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- This is the monthly "frequently asked questions" (FAQ) posting on
- reading materials for software engineers. Topics include:
- Textbooks
- Periodicals on Software Engineering
- Professional Journals
- Mixed Research and Practice
- Research Journals
- Other magazines
- Other sources of information
- General reading for software engineers
- General
- Programming in the large
- Programming in the small
- Mathematical Approaches
- Other
- Cost Estimation
- Formal Specification
- Metrics
- Metrics - General
- Metrics for object-oriented systems
- Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
- Programming Style
- Real-Time Systems
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- Subject: Textbooks
- Date: 6 Dec 1997
- Originally collected by: hsrender@happy.colorado.edu (Hal Render)
- The first 8 items are Hal Render's original list in his rough order of preferĀ”
- ence.
-
- 1. Software Engineering: The Production of Quality Software by Shari Pfleeger,
- 2nd Edition, Macmillan, 1991, ISBN 0-02-395115-X.
- hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #2, had the best explanations of what
- I want to cover (different engineering lifecycles, methods, and tools).
- 2. Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach by Roger Pressman, 4th
- Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1996, ISBN 0070521824
- hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: (on 2nd edition): Like #1, had the best
- explanations of what I want to cover (different engineering lifecycles,
- methods, and tools).
- robb@iotek.uucp (Robb Swanson): The definitive book on the subject as far
- as I'm concerned.
- johnson@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Michelle Johnson): A good text book as well as
- reference.
- 3. Software Systems Engineering by Andrew Sage and James D. Palmer.
- hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #1, had the best explanations of what
- I want to cover (different engineering lifecycles, methods, and tools).
- 4. Fundamentals of Software Engineering by Ghezzi, Jayazeri and Mandrioli,
- Prentice-Hall, 1991
- hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #5, good, and covered the issue of
- specifications and verification better, but at the expense of other
- aspects of the development process. I may use one of them for a graduate
- course in software engineering.
- nancy@murphy.ICS.UCI.EDU (Nancy Leveson): Better than Sommerville, although
- I like much of Sommerville.
- 5. Software Engineering with Abstractions by Valdis Berzins and Luqi, Addison
- Wesley, 1991, 624 pages.
- hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #4, good, and covered the issue
- of specifications and verification better, but at the expense of other
- aspects of the development process. I may use one of them for a graduate
- course in software engineering.
- straub@cs.UMD.EDU (Pablo A. Straub): Both this and #9 have a good emphasis
- on using formal techniques (i.e., doing engineering properly), but they
- do not disregard informal methods; chapters are roughly organized around
- the traditional lifecycle. #5 is longer and can be used in a two-term
- sequence or for graduate students (it's possible to use it in a one-
- term undergrad course by covering only part of the material). One thing I
- like is that management and validation is given in all chapters, so that
- these activities are integrated into the development process. Emphasizes
- the use of formally specified abstractions. Uses the authors'
- specification language (Spec) to develop a project in Ada.
- 6. Software Engineering by Ian Sommerville, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-17568-1
- hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Our current text, and my basic problem with it
- is the vague way it covers many of the topics.
- 7. Software Engineering with Student Project Guidance by Barbara Mynatt
- hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #8, not bad, but fairly low-level and
- doesn't cover many tools and techniques I consider valuable.
- 8. Software Engineering by Roger Jones
- hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #7, not bad, but fairly low-level and
- doesn't cover many tools and techniques I consider valuable.
- 9. Software Engineering: Planning for Change by David Alex Lamb, Prentice-
- Hall, 1988, 298 pages.
- straub@cs.UMD.EDU (Pablo A. Straub): Both this and #5 have a good emphasis
- on using formal techniques (i.e., doing engineering properly), but they
- do not disregard informal methods; chapters are roughly organized around
- the traditional lifecycle. #9 has the advantage of being shorter, yet
- covering most relevant topics (lifecycle phases, formal specs, v&v,
- configurations, management, etc.). It is very appropriate for an
- undergrad course. It emphasizes that maintenance is a given and should
- be taken into account (hence the title). Several specification
- techniques are covered and used to develop a project in Pascal.
