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  The essentials of modern software engineering: free the practices from the method prisons!
Jacobson I., Lawson H., Ng P., McMahon P., Goedicke M., Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool, New York, NY, 2019. 401 pp.  Type: Book

This introductory software engineering textbook differs from others in that it does not focus on one particular methodology. Instead, the book focuses on identifying the essence of software engineering, a meta-model that allows the rea...
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Oct 14 2019  
  Agile and SEMAT: perfect partners
Jacobson I., Spence I., Ng P. Communications of the ACM 56(11): 53-59, 2013.  Type: Article

While agile methods of software development have been broadly accepted as being efficient and productive, there are still some questions open: What about larger projects that cannot be handled in one team? What about sustainability? Wh...
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Dec 31 2013  
  The essence of software engineering: applying the SEMAT kernel
Jacobson I., Ng P., McMahon P., Spence I., Lidman S., Addison-Wesley Professional, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2013. 352 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-321885-95-1)

This is a difficult book to review. First, the title implies that it covers “the essence of software engineering,” which I consider an exaggeration. The content is definitely related to the discipline, but in a diff...
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Aug 16 2013  
  The unified modeling language user guide (2nd ed.) (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
Booch G., Rumbaugh J., Jacobson I., Addison-Wesley Professional, Boston, MA, 2005. 496 pp.  Type: Book (9780321267979)

After a decade of practical experience, the unified modeling language (UML) has reached its first major revision, UML 2.0. This book is the second edition of the original user guide [1] written by the “tres amigos,”...
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Sep 22 2006  
  Aspect-oriented software development with use cases (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
Jacobson I., Ng P., Addison-Wesley Professional, Boston, MA, 2004. 464 pp.  Type: Book (9780321268884)

Object orientation is a very familiar topic for most readers, compared with aspect orientation. In recent years, aspect orientation has become an important topic, and this book addresses it. The book discusses how to conduct aspect-ori...
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Dec 6 2005  

 
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