Software Fundamentals: Collected Papers

by David L. Parnas, David M. Weiss (Contributor)

(Pearson Education) A collection of 33 influential papers on the foundation of modern software theory and practice and various areas of software engineering, by David L/ Parnas. Provides historical content for each paper, and explains topics such as relational and tabular documentation and the status of software engineering. Computer software.

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Software, Technical

688 pages, Paperback

First published April 19, 2001

About the author

David Lorge Parnas (born February 10, 1941) is a Canadian early pioneer of software engineering, who developed the concept of information hiding in modular programming, which is an important element of object-oriented programming today. He is also noted for his advocacy of precise documentation.