- 10. A Practical Handbook for Software Development by N.D. Birrell and M.A.
- Ould, Cambridge University Press, 1985/88. ISBN 0-521-34792-0 (Paper
- cover); ISBN 0-521-25462-0 (Hard cover).
- ewoods@hemel.bull.co.uk (Eoin Woods):
- 11. Fundamentals of Computing for Software Engineers by Eric S. Chan & Murat M.
- Tanik, Van Nostrand Reinhold.
- kayaalp@csvax.seas.smu.edu (Mehmet M. Kayaalp MD):
- 12. Classic and Object-Oriented Software Engineering, 3rd Edition, by Stephen
- R. Schach, Richard D. Irwin, Inc. (ISBN 0-256-18298-1), 1996. Advertised
- as senior/first year graduate level, emphasizing the object-oriented
- paradigm, metrics, CASE tools, testing, and maintenance.
- 13. Practical Software Engineering by Stephen R. Schach, Aksen Associates and
- Richard D. Irwin Inc. (ISBN 0-256-11455-2), 1992. Advertised as sophomore
- through senior level, emphasizing teams, maintenance, reuse, CASE tools.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: Periodicals on Software Engineering
- Date: 31 Jul 2002
-
- A. Professional Journals
- Meant for working professionals with technical backgrounds.
- 1. IEEE Software
- summary: often presents recent research work, but much more readably
- than typical research journals.
- publisher: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers)
- subscriptions: IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331,
- Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, USA
- 2. Software Engineering Notes
- summary: unrefereed newsletter; includes digest of comp.risks
- publisher: ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) SIGSOFT (Special
- Interest Group on Software engineering)
- subscriptions: ACM, 11 West 42d St, New York, NY 10036, USA
- 3. Software Maintenance News
- summary: monthly report on people and technology in maintenance; aimed
- at practitioners
- publisher: Software Maintenance News Inc, B10 Suite 237, 4546 El Camino
- Real, Los Altos, CA 94022, USA
- subscriptions: as above
- 4. Software Testing, Verification and Reliability
- summary: aimed at practitioners; dissemination of new techniques,
- methodologies and standards
- publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Baffins Lane, Chichester, West Sussex
- PO19 1UD, UK
- 5. The Software Practitioner (TSP)
- summary: started late 1990; meant for real practitioners
- publisher: Computing Trends, 1416 Sare Rd., Bloomington IN 47401 USA;
- voice/fax: 812-337-8047
- 6. Software Testing & Quality Engineering (at http://www.stqemagazine.com/)
- summary: Practical and relevent. Largely authored by practicing software
- QA and testing professionals.
- publisher: Software Quality Engineering (see http://www.sqe.com) since
- 1998; previously published as Software QA by Steve Whitchurch.
- B. Mixed Research and Practice
- 1. Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
- summary: refereed; intended for both researchers and practitioners;
- joint US/UK editorial board
- publisher: Wiley (see above)
- subscriptions: Journals Subscription Department, at above address
- 2. Software Engineering Journal (SEJ)
- summary: full spectrum of articles from practical experience to long-
- term research
- publisher: IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers) and BCS (British
- Computer Society); write to IEE Publication Sales, PO Box 96,
- Stevenage, Herts, SG1 2SD, United Kingdom.
- 3. Software: Practice and Experience
- summary: not always software engineering; good reputation for practice
- publisher: Wiley (see above)
- 4. The Software Quality Journal
- summary: academic research and industrial case studies and experience
- publisher: Chapman & Hall, Journals Promotion Department, North
- America:29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001-2291, USA. Europe:
- 2-6 Boundary Row, London SE1 8HN, UK
- C. Research Journals
- Meant for presenting recent research results.
- 1. Information and Software Technology (IST)
- summary: broad spectrum, much software engineering, software process,
- but also computer science topics.
