A guide to both practitioners and students of software development. This fourth edition has also been restructured to feature material on topics of interest and concern in Europe. It is structured in five parts: the product and the process; managing software projects; conventional methods for software engineering; and advanced topics in software engineering. The text also includes: an expanded section on ISO9001; an introduction to SPICE ISO initiatives; a chapter on intranet software engineering; and a new section on software derivation.