This book is prepared first and almost for the students, who would like to became an expert in information technology, system engineering and computer science, and who are willing to be a good in developing systems (system analysis and design in this context), but this book is proposed for specialists in practice as well. The author gives a general overview about the most important questions of the information systems, the IT possibilities, and she gives a very good summary of the main tasks, techniques and tools necessary in the whole information engineering life cycle. The book is the only up-to-date one in Hungarian language, which deals not only with the different paradigms, methods, techniques and tools of IE, but describes the  most frequently used development methodologies, making understandable them by showing patterns. To this book join very practical books which help to acquire the tasks and the way of the application of the different methods and tools in practice.  These volumes are the following: IRT2, IRT3, IRT4, Decision-Making, in which the Readers can find the right way of the engineering work with very good examples and case studies.

The content is briefly as follows:

1. Information, system, information system: This chapter helps to understand the most important terminology, e.g. data, information, knowledge; System and organization;. Business processes; Business environment; Information and information system

2. The Era of Info-Communication: The evolution of IS/IT,  the dominancy of Information Technology, The changed role of IT; the information-resource as a strategic factor; new era of the IT, popularization, on-line business, E-Business; Evolutionary expectations; The creation of the Information Society (responsibilities, tasks, programs), the new aspects of IT.

3. Information management and Software Quality:  Information management: strategy, tasks, roles and responsibilities of the IT Organizations and the CIO,  the Cybercorp organizations, Software Quality: the nature of the software, McCall and FURPS models, software quality measurements, Software Quality Assurance, the quality of software development processes, the software maturity model

4. The Methodology of Information Engineering: The engineering technology ( the software as an industrial product, the process of engineering); Engineering paradigms; The importance of using the appropriate methodology {methods (conventional, OO) and tools}; The supporting tools (CASE tools); The role of visualization (focusing on tools, diagrams, standards and UML)

5. Launching a Software Development Project: Problem definition and analysis; Feasability Study; Starting a development project; Project-management (scheduling, methods); Risk- and change management;  tools for project definition and management

6. The Analysis Phase:. The role of the system-documentation: organization architecture (units, tasks, roles, responsibilities); The business processes (definition, classification); data-flow analysis; System behavior; creation and analysis of the "is" model, Requirements specification;

7. The Design of the Conceptual Model (the PIM model): The concept of the Model Driven Architecture; the term of the model, abstraction, hashing, modeling; System design by conventional philosophy (data-model, normal forms, functionality); Object-Oriented design (object modeling, behavior, functional view, roles, interfaces);. Migration from structured to OO; The relation of the different model-views: PPP, the model integration

8. The Design of the Physical Model (the PSM model): The hashing procedures from logical model  to the physical environment, the classification of the components; Design of computer configuration (requirements, tasks, factors); Data-base design (historical overview, database and -management, database systems); Data Base Management System, special applications (data-mining, data-warehouse); Human-machine communication: the human factor of the computer-based systems, the communication model, design of input/output and dialogues

9. The Implementation Phase: The tasks of the program specification, the tasks, techniques and tools of the software design: Designing philosophies, Implementation strategies, steps, environment, Component-specification, Test-cases, testing procedures, criteria of evaluation  Program-documentation (strategies, techniques and tools; validation, verification, testing levels, test-plan, test-data)

10. Deployment and System maintenance:. The way and the tasks, how to introduce the developed application into operation (new organization architecture, roles, responsibilities, education, training, skills); System-efficiency, Measures and factors; Maintenance tasks; Change and Configuration management

11. Epilogue

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