ویرایش هشتم کتاب Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach، در 39 فصل و در قالب پنج بخش با عنوان‌های فرآیندها، مدل سازی، مدیریت کیفیت، مدیریت پروژه‌های نرم افزاری و مباحث پیشرفته ارائه شده است. ویرایش هشتم کتاب مهندسی نرم افزار، کاملا مورد بازنگری قرار گرفته است تا بر روی فرآیند‌ها و تمرینات مهم و جدید مهندسی نرم افزار تاکید بیشتری داشته باشد.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The Nature Of Software
Chapter 2 Software Engineering

Part One The Software Process
Chapter 3 Software Process Structure
Chapter 4 Process Models
Chapter 5 Agile Development
Chapter 6 Human Aspects Of Software Engineering

Part Two Modeling
Chapter 7 Principles That Guide Practice
Chapter 8 Understanding Requirements
Chapter 9 Requirements Modeling: Scenario-Based Methods
Chapter 10 Requirements Modeling: Class-Based Methods
Chapter 11 Requirements Modeling: Behavior, Patterns, And Web/Mobile Apps
Chapter 12 Design Concepts
Chapter 13 Architectural Design
Chapter 14 Component-Level Design
Chapter 15 User Interface Design
Chapter 16 Pattern-Based Design
Chapter 17 Webapp Design
Chapter 18 Mobileapp Design

Part Three Quality Management
Chapter 19 Quality Concepts
Chapter 20 Review Techniques
Chapter 21 Software Quality Assurance
Chapter 22 Software Testing Strategies
Chapter 23 Testing Conventional Applications
Chapter 24 Testing Object-Oriented Applications
Chapter 25 Testing Web Applications
Chapter 26 Testing Mobileapps
Chapter 27 Security Engineering
Chapter 28 Formal Modeling And Verifi Cation
Chapter 29 Software Confi Guration Management
Chapter 30 Product Metrics

Part Four Managing Software Projects
Chapter 31 Project Management Concepts
Chapter 32 Process And Project Metrics
Chapter 33 Estimation For Software Projects
Chapter 34 Project Scheduling
Chapter 35 Risk Management
Chapter 36 Maintenance And Reengineering

Part Five Advanced Topics
Chapter 37 Software Process Improvement
Chapter 38 Emerging Trends In Software Engineering
Chapter 39 Concluding Comments

Appendix 1 An Introduction To UML
Appendix 2 Object-Oriented Concepts
Appendix 3 Formal Methods