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Books

There is no course textbook.  Here are some general books on software engineering:

• Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month. Addison-Wesley, 1972.

• Sommerville, Ian, Software Engineering, Fifth Edition. Addison-Wesley , 1996.

• Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence, Software Engineering Theory and Practice, second edition.  Prentice- Hall 2001. 

• Grady Booch, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications, second edition. Benjamin/Cummings 1994. 

• Rob Pooley, Perdita Stevens, Using UML Software Engineering with Objects and Components. Addison-Wesley 1999.

• Bernd Bruegge and Allen H. Dutoit, Object-Oriented Software Engineering Using UML, Patterns and Java, Second Edition. Prentice Hall, 2004.

Readings

The Process of Software Development

• Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month. Addison-Wesley, 1972

This is the classical text on software engineering. It is short, witty and still very relevant after thirty years.

Feasibility Studies

• Daniel Huttenlocher and Daniel Spoonhower, Principles and Practices of Software Development [Draft. Please do not circulate.]

Legal Aspects of Software Development

Requirements

The books by Sommerville and Pfleeger have material on requirements analysis and specification.

The book by Bruegge and Dutoit has a good section on use cases.

The following are two books on formal specification:

• Ben Potter, Jane Sinclair, David Till, An Introduction to Formal Specification and Z (Prentice Hall) 1991.

• Jonathan Jacky, The Way of Z. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Usability

• Mitchell Kapor, A Software Design Manifesto. Dr. Dobbs Journal, 1991. http://hci.stanford.edu/bds/1-kapor.html

System Architecture

• Mary Shaw and David Garlan, Software architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline. Prentice Hall, 1996.

Design

The books by Booch, Pooley and Bruegge cover object-oriented design. The following book describes the Unified Modeling Language (UML):

• Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, The Unified Modeling Language. Addison-Wesley 1999.

The standard book on design patterns is:

• E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson, and J. Vlissides, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison-Wesley, 1994.

Reliability and Performance

People

Business Aspects of Software Engineering

Risk