This textbook is designed for use in introductory Software Engineering courses. Additionally, it can be used by junior developers intending to consolidate their knowledge in the field. The book has 350 pages, 10 chapters, and 120 exercises. It also has a Portuguese edition, available here.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Historical Context, Topics of Study
Chapter 2: Processes
Agile Manifesto, XP, Scrum, Kanban
Chapter 3: Requirements
User Stories, Use Cases, MVP, A/B Testing
Chapter 4: Models
Class, Package, Sequence, Activity Diagrams
Chapter 5: Design Principles
Conceptual Integrity, Information Hiding, Cohesion, Coupling, SOLID
Chapter 6: Design Patterns
Factory, Singleton, Proxy, Adapter, Facade, Decorator, Strategy, Observer, Template Method, Visitor
Chapter 7: Architecture
MVC, Microservices, Message-Oriented, Pub/Sub
Chapter 8: Testing
Unit Tests, Principles and Smells, Coverage, Testability, Mocks, TDD, Integration Tests, E2E Tests
Chapter 9: Refactoring
Examples, Refactoring Practice, Automated Refactorings, Code Smells
Chapter 10: DevOps
Version Control, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment
Appendix: Git
License: Version for personal use only. Redistribution or modifications are prohibited.
Resources
- More than 900 slides with exercises (pdf, by chapter): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Ap
- More than 200 True or False exercises (by chapter): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
- Hands-on exercises: CI Servers
- Source code examples on an online IDE (by chapter): 6, 8
Short Articles
These articles complement the content of the book:
- Ch. 3: MVPs, Product Discovery
- Ch. 5: Domain-Driven Design, Deep Modules, Dependency Injection
- Ch. 6: Composite Design Pattern
- Ch. 7: Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, Serverless
- Ch. 8: Mutation Testing, Examples of Tests
- Ch. 10: Branching Strategies, Code Review
Instructors
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Author
Marco Tulio Valente holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science since 2009. Previously, he was an adjunct professor at PUC Minas for 11 years and a senior systems analyst at a telecommunication company for four years. He is the author of more than 170 papers and has supervised over 30 master's dissertations and 15 doctoral theses.
Citing the Book
Marco Tulio Valente. Software Engineering: A Modern Approach, 2024. (bibtex)
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