- publisher: Butterworth-Heineman, Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford, UK
- 2. Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
- summary: main software engineering research journal
- publisher: IEEE (see above)
- 3. Transaction on Software Engineering Methodology (TOSEM)
- summary: first issue dated January 1992; not enough track record for an
- opinon yet.
- publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
- 4. Journal of Systems and Software
- summary: meant to be more practitioner-oriented than other research
- journals
- publisher: Elsevier
- D. Other magazines
- 1. Software
- summary: "For Managers of Enterprise-Wide Software Resources" primarily
- aimed at Management Information Systems (MIS) world
- publisher: Sentry Publishing Company, Inc, 1900 West Park Drive,
- Westborough, MA 01581, (508) 366-2031
- 2. Testing Techniques Newsletter
- summary: E-mailed on a monthly basis to support the publisher's
- customers and to provide information of general use to the testing
- community.
- publisher: Software Research, Inc., 625 Third Street, San Francisco,
- CA 94107-1997; Phone: (415) 957-1441; Toll Free: (800) 942-SOFT; FAX:
- (415) 957-0730; E-MAIL: ttn@soft.com.
-
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- Subject: Other sources of information
- Date: 21 Mar 2001
-
- Software Quality Engineering has a publication division called Single Source,
- Publications, Books, and Information for Software Practitioners and Managers:
-
- Software Quality Engineering -- Single Source
- 330 Corporate Way Suite 300
- Orange Park, Florida (FL) 32073
- Tel: 904-278-0707
- Toll Free: 800-423-8378
- Fax: 904-278-4380
- Email: sqeinfo@sqe.com
- Web: www.sqe.com
- They do regular reviews of most of the literature relevant to testing, s-eng,
- and management. The books which are deemed useful by the reviewers are
- purchased for reselling. Their catalog includes most of the literature that
- I've come across on Software Testing. One of the items in the catalog is a
- publication which the company puts together itself, The Testing Tools
- Reference Guide, a sort of catalog of tools that have passed certain criteria,
- (number of unit sold, at least three verifiable references, etc.) They charge
- $145.00 for this guide. This includes two bi-annual updates. I've found the
- guide very useful in tracking down vendors which specialize in CASE and
- testing tools, although it seems to be heavily biased towards IBM mainframe
- hardware and COBOL programming (shudder!). Each text is described and
- summarized I'm sure SQE would be happy to send catalogs free of charge and
- most of the prices seem reasonable. - Glenn Stowe glenn8@odie.cs.mun.ca
-
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- Subject: General reading for software engineers
- Date: 18 Oct 1999
- Originally collected by: cml@cs.UMD.EDU (Christopher Lott)
- Summary: responses to "what should every software engineering have read?"
-
- A. General
- 1. Read about 100 pages of comp.risks
- 2. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man-Month, 20th Anniversary
- Edition, Addison Wesley, 1995.
- 3. The anecdotal books of Robert L. Glass, from Computing Trends, P.O.Box
- 213, State College, PA 16804, including: "Tales of Computing Folk: Hot
- Dogs and Mixed Nuts", "The Universal Elixir and other Computing Projects
- Which Failed", "The Second Coming: More Computing Projects Which
- Failed", "The Power of Peonage", "Computing Catastrophes", "Computing
- Shakeout", "Software Folklore"
- 4. Richard H. Thayer and Merlin Dorfman (editors), Software Engineering,
- Second Edition, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1997.
- 5. Paul W. Oman & Ted G. Lewis, Milestones in Software Evolution, IEEE
- Computing Society, ISBN 0-8186-9033-X.
- 6. J.A. McDermid (editor), Software Engineer's Reference Book, Butterworth-
- Heinemann Ltd., 1991. ISBN No: 0 750 61040 9. Focuses on the
- foundations, and subject matter that is not volatile. The book is
- divided into three major parts: Theory and Mathematics; Methods,
- Techniques, and Technology; Principles of Applications. For a beginner,
- the first two parts are indispensible. It does not provide details of
- current research, but points an interested reader to the right sources.
