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Roger S. Pressman

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Dr. Roger Pressman is an author and consultant and is President of R.S. Pressman & Associates.

Pressman is author of the textbook Software Engineering: A Practitioners Approach, now in its 6th edition and published by McGraw-Hill in 2005. The book has been translated into 8 languages and is the world's best selling textbook on the subject. Pressman is also author of five other books on software engineering-related topics and has written a novel, The Aymara Bridge.

Dr. Pressman specializes in helping companies establish effective software engineering practices. He is the developer of Process Advisor, the industy's first self-directed software process improvement product and Essential Software Engineering, the industry's most comprehensive video curriculum in software engineering. He has ventured into a new Internet-based software engineering training curriculum, EdistaLearning, developed in partnership with QAI India.

Dr. Roger S. Pressman has extended support to QAI to launch "The QAI & Dr. Pressman Series" in the EdistaLearning portfolio of elearning courses. It has courses that draw upon Dr. Pressman's highly successful and the industry's most comprehensive video curriculum in software engineering —"Essential Software Engineering."

Dr. Pressman has designed and developed products that are used worldwide for software engineering training and process improvement—Essential Software Engineering (ESE), the industry's most comprehensive video curriculum in software engineering, and Process Advisor, the industry's first self-directed software process improvement product.

Dr. Pressman is the author of seven books and many technical and management articles. His book, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach (McGraw-Hill, 6/e, 2005), is the world's most widely used software engineering textbook. 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.


Courses in the QAI and Dr. Pressman Series

  • Software Engineering Process Approach
    • An Introduction to Software Engineering
    • Software Process Models
    • Common Process Framework
    • Software Process Improvement
    • Advanced Software Process Models
  • Software Project Management
    • Basic Concepts of Software Project Management
    • Software Project Measurement and Metrics
    • Basic Concepts and Techniques of Estimation
    • Measuring the Size of Software Products
    • Outsourcing Project Work
    • Risk Management
  • Software Quality Management
    • Basic Concepts of Software Quality
    • Software Quality Assurance
    • Formal Technical Reviews
  • Software Configuration Management
    • An Overview to Software Configuration Management
    • The Tasks in the SCM Process
  • Software Testing
    • An Introduction to Software Testing
    • Test Case Design Techniques
    • Software Testing Strategies

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