If you can get past the terrible editing in chapter 1 it might be an OK reprint of articles on software engineering.
Chapter 1 was very frustrating because of the blatant bad editing. If they were errors in content then they might be due to my misunderstanding, but these are blatant errors and are definitely the fault of bad proofreading/editing. Example: When someone enumerates 4 points as (1),(2),(2) and (4) it is not my imagination.
Chapter 1 is intended for a software engineering manager. Chapter 2 is the obvious part of engineering ethics, concluding with a reprint of the IEEE code of ethics. Chapter 3 defines the system engineering level, at length. Chapter 4 is the importance of requirements engineering. Chapter 5 is Software design, 6 is overviews of development strategies, 7 is coding and unit testing, Chapter 8 is testing and integration, 9 is on maintenance.
Most of the articles are reprints of previously published articles (I even recognize the badly reprinted werewolf pictures from "No Silver Bullet" in Chapter 2 that were previously printed in an IEEE magazine I used to have).
Production values are unacceptable! The digital, on demand printing method used results in inferior print quality. Some pages look like they were running a little low on ink, some seem to have a little too much ink, some graphics with thin lines have breaks in them due to rasterization. Some gray scale to hatching results in a cheap appearance. Did I make it clear enough that Chapter 1 has blatant editing errors that make me distrust the content?
Given the above problems it is also overpriced in my opinion.
This refers to 2nd edition.
OK, this was published by the IEEE. We're Engineers, I don't expect us to be best-selling writers; I do expect us to be able to hire a proofreader and a printer.