- B. Programming in the large
- 1. Grady Booch, Software Engineering with Ada, second edition,
- Benjamin/Cummings, 1987
- 2. Bertrand Meyer. Object-oriented software construction, Second Edition.
- Prentice-Hall, 1997. Detailed information available at
- http://www.eiffel.com/doc/oosc.html.
- 3. David L. Parnas, On the Criteria to be Used in Decomposing Systems into
- Modules, Communications of the ACM 15,2 (December 1972).
- C. Programming in the small
- 1. Jon Louis Bentley, Writing Efficient Programs, Prentice-Hall, 1982.
- 2. Jon Bentley, Programming Pearls, Addison-Wesley, 1986.
- 3. Jon Bentley, More Programming Pearls, Addison-Wesley, 1988.
- 4. O.-J. Dahl, E.W. Dijkstra, C.A.R. Hoare, Structured Programming,
- Academic Press, 1972.
- 5. Brian W. Kernighan, and P.J. Plauger, Software Tools, Addison-Wesley,
- 1976.
- 6. Brian W. Kernighan & P.J. Plauger, The Elements of Programming Style,
- Second Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1978. ISBN 0-07-034207-5.
- D. Mathematical Approaches
- 1. Edsger W. Dijkstra, A Discipline of Programming, Prentice-Hall, 1976.
- 2. E.W.Dijkstra. Selected writings on computing: a personal perspective.
- Springer Verlag, 1982.
- 3. David Gries (editor), Programming methodology. A collection of articles
- by members of IFIP Working Group 2.3. Springer Verlag, 1978.
- E. Other
- 1. Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister, Peopleware : Productive Projects and
- Teams, 2nd Ed. Paperback 2nd edition (February 1, 1999) Dorset House;
- ISBN: 0932633439
- 2. Daniel P. Freedman and Gerald M. Weinberg, Handbook of Walkthoughs,
- Inspections and Technical Reviews, 3rd edition Dorset House Publishing,
- 1990, ISBN 0-932633-19-6. Originally published by Little, Brown &
- Company, 1982: ISBN 0-316-292826.
- 3. Tom Gilb, Principles of Software Engineering Management, Addison-Wesley,
- 1988, ISBN 0-201-19246-2
- 4. Glenford J. Myers, The Art of Software Testing, Wiley, 1979.
- 5. Herb Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial, Second Edition, MIT Press,
- 1981
- 6. Gerald M. Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming, Silver
- Anniversary Edition. ISBN: 0-932633-42-0, Dorset House Publishing, 1998
-
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- Subject: Cost Estimation
- Date: 6 Dec 1997
-
- 1. Lawrence Putnam and Ware Myers, "MEASURES FOR EXCELLENCE: Reliable Software
- on Time, Within Budget," Prentice-Hall, 1992, ISBN 0-13-567694-0.
- Suggested in Fall 1995 as the current standard by several correspondents.
- Constrains solutions to those that meet the user's objectives, such as
- cost, schedule, staff available, quality.
- 2. Barry W. Boehm, Software Engineering Economics, Prentice-Hall, 1981. This
- used to be the standard; it introduced the COCOMO model.
-
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- Subject: Formal Specification
- Date: 6 Dec 1997
-
- See also the comp.specification.z FAQ.
- 1. J.M.Spivey. "Understanding Z: a specification language and its formal
- semantics". Cambridge University Press, 1988.
- 2. David Lightfoot. "Formal Specification Using Z". MacMillan, 1991, ISBN
- 0-333-54408-0. A clear introduction to Z and the discrete mathematics that
- underlies it.
- 3. B.Potter, J.Sinclair & D.Till. "An introduction to formal specification
- and Z". Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1991.
- 4. D.Bjorner & C.B.Jones. "Formal Specification & Software Development",
- Prentice-Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1980.
- 5. N.Gehani & A.D.McGettrick (eds). "Software Specification Techniques",
- Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1986
- 6. I. van Horebeek & J.Lewi. "Algebraic Specifications in Software
- Engineering", Springer Verlag, 1989.
