Software Engineering 10th Edition

I have used this book in teaching software engineering from the first edition. Sommerville is the clearest and most balanced and practical writer in this realm, bar none. There are other good SE sources that home in on this or that fad or sub-speciality, but Sommerville is the master of presenting the whole field in an accessible and clear manner. Start here -- it will be a touchstone for your whole career.

This book is one of the best textbooks I have ever read. Sommerville is conversational, clear and relevant. Throughout the book there are links to the webpage for the text with extra materials and lectures. After watching the videos, I found that I could "hear" Sommerville's voice in my head as I read. The case study concerning the Ariane 5 launch was an excellent example and encouraged me to learn more about the topic.

This book shipped within two days. The bottom right corner edges are torn a bit but still in excellent condition.This book is informative and has lots of information about software engineering.

The text book got here quicker than expected. Nice. The textbook was used and the description of condition was accurate. Got what I expected. 5 stars.

The formatting of the Kindle version of this book makes the text nearly impossible to comprehend. Tables and images are jarringly placed and notated. Subheaders have strange capitalization. I had to find a scanned PDF version of this text from a random website after purchasing this book for a course, just so I could continue working with the material. It was almost bad enough to make me consider paying five times the cost for the hard copy, which would have been a waste, as my library is largely digital these days.

Not the most interesting thing to read about, but that's not the authors fault. Everything you need to know for an introductory software engineering course is in the book, and it's nice that the author includes some supplemental materials on his website.As a side note, this book is fairly similar to the 9th ed.

the 7th edition has been such an excellent book that I've used as a reference in my professional work as a software manager for so many years, that I had to get this latest 10th edition. It should be every software manager's bible.

Too few examples, too few diagrams, too many words and the amazing part is how unmemorable the words are. Absolutely horrible. If this is your only reference, which sadly it is in my class (no lectures and class notes), then prepare to mine Google and YouTube. If you ever tried to grab fog and retain it, that's what it's like trying to retain the ideas as this book presents them. $170 for this book is ridiculous and the fact that it's required, needs to be investigated.