Web Links for CS3500

Software Engineering

• What is Software Engineering? ACM Computing Careers
• Software Engineering (Wikipedia)
• Software Design (Wikipedia)
• Software Dev Process Models (Wikipedia)
• History of Software Engineering (Wikipedia)

Software Engineering Textbook Resources

• Sommerville's Software Engineering Book Website (10e)
  • All the slides
  • Case studies
  • New in 10th edition
  • Online videos
  • Online chapters (26-31)
  • Online sections (#25)
• Sommerville 9th editon Website
• Software Engineering: Theory and Practice (Pfleeeger)
  • Online resources
  • All slides

Software Engineering General Resources

• Standard SE Vocab (IEEE/ISO)
• Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK Guide)
• ObjectMentor, Robert "Uncle Bob" C Martin's old Website

Software Project Planning

• Software Project Management Tutorial
• COCOMO Home
• COCOMO at Softstar
• COCOMO II Online tool
• Risk Management
• Risk Information Sheet Builder
• Planning Poker

UML

• UML Tutorial
• UML Guide
• OMG UML Resource Page
• Introduction to the Diagrams of UML 2.X

Agile

• Manifesto for Agile Software Development
  • Commentary on The Agile Manifesto (Martin)
• scrum.org
• Scrum Guides
• Agile Modeling (Scott Ambler)
• Agile Alliance
• Guide to Agile Practices

Tools

• ArgoUML (only UML 1.4)
• Papyrus
• StarUML (Evaluation copy)
• Plant UML
• UML Designer
• UMLet (only UML 1.4)
• Dia (only basic UML 1.4)

History of Software Engineering

• First Software Engineering Conference Report
• Early history of software engineering (Glass)

Software Disasters Case Studies

• Therac 25 Incident
  • Medical Devices: The Therac-25, N. Leveson, 1995
  • An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents, Leveson & Turner, 1995
  • CumputingCases.org Case Study Materials
• Ariane 5 Disaster
  • Sommerville Case Study
  • ARIANE 5 Flight 501 Failure Report by the Inquiry Board
  • A Bug and a Crash
  • Ariane 5 at esa.int
  • The Ariane 5 explosion as seen by a software engineer, R. Baber, 1997.
  • Design by Contract: The Lessons of Ariane ,J.-M. Jezequel, IR and B. Meyer, 1997.
  • Ariane 5: Who Dunnit? B. Nuseibeh, 1997. [access from within UCC only]
  • Videos:
    • ariane 5 crash
    • ariane 30th birthday
• The Patriot Missile Failure
• Peter G. Neumann's Risks

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