- 7. J.Bergstra, P.Klint & J.Heering. "Algebraic Specification", ACM Frontier
- Press Series. The ACM Press in co-operation with Addison-Wesley, 1989.
- 8. J.Wing. "A specifiers introduction to formal methods", IEEE Computer
- 23(9):8-24, 1990.
- 9. Prehn & Soetenel (eds). "Formal Software Development Methods, VDM'91",
- LNCS 551 and 552, Springer-Verlag.
-
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- Subject: Metrics
- Date: 6 Dec 1997
-
- A. Metrics - General
-
- Thanks especially to Horst Zuse, who sent his extensive bibliography on
- metrics. He has an extensive database with over 500 entries on metrics;
- contact ZUSE%DB0TUI11.BITNET@vm.gmd.de.
- 1. David N. Card and Robert L. Glass. Measuring Software Design Quality
- Prentice Hall, Engewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990
- 2. S.D. Conte, H.E. Dunsmore, V.Y. Shen. Software Engineering Metrics and
- Models. Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Menlo Park, 1984 ISBN:
- 0-8053-2162-4
- 3. Tom DeMarco. Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement and
- Estimation. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1982
- 4. T.Denvir, R.Herman and R.Whitty (Eds.). Proceedings of the
- International BCS-FACS Workshop: Formal Aspects of Measurement, May 5,
- 1991, South Bank Polytechnic, London, UK, Series edited by Professor
- C.J. van Rijsbergen, ISBN 3-540-19788-5. Springer Publisher, 1992, 259
- pages.
- 5. Reiner Dumke. Softwareentwicklung nach Ma`s - Sch`atzen - Messen -
- Bewerten, Vieweg Verlag, 1992.
- 6. Lem Ejiogu. Software Engineering with Formal Metrics. QED Information
- Sciences, 1991
- 7. N.E. Fenton, (Editor). Software Metrics: A Rigorous Approach, 1991
- United Kingdom: Chapman & Hall, 2-6 Boundary Row, London SE1 8HN, ISBN
- 0-412-40440-0. United States: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 115 5th Avenue,
- New York NY 10003, ISBN 0-442-31355-1.
- 8. Robert B. Grady and Deborah L. Caswell. Software Metrics: Establishing
- a Company-Wide Program, Prentice-Hall, 1987, ISBN 0-13-821844-7
- 9. Robert B. Grady. Practical Software Metrics for Project Management and
- Process Improvement. Prentice Hall 1992 ISBN 0-13-720384-5
- 10. M.H. Halstead. Elements of Software Science. New York, Elsevier North-
- Holland, 1977
- 11. S. Henry, D. Kafura, "Software Structure Metrics Based on Information
- Flow", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol.SE-7, No.5,
- September 1981.
- 12. IEEE. Standard Dictionary of Measures to Produce Reliable Software.
- The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 345 East
- 47th Street, New York. IEEE Standards Board, 1989
- 13. IEEE. Guide for the Use of Standard Dictionary of Measures to Produce
- Reliable Software. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics
- Engineers, Inc 345 East 47th Street, New York. IEEE Standard Board,
- Corrected Edition, October 23, 1989
- 14. T.J. McCabe, A Complexity Measure, IEEE Transactions on Software
- Engineering, VOL. SE-2, NO. 4, Dec. 1976.
- 15. Alan Perlis, Frederick Sayward, Mary Shaw. Software Metrics: An
- Analysis and Evaluation. The MIT Press, 1981
- 16. V.Y. Shen, S.D. Conte, H.E. Dunsmore, Software Science Revisited: A
- Critical Analysis of the Theory and Its Empirical Support, IEEE
- Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. SE-9, No. 2, March 1983.
- Abstract: a critical evaluation of Halstead's software science metric.
