Roger S. Pressman is an American software engineer

Software engineer

A software engineer is an engineer who applies the principles of software engineering to the design, development, testing, and evaluation of the software and systems that make computers or anything containing software, such as computer chips, work.- Overview :...

, author and consultant

Consultant

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, and President of R.S. Pressman & Associates.

He received a BSE from the University of Connecticut

University of Connecticut

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, an MS from the University of Bridgeport

University of Bridgeport

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 and a PhD from the University of Connecticut. He has over 30 years of experience worked as a software engineer, a manager, a professor, an author, and a consultant, focusing on software engineering issues. He has been on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Software and The Cutter IT Journal. He is a member of the IEEE and Tau Beta Pi

Tau Beta Pi

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Pressman has designed and developed products that are used worldwide for software engineering training and process improvement.

Publications

Roger Pressman has authored several articles and books on technical and management subjects. A selection:

• 1977. Numerical control and computer-aided manufacturing
• 1982. Software engineering : a practitioner's approach (first edition)
• 1988. Making software engineering happen : a guide for instituting the technology.
• 1988. Software engineering : a beginner's guide.
• 1991. Software shock : the danger & the opportunity
• 2005. Software engineering : a practitioner's approach (sixth edition)
• 2009. Web engineering : a practitioner's approach