This book is prepared first of all for the students, who would like to became an expert in the field of information technology, system engineering and computer science, and who are willing to be a good engineer (system analyst and designer in this context), but this book is proposed for the specialists in practice as well. The author dicusses all of the important questions about the information systems, the IT possibilities, and she gives a very good summary of the main tasks, techniques and tools nessesary in the hole IE life cycle. The book is the only up-to-date one in Hungarian language, which deals not only with the different paradigm, methods, techniques and tools of IE, but describes some development methodologies showing patterns as well. Some very practical books belong to this volume: 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 brief content is as follows:

1. Information, system, information system:Data, information, knowledge; System and organisation;. Business processes; Business environment; Information and information system

2. The Information Revolution: Globalisation; Information Technology (new era of the IT, popularisation, on-line business, E-Business); The creation of the Information Society (responsibilities, tasks, programs)

3. Information management: The changed role of IT; information-resource as a strategic factor; The new form of organizations, Cybercorp; Business goals, vision and information strategy; The tasks of the information-management,

4. Information Engineering: The engineering technology ( the production of software, the process of engineering); Engineering paradigm; The importance of the methodology {methods (conventional, OO) and tools}; The role of visualisation (focusing on tools, diagrams, standards and UML)

5. Project-management: Requirements specification; Software Quality and the aim and models of SQA; Starting a development project; Project-management (scheduling, methods); Risk- and change management

6. The analysis phase:. The role of the system-diagnosys; The organisation architecture (units, tasks, roles, responsibilities); The business processes (definition, classification); data-flow analysis; System behaviour; requrements specification; the "is" model

7. Information system design: Abstraction, hashing, modelling; System design by conventional philosophy (data-model, normal forms, functionality); Object-Oriented design (object modelling, behaviour, functional view, roles, interfaces);. Migration from structured to OO

8. The system from the physical point of view: The logical and physical models, 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. Implementation phase: Software design: Design philosophies, Implementation (strategies, steps, environment), Component-specification, Peogram-documentation; Testing (strategies, techniques and tools; validation, verification, testing levels): test-plan, test-data, evaluation

10. Software maintenance:. Deliver the IS into operation (new organization architecture, roles, responsibilities, education, training, skills); System-efficiency, Measures and factors; Maintenance tasks

11. The software as an automation tool of the development: Philosophy of development automation; Integrated development tools; 4GL, 5GL software; CASE tools; Unified Modelling Language

12. Looking forward

Appendix:

1. The process flow of the IE

2. Object-Oriented System Development - Case Study

3. Conventional Methodologies: SADT, DSSD, ISAC, SDM, SSADM, DARTS , Domino

4. Object-Oriented Mathods: Lorensen’s method, OMT (Rumbaugh), OOADA (Booch), Fusion, OOSE (Jacobson), OOIE (Martin-Odell), OOA/D(Coad/Yourdon), Shlaer/Mellor method

5. EuroMethod

6. UML - Unified Modeling Language

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