- 17. Martin Sheppard, Software Engineering Metrics, McGraw-Hill Book Company
- (UK) Limited, Shoppenhangers Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 2QL. ISBN
- 0-07-707410-6 (UK). Contains 24 selected papers; 1992. Tel: +44 (0)698
- 23431/2 Fax: +44 (0)698 770224
- 18. Horst Zuse, Software Complexity: Measures and Methods, de Gruyer (200
- Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, NY 10532 - 914/747-0110) 1991
- B. Metrics for object-oriented systems
- 1. Morris Kenneth L. Metrics for Object-Oriented Software Development
- Environments (master's thesis). 1989, MIT.
- 2. Rocacher, Daniel: Metrics Definitions for Smalltalk. Project ESPRIT
- 1257, MUSE WP9A, 1988.
- 3. Rocacher, Daniel: Smalltalk Measure Analysis Manual. Project ESPRIT
- 1257, MUSE WP9A, 1989.
- 4. Lake, Al: A Software Complexity Metric for C++. Annual Oregon Workshop
- on Software Metrics, March 22-24, 1992, Silver Falls, Oregon, USA.
- 5. Bieman, J.M.: Deriving Measures of Software Reuse in Object Oriented
- Systems. Technical Report #CS91-112, July 1991, Colorado State
- Universty, Fort Collins/ Colorado, USA.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
- Date: 6 Dec 1997
- Originally collected by: haim@taichi.uucp (24122-kilov)
-
- 1. Bertrand Meyer. Object-oriented software construction, Second Edition.
- Prentice-Hall, 1997. For the somewhat advanced - perhaps, with some
- programming maturity. Detailed information available at
- http://www.eiffel.com/doc/oosc.html.
- 2. B. Henderson-Sellers. A book of object-oriented knowledge. Prentice-Hall,
- 1992. This has quite a few viewgraphs in it!
- 3. Grady Booch. Object-oriented design with applications. Addison-Wesley,
- 1991.
- 4. Ivar Jacobson Object-Oriented Software Engineering. Addison-Wesley, 1992.
- This book gives a complete look at Object-orientation from requirement-
- analysis to last phase in design and implementation.
-
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- Subject: Programming Style
- Date: 6 Dec 1997
- Originally collected by: oman@cs.uidaho.edu (Paul W. Oman)
-
- 1. N. Anand (1988) "Clarify Function!" ACM SigPLAN Notices, 23(6), 69-79.
- Advocates the use of mnemonic names for entities in a system. Rules are
- presented for naming procedures, variable, pointers, etc.
- 2. S. Henry (1988) "A Technique for Hiding Proprietary Details While Providing
- Sufficient Information for Researchers; or, do you Recognize this Well-
- known Algorithm?," Journal of Systems and Software, 8(1), 3-11. Suggests
- encryption of variable names as part of a technique for encoding
- algorithms, while still providing sufficient information to researchers.
- 3. R. Brooks (1980) "Studying Programmer Behavior Experimentally: The Problems
- of Proper Methodology," Communications of the ACM, 23(4), 207-213.
- Discusses issues and tradeoffs in proper control of experiments involving
- computer programmers.
- 4. E. Thomas & P. Oman "A Bibliography of Programming Style Literature," ACM
- SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 25(2), Feb. 1990, pp. 7-16.
-
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- Subject: Real-Time Systems
- Date: 6 Dec 1997
- Originally collected by: jaws@sj.ate.slb.com (John Willmore)
-
- 1. Derek J. Hatley and Imtiaz A. Pirbhai. Strategies for Real-Time System
- Specification Dorset House, 1987
- 2. Paul Ward and Stephen Mellor. Structured Development for Real-Time Systems
- Yourdon Press, 1985
- 3. Bran Selic, Garth Gullekson and Paul Ward. Real-Time Object-Oriented
- Modeling, Wiley, 1994 (1-800-CALL-WILEY), ISBN 0471-59917-4. Supported by
- the ObjecTime CASE tool.
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- Subject: Requirements Analysis
- Date: 12 Apr 1999
-
- A. Requirements Analysis - General
- 1. Michael Jackson. Software Requirements & Specifications: A Lexicon of
- Practice, Principles, and Prejudices. Addison-Wesley, 1995. Very
- highly praised by several of my contacts - e.g. "has the highest ideas-
- to-pages ratio I've ever seen."
