Professional Issues in Software Engineering

An comprehensive text covering all the issues that software engineers now have to take into account apart from the technical side of things. Includes information on the legal, professional and commercial context in which they work.

List of contents

1. The Engineering Profession 2. The Structure of Organisations 3. Finance and Accounting 4. Anatomy of a Software House 5. Computer Contracts 6. Intellectual Property Rights 7. The Framework of Employee Relations Law and Changing Management Practices 8. Human Resource Management and Software Engineering 9. Health and Safety at Work 10. Software Liability: Liability and Practice 11. Computer Misuse and the Criminal Law 12. Regulation and Control of Personal Information: Data Protection, Defamation and Related Issues Appendix: The British Computer Society Code of Conduct

About the author

Frank Bott, Allison Coleman, Allison Coleman, Diane Rowland

Summary

An comprehensive text covering all the issues that software engineers now have to take into account apart from the technical side of things. Includes information on the legal, professional and commercial context in which they work.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Bott, Frank Coleman Bott, Bott Frank, Allison Coleman, Coleman Allison, Jack Eaton, Eaton Jack, Diane Rowland, Rowland Diane
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2017
• EAN: 9781138468474
• ISBN: 978-1-138-46847-4
• No. of pages: 380
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Software Engineering, COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / General, COMPUTERS / Programming / General, Computer programming / software engineering, Computer Programming / Software Development