A Handbook of Software and Systems Engineering

This book is about the empirical aspects of computing. We believe that the fields of computer science, information technology (IT), systems, and software engineering do not emphasize enough the fundamental knowledge needed by practitioners. Moreover, the four fields are diverging more than is necessary. Practitioners have to rely on all of them whenever modern information systems have to be planned, developed, evaluated, or introduced. A unified approach based on empirically derived knowledge from all four fields is helpful for this task.