Web Links on Software Engineering

Software Engineering Book Resources

• Larman's Applying UML and Patterns Website
  • Chapters 2, 5 and 6 free
• Sommerville's Software Engineering Book Website (10e latest)
  • All the slides
  • Case studies
  • Online chapters including chapter on Process Improvement (26)
  • Online sections
• Sommerville's Engineering Software Products Book Website

Software Engineering General

• Software Engineering (Wikipedia)
• Software Design (Wikipedia)
• Software Dev Process Models (Wikipedia)
• History of Software Engineering (Wikipedia)
• Standard SE Vocab (IEEE/ISO)
• Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK Guide)
• Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
• CMMI Institute
• Martin Fowler's Website (lots of stuff here)

UML

• OMG UML Resource Page
• What is UML (OMG)
• UML (Wikipedia)
• UML 2 Overview (Sparx Systems)
• Introduction to the Diagrams of UML 2.X (Scott Ambler)
• Excellent Website on UML (lots of examples)
• Good resource on modelling and tools

Software Process

• OMG's MDA
• Are You Ready For the MDA?
• Personal Software Process

DevOps

• What is DevOps (Amazon)
• DevOps (Wikipedia)

Object-Oriented Software Design

• Principles Of OOD (SOLID)
• GRASP (wikipedia)
• CRC Cards

Design Patterns

• Design Patterns in Simple Examples
• Non-software examples of software design patterns (access within UCC for license)
• Portland Pattern Repository
• Anti Patterns
• 101 Design Patterns

Refactoring

• Refactoring To Patterns Catalog (Kerievsky)
• Refactoring Catalogue (Fowler)
• Refactoring (SourceMaking)

Reading: Some influencial papers in Software Engineering.

See also the Carnegie Melon Canon in Software Engineering: The seminal papers in software engineering

1. Go To Statement Considered Harmful (Dijkstra) 1968
2. First Software Engineering Conference Report (Naur and Randell eds.) 1968
3. Waterfall model (Royce) 1970
4. On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules (Parnas) 1972
5. Designing Software for Ease of Extension and Contraction (Parnas) 1979
6. Software aspects of strategic defense systems (Parnas) 1985
7. No Silver Bullet (Brooks) 1986
   • Reply: Biting the Silver Bullet (Harel) 1992
8. A Spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement (Boehm) 1986/1988 republished
9. Executable object modeling with statecharts (Harel) 1996
10. Using Pattern Languages for Object-Oriented Programs (Beck and Cunningham) 1987
11. Characterizing the Software Process: A Maturity Framework (Humphrey) 1988.
12. A Laboratory For Teaching Object-Oriented Thinking (Beck and Cunningham) 1989
13. Reverse engineering and design recovery: a taxonomy (Chikofsky and Cross II) 1990
14. Issues in Requirements Elicitation (Christel and Kang) 1992
15. A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design (Chidamber and Kemerer) 1994
16. The 4+ 1 View Model of Architecture (Kruchten) 1995
17. N degrees of separation: multi-dimensional separation of concerns (Tarr) 1999

Software Disasters Case Studies

• Medical Devices: The Therac-25, N. Leveson, 1995
• An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents, Leveson & Turner, 1995

• 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.
• Video: Ariane 5 crash

• The Patriot Missile Failure
• Peter G. Neumann's Risks