Preface
Software-intensive systems include the following:
• In-house systems for accounting, production control, and e-business
• Applications sold commercially in the mass market (“shrink-wrapped products”)
• Large, complex, “one-of-a-kind” military, industrial, and commercial systems
Projects to develop and maintain software-intensive systems can involve the following:
• Designing, building, testing, and distributing software components
• Selecting and purchasing commercial software and hardware components
• Configuring and, in some cases, designing hardware
• Training and supporting users
Practitioners who develop, manage, procure, or operate software-intensive systems need to estimate and measure the resources needed to perform ...
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