CS169 Fall 1998 Software Engineering Recommended Books

Here are a list of books and papers on various aspects of Software Engineering that I've found very enlightening. The links for books go to Amazon.com, while any paper links go to that paper. These books are not required reading, but are here if you have any additional interest in any particular area in software engineering.

A lot of these I also have in my office. Feel free to drop by and borrow any that you want (Soda 525).

General Software Engineering
• The Mythical Man-Month : Essays on Software Engineering, by Fred Brooks
• Software Engineering (5th ed) by Ian Sommerville

Software Process
• The Capability Maturity Model, by Mark Paulk et al.
• B. Boehm, “A Spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement,” IEEE Computer, Vol. 21, No. 5, May 1988, pp. 61-72.
• B. Boehm, "Software Risk Management: Principles and Practices," IEEE Software, Vol.. 8, No. 1, January 1991, pp. 32-41.

Project Management
• Rapid Development : Taming Wild Software Schedules, by Steve McConnell
• Software Project Survival Guide, by Steve McConnell
• Debugging the Development Process, by Steve Maguire
• Peopleware, by Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister

Planning
• Albert L. Lederer and Jayesh Prasad, "Nine Management Guidelines for Better Cost Estimating," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 35, No. 2, February 1992, pp. 51-59.
• B. Boehm, “Software Engineering Economics,” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 1984, pp. 4-21.

Design
• A Pattern Language : Towns, Buildings, Construction, by Christopher Alexander
• Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, by Steve McConnell
• Object-Oriented Software Construction, by Bertrand Meyer
• Design Patterns, by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides

Metrics and Estimation
• A Discipline for Software Engineering by Watts Humphrey

Programming
• The Psychology of Computer Programming, by Gerald Weinberg
• Writing Solid Code, by Steve Maguire
• Programming Pearls, by Jon Bentley
• More Programming Pearls : Confessions of a Coder, by Jon Bentley

User Interface Design
• Designing the User Interface, by Ben Schneiderman
• Human-Computer Interaction, by Dix, Finlay, Abowd, and Beale
• Interactive System Design, by William Newman and Mik Lamming

Real World
• Microsoft Secrets, by Michal Cusumano and Richard Selby
• Crossing the Chasm, by Geoffrey Moore
• What They Still Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School, by Mark McCormack
• Death March: The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving 'Mission Impossible' Projects, by Ed Yourdon

Future of Software Engineering
• Mary Shaw, "Prospects for an Engineering Discipline of Software," IEEE Software, Vol. 7, No. 6, November 1990, pp. 15-24.
• Frederick Brooks, Jr, "No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering," IEEE Computer, Vol. 20, No. 4, April 1987, pp. 10-19.
• Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer, by Ed Yourdon