Software Engineering Literature

This page contains a selection from the software engineering literature and pointers to sites with useful information. This part of the website is particularly useful if you are looking for in-depth knowledge of a specific subject.

Handbooks and other reference material

• Ian Sommerville. Software Engineering. Addison Wesley, Eighth edition, 2006.

• Jim Davies and Jim Woodcock. Using Z. A downloadable book about the specification language Z. <br/ > Chapters 2 up to 9 deal only with preliminary material, which should be read if you are not at home with sets, predicate logic, relations and functions. Other material needed for the lab assignment will be treated during the lecture.

• Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge

• comp.software-eng FAQs

Other general textbooks

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

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

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