Software Engineering Literature

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

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.

Websites

• Software Reality

Sub-areas of Software Engineering

• Software process*
  • Software lifecycle*
  • Issue tracking*
  • Extreme programming*
  • Open source software development
• Software configuration management*
  • Version management*
  • Build management*
  • Software deployment*
  • Software logistics
  • Software licensing
• Requirements engineering*
• Software design
  • Software architecture
• Software construction
  • Software reuse*
    • Component based software engineering*
    • Software product lines*
  • Security and reliability
  • Software documentation
  • Coding standards*
• Validation and verification
  • Software inspection
  • Software testing*
  • Testing tools*
  • Static analysis tools*
  • Software metrics*
• Software evolution*
  • Software maintenance*
  • Software understanding*
• Experimental research in software engineering

Miscellaneous

• Software development fiction