Software Engineering Literature

This page contains a selection from the software engineering literature and pointers to sites with useful information.

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Overview

Handbooks and other Reference Material

• Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge

• Albert Endres and Dieter Rombach. A Handbook of Software and Systems Engineering. Addison Wesley, 2003.

• comp.software-eng FAQs

General Textbooks

• Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. The Mythical Man-Month. Addison-Wesley, 1995.

• Ian Sommerville. Software Engineering. Addison Wesley, Fifth edition, 1995.

• Shari Lawrence Pfleeger. Software Engineering. Theory and Practice. Prentice Hall, second edition, 2001.

• Roger S. Pressman. Software Engineering. A practioner's Approach. McGrawHill, fourth edition, 1997.

Books about Tools

• A. Zeller, and J. Krinke: Linux/Unix Classic Toolset: For practical development and debugging. Wiley, 2003.

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Software Engineering Process

• Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. The Mythical Man-Month, chapters 1--2. Addison-Wesley, 1995.

• Brad Appleton's Software Process Links

• Process Patterns at Wiki Web

CMM

• Mark C. Paulk, Bill Curtis, Mary Beth Chrissis, and Charles V. Weber. Capability Maturity Model, Version 1.1. In _IEEE Software, Vol.~10, No. 4, July 1993, pp. 18--27.

• Mark C. Paulk. Extreme Programming from a CMM Perspective. In IEEE Software, Vol. 18, No. 6, November/December 2001, pp. 19--26.

Agile Methods

• Extreme Programming

• Kent Beck. Extreme Programming Explained. Addison Wesley, 2000

• Bernhard Rumpe and Astrid Schröder. Quantitative Survey on Extreme Programming Projects

Open Source Software Development

• Eric S. Raymond. The Cathedral & the Bazaar. O'Reilly, 1999.

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Software Configuration Management

General

• Walter Tichy. Software Configuration Management Overview.

• Jacky Estublier. Software Configuration Management : A Roadmap In The Future of Software Engineering; Ed. Anthony Finkelstein; ACM Press (May 2000). ISBN 1-58113-253-0

• Brad Appleton's Software Configuration Management Links

• Susan Dart, Concepts in Software Configuration Management Systems, In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Software Configuration Management, Trondheim, Norway, 1991, pages 1-18.

Build Management

• S. I. Feldman. Make --- A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs. In Software --- Practice and Experience, Vol. 9, No. 4, April 1979, pp. 255--265. Revised April 1986.

• Peter Miller. Recursive Make Considered Harmful, 1997.

• Erik H. Baalbergen, Kees Verstoep, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum. On the design of the Amoeba Configuration Manager. In Proc. 2nd Int. Works. on Software Configuration Management, Vol. 17, No. 7 of ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, pp. 15--22, November 1989.

• Geoffrey M. Clemm. The Odin System --- Reference Manual, 1997, chapters 1--3.

• David MacKenzie, Ben Elliston, and Akim Demaille. Autoconf --- Creating Automatic Configuration Scripts (edition 2.53), March 2002, chapters 1--3.

• David MacKenzie and Tom Tromey. GNU Automake (version 1.6.1), April 2002, chapters 1--3.

Version Management

• Per Cederqvist et al. Version Management with CVS (for CVS 1.11.2), chapters 1--15.

• Allan Heydon, Roy Levin, Timothy Mann, and Yuan Yu. The Vesta Approach to Software Configuration Management. Compaq Systems Research Center Research Report 168, March 9, 2001. http://www.vestasys.org/.

Software Deployment

• Antonio Carzaniga, Alfonso Fuggetta, Richard S. Hall, Dennis Heimbigner, Andre van der Hoek, Alexander L. Wolf. A Characterization Framework for Software Deployment Technologies. Technical Report CU-CS-857-98, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Colorado, April 1998.

• Richard S. Hall, Dennis Heimbigner, Alexander L. Wolf. A Cooperative Approach to Support Software Deployment Using the Software Dock. In Proc. Int'l Conf. Software Eng. (ICSE '99), IEEE CS Press, 1999.

• Merijn de Jonge. Source Tree Composition. In Seventh International Conference on Software Reuse, No. 2319 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2002.

• André van der Hoek. Integrating Configuration Management and Software Deployment. In Proceedings of the Working Conference on Complex and Dynamic Systems Architecture (CDSA 2001), Brisbane, Australia, December 2001.

• André van der Hoek and Alexander L. Wolf. Software Release Management for Component-Based Software In Software - Practice and Experience 33, January 2003

• Chris Luer. Composition Environments for Deployable Software Components. Technical Report #02-18, Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, August 2002.

• T.R. Fullhart. RPM Tutorial

• Dan Poirier. Packaging software with RPM, Part 1. Using RPM on Red Hat Linux 7.1

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Verification and Validation

Software Testing

• comp.software.testing FAQ

Code Inspection

• SEI description of inspection

• Adam Porter, Harvey Siy, and Lawrence Votta. A Review of Software Inspections In Marvin Zelkowitz, editor, Software Process, volume 42 of Advances in Computers. Academic Press, 1996.

• http://www.testing.com/

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Design

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Construction

Software Reuse

• Charles Krueger. SoftwareReuse in ACM Computing Surveys, June 1992, pages 131-183.

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Security and reliability

• SEI Networked Systems Survivability program

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Other Topics

Experimental Research in Software Engineering

• Walter F. Tichy, "Should Computer Scientists Experiment More? 16 Reasons to Avoid Experimentation," IEEE Computer 31(5), May 1998, 32-40.

Documentation

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Developer collaboration

• • Wiki

Bugtracking

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Licensing

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  • Patent and other legal issues