Born | 23 February 1951 (age 68)[citation needed] Glasgow, Scotland |
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Residence | Scotland |
Nationality | British |
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Known for | Software engineering textbook[1] |
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Fields | Computer science Systems engineering |
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Website | iansommerville.com |
A a broad perspective on software systems engineering, concentrating on widely used techniques for developing large-scale software systems. Restructured into six parts, this new edition covers a wide spectrum of software processes from initial requirements solicitation through design and development.
Ian F. Sommerville, (born 23 February 1951) is a British academic. He is the author of a popular student textbook on software engineering, as well as a number of other books and papers. He worked as a professor of software engineering at the University of St Andrews in Scotland until 2014 and is a prominent researcher in the field of systems engineering, system dependability and social informatics, being an early advocate of an interdisciplinary approach to system dependability.[2][3]
Education and personal life[edit]
Ian Sommerville was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1951.He studied Physics at Strathclyde University and Computer Science at the University of St Andrews. He is married and has two daughters. As an amateur gourmet, he has written a number of restaurant reviews.
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Academic career[edit]
Ian Sommerville was a lecturer in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland from 1975 to 1978 and at Strathclyde University, Glasgow from 1978–86.From 1986 to 2006, he was Professor of Software Engineering in the Computing Department at the University of Lancaster, and in April 2006 he joined the School of Computer Science at St Andrews University, where he taught courses in advanced software engineering and critical systems engineering. He retired in January 2014 and since continues to do software-related things that he finds interesting.[4]
Ian Sommerville's research work, partly funded by the EPSRC[5] has included systems requirements engineering and system evolution. A major focus has been system dependability, including the use of social analysis techniques such as ethnography to better understand how people and computers deliver dependability. He was a partner in the DIRC (Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Dependability) consortium,[6] which focused on dependable systems design and is now (2006) working on the related INDEED (Interdisciplinary Design and Evaluation of Dependability) project. He has also been a member of the board of advisors to the IEEE SWEBOK project.[7] He has worked on a number of European projects involving collaboration between academia and commercial enterprises, such as the ESPRIT project REAIMS (Requirements Engineering adaptation and improvement for safety and dependability).
Public activities[edit]
In 2006, Ian Sommerville was one of 23 academics in the computer field who wrote open letters calling for an independent audit of the British National Health Service's proposed Programme for IT (NPfIT) and expressing concern about the GBP 12.4 billion programme.[8][9][10]
Publications[edit]
Most widely read of Sommerville's publications is probably his student text book 'Software Engineering', currently in its 10th edition[1] along with other textbooks[11][12] Sommerville has also authored or co-authored numerous peer reviewed articles, papers.[2][3]
References[edit]
- ^ abSommerville, Ian (2011). Software engineering. Boston: Pearson. ISBN978-0-13-705346-9.
- ^ abIan Sommerville at DBLP Bibliography Server
- ^ abList of publications from Microsoft Academic
- ^Sommerville, Ian. 'About me'. iansommerville.com. Ian Sommerville. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- ^http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewPerson.aspx?PersonId=14819 Research grant funding awarded to Ian Sommerville by the EPSRC
- ^Listing as member of DIRC project
- ^IEEE (25 May 2005). 'P1074 Workgroup: Ian Sommerville: Board of Advisors'. Archived from the original on 14 July 2007. Retrieved 5 November 2006.
He is a member of the board of advisors to the IEEE SWEBOK project.
- ^Collins, Tony (12 April 2006). 'NHS Focus: Open Letter: Questions that need to be answered'. ComputerWeekly.com. Reed Business Information Limited. Retrieved 1 November 2006.
- ^Collins, Tony (11 April 2006). 'Signatories to health committee letter'. ComputerWeekly.com. Reed Business Information Limited. Retrieved 1 November 2006.
- ^Collins, Tony (10 October 2006). 'Experts strike new NHS warning note'. ComputerWeekly.com. Reed Business Information Limited. Retrieved 1 November 2006.
- ^Sommerville, Ian; Pete Sawyer (March 1997). Requirements Engineering: A Good Practice Guide. Chichester: Wiley. ISBN978-0-471-97444-4.
- ^Kotonya, Gerald; Ian Sommerville (April 1998). Requirements Engineering: Processes and Techniques. Chichester; New York: Wiley. ISBN978-0-471-97208-2.
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A a broad perspective on software systems engineering, concentrating on widely used techniques for developing large-scale software systems. Restructured into six parts, this new edition covers a wide spectrum of software processes from initial requirements solicitation through design and development.
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Well, I know this borders on cheating, but I hope you will forgive me. It is 6 p.m. Eastern Time (3 p.m. here, in California) on 12/31/2014. I have read 99 books in 2014 and I pledged to read 100. I hate breaking pledges, so I will briefly review the textbook I have been teaching from all year. I had to read over 50 pages of the textbook today while grading the final exam, so I hope this justifies the inclusion of this review here.
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Feb 04, 2011Ioo Vilmos added it · review of another edition
Has good research material in it. Using it for my 260 assignment.
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I think this book is more useful for managers than programmers and Code Complete, the other textbook for my software engineering class, is much better for developers (as such, me right now). However, if you're interested in learning about different software engineering methods and styles of work / management / planning / cycles then this is pretty good. It goes into more detail than Code Complete on different styles of collective coding.
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This book is very good for any one in software field. Some times I lost in the examples. But overall, you can depend on it. I studied it in 2003, but I use it again in 2012 and 2013 and I think I will use it again.
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A seminal volume in the software engineering world. If you are serious about improving your credentials as a true software engineer, you simply must read this text.
A bit boring but well-written!
Mar 16, 2012Sophy Jones rated it it was ok · review of another edition
I read this book as part of a software methodology course on my computer science education. Where the book truly shines is at its thorough core of process and methodology explanations. For this reason alone I would recommend reading the book, but as a modern approach to learn about the processes the book is unfortunately quite heavy and self repeating. I will most likely use this book as a glossary, in case I forget the name of a concept in the future.
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I used this book as reference in my Graduation project, i think it's important to all CS students.
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