Maciaszek L.A. and Liong B.L. (2005):
Practical Software Engineering
Addison Wesley, 864p.

This book is aimed at wide readership of students and IT professionals. An ideal reader is a student of a software engineering course or a software developer (or project leader/manager). The book is written so that it can be fully understood by students and professionals who posses basic knowledge of information systems and basic programming skills (hopefully in an object-oriented language and with some database use). For most readers, this corresponds to the first year of a university degree in computer science or informatics (information systems, information technology).

For students, the primary use of this textbook is in software engineering courses with a software development component. The book can also be used as a textbook in courses in information systems development, software project, or systems analysis and design when taught in higher years or to more mature students. Moreover, the book can be used as a recommended reading in courses on object technology, object programming, web-based systems, database design and programming, and similar.

Practitioners most likely to benefit from the book include system designers, programmers, software architects, business and system analysts, project leaders and managers, web and content developers, reviewers, testers, quality assurance managers and industry trainers. The book can be used for professional education and training courses and workshops. It can also be adopted as a source of information for project teams. For practitioners already using UML, Java and relational databases on software projects, this book can serve as a validation of their software development practices and as a source of development ideas and directions.