Software Engineering Resources
	Software Engineering Practice Practice is a broad array of concepts, principles, methods, and tools that you must consider as software is planned and developed. It represents the details—the technical considerations and how to’s—that are below the surface of the software process—the things that you’ll need to actually build high-quality computer software Two topics categories are considered: Software Engineering Practice Concepts, Principles and Methods Patterns Books Software Engineering Practice Software engineering overview A general overview of the subject at Wikipedia. Software Engineering Practice - 1 Brad Appleton's comprehensive collection of software engineering links. Addressed virtually every aspect of the practice. Highly recommended. Software Engineering Practice - 2 Software Engineering Practice - 3 A categorized and very comprehensive hotlist developed by Dick Botting at California State University, San Bernadino. Highly recommended. Software engineering concepts links Use SE links presented for use in an MIT course. A Survey of Practice Pointers to process and practice topics that range from agile methods to design methods and paradigms. Top 30 Software Engineering Practices A list of important practices. Best Software Engineering Practices A list of useful papers on SE practice. Software's Ten Essentials One a Steve McConnell's excellent "best practices" columns in IEEE Software. Software Engineering - Best Practices A blog dedicated to new trends in Software Engineering and best practices. pdf: Software Engineering Best Practices A useful powerpoint presentation. Best Practice Software Engineering This site contain pointers to a wide variety of SE best practices including worthwhile examples. Nick's 20 Rules of Software Engineering Out of the mouth of babes: A student's view. Good News and Bad News About Software Engineering Practice From this commentary: "In fact, despite incrementally embracing some good ideas, commercial software technologies overall have regressed in the sense that they have become so complicated that the ill effects of their complexity easily outweigh the isolated benefits offered by these incremental improvements. Significant additional progress might have to wait for existing approaches to collapse under their own weight." Software Engineering Theory and Practice Gap A contrarian view: "In a never ending parade of Software Engineering theory and methodologies, one thing remains for sure - they seem to work for YOUR project only marginally and you always seem to tinker around and create your own if you want to be successful." Software Engineering Institute (SEI) The center of the software engineering world —papers, commentary, resources and the CMM/CMMI. Highly recommended. SIGSOFT The ACM special interest group on software engineering. News, publications and conference announcements. Science and Engineering Encyclopedia A useful source for quick definitions of many computing topics. Concepts, principles and methods • Concepts Top Ten Software Engineering Concepts. A downloadable presentation by Ed Yourdon, one of the most widely-known commentators on the subject. Software Engineering - Reason and a Concept! A brief commentary. Software Engineering concepts A survey of a few important concepts. Ten Essentials for Software Engineering Steve McConnell defines 10 essential practices. Recommended. Software Engineering Concepts-Class Notes Class notes prepared by Professor Nancy Leveson at MIT. Software Engineering - Concepts and Design Principles A downloadable white paper. The Real World (or at least one interpretation of it) A very readable and enjoyable excerpt from Ellen Ullman's book, Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents. • Principles and Methods Principles of Software Engineering A worthwhile essay on a number of important SE principles. Software Engineering Principles An editorial comment by Steve McConnell in IEEE Software. Recommended. Seven Principles David Hooker's 7 principles of good software development. SPMN Lessons Learned The SPMN has developed a collection of concise lessons learned about virtually every facet of software engineering practice. Highly recommended. Software Engineering - Articles and Commentary 29 articles on a variety of software engineering topics. Software Engineering Methods - 1 A brief taxonomy of software engineering methods. Software Engineering Methods - 2 Literate Programming Commentary, articles, examples, downloads of good software engineering practice. SEI Software Engineering Glossary If you need to understand terminology, this is the place to look. A software engineering cartoon Building a child's rubber tire swing. Patterns Note: Specific patterns for analysis, design, testing, and other areas of software engineering practice may be found under the appropriate topic listing within RSP&A software engineering resources. Also see our page, Patterns-Based Design. Software Patterns Guest editorial for the CACM, Special Issue on Patterns and Pattern Languages Patterns and Software: Essential Concepts and Terminology An extensive list of patterns concepts and resources. Recommended. Christopher Alexander: The Timeless Way of Building Alexander's seminal paper on patterns. Recommended. History Of Patterns A history with many important resource links. The Software Patterns Criteria Proposed definitions for evaluating software pattern quality Patterns Concepts and Terminology Brad Appleton has written one of the best discussions of patterns available on the Web. Very thorough and readble. Highly recommended. Patterns Overview A brief discussion of patterns as a problem solving discipline. Software Patterns A somewhat dated but still important CACM editorial that discusses the values that motivate patterns users. Pattern-Based Software Engineering An overview presented as a slide presentation. Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools Microsoft's view on the subject. pdf: Pattern Oriented Software Development: Moving Seamlessly from Requirements to Architecture This paper discusses "an approach not only leads to highly flexible and reusable design solutions, but also provides traceability of requirements in design solutions making maintenance less tedious." Books Customer communication is a critically important activity in software engineering, yet few practitioner’s spend any time reading about it. . The following books provide useful insight: To Satisfy and Delight Your Customer Managing Expectations Customer Centered Products: Creating Successful Products Through Smart Requirements Management Effective Requirements Practices Requirements Engineering: Processes and Techniques Communication and planning concepts and principles are considered in many project management books. Useful project management offerings include: Essentials of Software Project Management Effective Project Management: Traditional, Adaptive, Extreme Lean Project Management: Eight Principles For Success Software Project Management Applied Software Project Management Software Project Management The Software Project Manager’s Handbook Software Project Survival Guide Principles of Software Engineering Management Virtually every book on software engineering contains a useful discussion on concepts and principles for analysis, design and testing. In addition to Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, a number of other offering are notable: Swebok: Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering Software Engineering: Theory and Practice (2nd Edition) Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering Software Engineering eighth edition Modeling concepts and principles are considered in many books dedicated to requirements analysis and/or software design. Among them are: The Art of Software Modeling Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML Business Modeling With UML: Business Patterns at Work Effective Requirements Practices emphasizes a “joint team” of customers and developers who develop requirements collaboratively. Software Requirements presents many key requirement engineering and requirements management practices. Requirements Engineering: Processes and Techniques discusses “elicitation” concepts and techniques and other requirement engineering principles. The Design of Everyday Things is must reading for every software engineer who intends to do design work. Bringing Design to Software is an excellent collection of essays that address practical issues for software design. Software for Use presents the concepts associated with “user centered design.” Tog on Software Design presents a worthwhile philosophical discussion of the nature of design and the impact of decisions on quality and a team’s ability to produce software that provides great value to its customer. Model-Driven Software Development: Technology, Engineering, Management Hundreds of books address one or more elements of the construction activity. Among the best are: The Elements of Programming Style is a classic text on programming style Code Complete presents pragmatic guidelines for practical software construction Programming Pearls suggests a wide variety of programming pearls The Art of Computer Programming is a classic three volume series on the art of programming The Pragmatic Programmer suggests pragmatic programming guidelines. The testing literature has blossomed over the past decide. Among offerings that present important testing concepts and principles and much pragmatic guidance are: The Art of Software Testing (a classic) How to Break Software Lessons Learned in Software Testing The Craft of Software Testing