For almost three decades, Roger Pressman's Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach has 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 of Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach has 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.

Table of Contents
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 Managing Software Projects
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