- 2. Special issue on requirements gathering, Communications of the ACM,
- Volume 38, #2, May 1995.
- 3. Al Davis, Software Requirements: Objects, Functions, & States.
- Prentice-Hall, 1993. A revision of #2 (below).
- 4. Al Davis, Software Requirements: Analysis and specification.
- Prentice/Hall, 1990. Has some treatment of all of the popular
- requirements analysis and specification methods including OOA,
- Structured Analysis, SREM, FSM, but not the "trendy" stuff (Information
- Engineering, JAD).
- 5. Donald C. Gause and Gerald M. Weinberg, Exploring Requirements: Quality
- before design. Dorset House Publishing, 353 West 12th Street, New York,
- NY 10014
- 6. Richard H. Thayer and Merlin Dorfman (editors), Software Requirements
- Engineering, Second Edition, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos,
- CA, 1997.
- 7. Benjamin L. Kovitz. Practical Software Requirements: A Manual of
- Content & Style. Manning Publications, 1998.
- B. Collaborative Requirements Analysis
- (thanks to Annie I. Anton, anton@cc.gatech.edu).
- 1. Palmer, J.D., Aiken, P. and Fields, N.A. "A Computer Supported
- Cooperative Work Environment for Requirements Engineering and Analysis",
- Proceedings of the Requirements Engineering and Analysis Workshop,
- Software Engineering Institute, March 12-14, 1991.
- 2. Palmer, J.D. and Aiken, P.H. "Utilizing Interactive Multimedia to
- Support Knowledge-based Development of Software Requirements",
- Proceedings of the 5th Annual RADC Knowledge-Based Software Assistant
- Conference, Syracuse, NY, September 24-28, 1990.
- 3. Marca, D. "Specifying Groupware Requirements From Direct Experience",
- Proc 6th International Workshop On Software Specification And Design,
- October 1991
- 4. Marca, D. "Augmenting SADT To Develop Computer-Supported Cooperative
- Work", Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
- Engineering; May 1991
- 5. Marca, D. "Experiences in Building Meeting Support Software",
- Proceedings of the 1st Groupware Technology Workshop; August 1989
- 6. Marca, D. "Specifying Coordinators: Guidelines for Groupware
- Developers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Software
- Specification and Design; May 1989
-
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- Subject: Software Process
- Date: 30 Oct 1996
- Originally collected by: cml@cs.umd.edu (Christopher Lott)
-
- 1. Watts S. Humphrey. Managing the Software Process. Addison-Wesley
- Publishing Co., Reading, Massachusetts, 1989; Chapters 13--15, 18.
- 2. Watts S. Humphrey. A Discipline for Software Engineering. Addison Wesley,
- SEI Series in Software Engineering, 1995, ISBN 0-201-54610-8. Presents a
- method for applying project management techniques to personal methods of
- software engineering.
- 3. Bill Curtis, Marc I. Kellner and Jim Over. "Process Modeling,"
- Communications of the ACM, Sept 92, Vol 35, No 9, 75-90.
- 4. Victor R. Basili. "Iterative Enhancement: A Practical Technique for
- Software Development". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. v.~SE-1,
- n.~4, December 1975, pp.~390--396.
- 5. Victor R. Basili and H. Dieter Rombach. "The TAME Project: Towards
- Improvement-Oriented Software Environments", IEEE Transactions on Software
- Engineering, v. SE-14, n. 6, June 1988, pp.~758--773.
- 6. Victor R. Basili, "Software Development: A Paradigm for the Future",
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual International Computer Science and
- Applications Conference, Orlando, Florida, September 1989, pp.~471--485.
- 7. Barry W. Boehm. "A Spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement",
- IEEE Computer, v.~21, n.~5, May 1988, pp.~61--72.
- 8. Frank DeRemer and Hans H. Kron. "Programming-in-the-Large Versus
- Programming-in-the-Small", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
- v.~SE-2, n.~2, June 1976, pp.~80--86.
