Software Engineering Quotes

“Much of the complexity of mobile apps occurs not in the functionality provided, but rather with the nature of the information that can be accessed and the ways in which this can be manipulated.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“The analysis model and the methods that are used to build it are presented in detail in Chapter 8”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“Doug: Is that legal in UML? Facilitator: Legality isn’t the issue. The point is to communicate information. I view the use of a humanlike stick figure for representing a device to be misleading. So I’ve adapted things a bit. I don’t think it creates a problem.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“Jamie: I’m just beginning to learn UML notation. So the home security function is represented by the big box with the ovals inside it? And the ovals represent use cases that we’ve written in text? Facilitator: Yep. And the stick figures represent actors—the people or things that interact with the system as described by the use case . . . oh, I use the labeled square to represent an actor that’s not a person . . . in this case, sensors. Doug: Is that legal in UML? Facilitator: Legality isn’t the issue. The point is to communicate information. I view the use of a humanlike stick figure for representing a device to be misleading. So I’ve adapted things a bit. I don’t think it creates a problem.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“In fact, the Q&A session should be used for the first encounter only and then replaced by a requirements elicitation format that combines elements of problem solving, negotiation, and specification. An approach of this type is presented in Section 7.3.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“Sommerville and Sawyer [Som97] define a stakeholder as “anyone who benefits in a direct or indirect way from the system which is being developed.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“to get the project started in a way that will keep it moving forward toward a successful solution.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“In such cases, requirements engineering is simply a matter of conducting meaningful conversations with colleagues who are well-known members of the team. But reality is often quite different.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“Have requirements associated with performance, behavior, and operational characteristics been clearly stated? What requirements appear to be implicit?”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“However, usage scenarios may be all that are required for smaller products or systems that reside within well-understood technical environments.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“The formality and format of a specification varies with the size and the complexity of the software to be built.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“It is important to realize that each of these tasks is done iteratively as the project team and the stakeholders continue to share information about their respective concerns.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“Without it, the resulting software has a high probability of not meeting customer’s needs.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“From a software process perspective, requirements engineering is a major software engineering action that begins during the communication activity and continues into the modeling activity.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“The social processes around software development are . . . highly dependent on engineers’ abilities to find and connect with individuals who share similar goals and complementary skills, to harmonize each team member’s communication and teaming preferences, to collaborate and coordinate during the entire software lifecycle, and advocate for their product’s success in the marketplace.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“At the outer layers, organizational behavior governs the actions of the company and its response to the business milieu.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“organizational behavior governs the actions of the company and its response to the business milieu.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“An effective software engineer manages pressure so that his performance does not suffer.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“An effective software engineer exhibits resilience under pressure. Software engineering is always on the edge of chaos.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“Extreme Programming encompasses a set of rules and practices that occur within the context of four framework activities: planning, design, coding, and testing.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“three popular agile methods: Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, and DevOps.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

“daily meetings make it hard for developers to stray too far from building products that stakeholders find useful.”
― Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach