Software Engineering in the Unix/C Environment

by William Bruce Frakes, Christopher J. Fox, Brian A. Nejmeh

This work presents the full range of UNIX/C tools in the context of a full software life cycle. The authors show how to use UNIX tools and the C language to produce reliable, efficient, and maintainable software products. The book shows how to take advantage of the UNIX/C programming environment to produce high-quality software systems, summarizing all important UNIX/C development tools; focuses on the technical rather than the managerial side of software engineering; covers concept exploration and feasibility analysis, requirements, design, implementation, testing and maintenance; presents examples of all the major life cycle products of an actual C software system, including a concept exploration and feasibility document, requirements document, design document, source code, test cases and user documentation; provides guidelines and checklists for writing and inspecting C source code;and assesses the future of the UNIX/C development environment.

262 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991