for Software Projects 27 Project Scheduling 28 Risk Management 29 Maintenance and Reengineering Part Five Advanced Topics 30 Software Process Improvement 31 Emerging Trends in Software Engineering 32 Concluding Comments Appendix I-An Introduction to UML Appendix II-Object-Oriented Concepts