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Review title: Potentially Good Reference; Not for Pedagogy
Product review: I have been a software development "practitioner" for fifteen years. I decided to take a graduate class in software engineering to brush up on my skills and this was the textbook used.There is quite a bit in this book that applies to development environments ten to fifteen years ago and relatively little that applies to current trends.Much of the material is also presented "shotgun manner" where many techniques from different sources are just thrown out without much attempt at comparison.I came away with a worse impression of "software engineering" as a discipline than when I started.I do think this text could be used as a handy encyclopedia: a starting point to find a definition or two and a jumping point for further research on a particular topic.