- 9. M. M. Lehman. "Process Models, Process Programs, Programming Support",
- Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Software Engineering,
- Monterey, CA, March 1987, pp.~14--16.
- 10. Leon Osterweil. "Software Processes are Software Too", Proceedings of the
- Ninth International Conference on Software Engineering, Monterey, CA, March
- 1987, pp.~2--13.
- 11. Winston W. Royce. "Managing the Development of Large Software Systems:
- Concepts and Techniques", 1970 WESCON Technical Papers, v.~14, Western
- Electronic Show and Convention, Los Angeles, Aug. 25-28, 1970; Los Angeles:
- WESCON, 1970, pp.~A/1-1 -- A/1-9; Reprinted in Proceedings of the Ninth
- International Conference on Software Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, ACM
- Press, 1989, pp.~328--338.
- 12. Peter H. Feiler and Watts S. Humphrey. "Software Process Development and
- Enactment: Concepts and Definitions", Software Engineering Institute,
- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1991.
- 13. Watts S. Humphrey. "Session Summary: Review of the State-of-the-Art",
- Proceedings of the Fifth International Software Process Workshop,
- Kennebunkport, Maine, USA, 10-13 October 1989, IEEE Computer Society Press,
- Los Alamitos, CA, 1990.
- 14. Gail E. Kaiser. "Rule-Based Modeling of the Software Development Process",
- Proceedings of the 4th International Software Process Workshop,
- Moretonhampstead, Devon, UK, 11-13 May 1988, ACM Press, Baltimore, MD,
- 1989, pp.~84--86.
- 15. Takuya Katayama. "A Hierarchical and Functional Software Process
- Description and its Enaction", Proceedings of the Ninth International
- Conference on Software Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, ACM Press, 1989,
- pp.~343--352.
- 16. Marc I. Kellner and H. Dieter Rombach. "Comparisons of Software Process
- Descriptions", Proceedings of the Sixth International Software Process
- Workshop, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, 29-31 October 1990, IEEE Computer
- Society Press, 1991.
- 17. Jayashree Ramanathan and Soumitra Sarkar. "Providing Customized Assistance
- for Software Lifecycle Approaches", IEEE Transactions on Software
- Engineering, v.~14, n.~6, June 1988, pp.~749--757.
- 18. H. Dieter Rombach. "An Experimental Process Modeling Language: Lessons
- Learned from Modeling a Maintenance Environment", Proceedings of the
- Conference on Software Maintenance - 1989, IEEE, October 16-19, 1989.
- 19. H. Dieter Rombach. "MVP--L: A Language for Process Modeling
- In--the--Large", University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer
- Studies Technical Report UMIACS--TR--91--96, CS--TR--2709, Department of
- Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742.
- 20. Stanley M. Sutton, Jr. "APPL/A: A Prototpye Language for Software Process
- Programming", Department of Computer Science Report CU-CS-448-89,
- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1989.
-
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- Subject: Software Testing
- Date: 6 Dec 1997
-
- The original request that prompted the posting of this information asked for
- recent work, not buried in a Software Engineering tome.
- 1. Boris Beizer, Software Testing Techniques, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990 (2nd
- edition) ISBN 0-442-20672-0. 503 pages, $43. Has 37-page annotated
- bibliography of references.
- 2. Cheatham and Mellinger, Testing Object Oriented Software Systems,
- Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SCS Conference
- 3. William C. Hetzel, The Complete Guide to Software Testing, Second edition,
- QED Information Services INC, 1988. ISBN 0-89435-242-3
- 4. Testing Techniques Newsletter (see periodicals)
-
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- Subject: User Interfaces
- Date: 2 May 2002
-
- See Gary Perlman's suggested readings at http://hcibib.org/readings.html; there
- is a huge Human-Computer Interaction bibliography at http://hcibib.org.
- Contact address: director@hcibib.org.
- --
- "Yo' ideas need to be thinked befo' they are say'd" - Ian Lamb, age 3.5
- http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~dalamb/ qucis->cs to reply (it's a long story...)
-