Introduction
Development of any software now will probably use some open source software and will use
large language models (LLMs) or generative AI for some of the tasks.
The open source movement has matured over the last few decades and open source software
is now an important and integral part of the software ecosystem.
LLMs, which arrived relatively recently, have taken the world by a storm
and are impacting all activities where generation of text (or other type of artifacts) is the goal,
including the development of software.
These two important trends are the reason for the sub-title of this edition "with open source and GenAI”.
While this edition of the book, like the previous one, will focus on developing software,
for the major tasks involved in a development project, it will also discuss the use of open source and LLMs.
This website provides some case studies and examples,
and teaching aids including lecture slides.
They are provided by the author to help instructors in teaching an introductory software engineering course
using this book as the primary text. Some of the material provided by the instructor are links to google drive,
where they may be updated.
Later, the author hopes to provide links to teaching material from other instructors
who want to share them through this page, if there is sufficient interest.
The book is published by Springer and this edition is expected to be available in Jan 2025.
For more information about the publication of this edition,
visit Springer's page for the book.
A special edition of this book is being published for the Indian Subcontinent by Wiley India. (It has FAQs for each
chapter for the target audience.)