Software Fundamentals: Collected Papers

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

David L. Parnas is one of the grandmasters of software engineering. His academic research and industrial collaborations have exerted far-reaching influence on software design and development. His groundbreaking writings capture the essence of the innovations, controversies, challenges, and solutions of the software industry. Together, they constitute the foundation for modern software theory and practice.

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Software, Technical

664 pages, Mass Market 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.