Outline of Software Engineering - Notable Publications

Notable Publications

• About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design by Alan Cooper, about user interface design. ISBN 0-7645-2641-3
• The Capability Maturity Model by Watts Humphrey. Written for the Software Engineering Institute, emphasizing management and process. (See Managing the Software Process ISBN 0-201-18095-2)
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond about open source development.
• The Decline and Fall of the American Programmer by Ed Yourdon predicts the end of software development in the U.S. ISBN 0-13-191958-X
• Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides. ISBN 0-201-63361-2
• Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck ISBN 0-321-27865-8
• "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" by Edsger Dijkstra.
• Internet, Innovation and Open Source:Actors in the Network — First Monday article by Ilkka Tuomi (2000) source
• The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks, about project management. ISBN 0-201-83595-9
• Object-oriented Analysis and Design by Grady Booch. ISBN 0-8053-5340-2
• Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister. ISBN 0-932633-43-9
• The pragmatic engineer versus the scientific designer by E. W. Dijkstra
• Principles of Software Engineering Management by Tom Gilb about evolutionary processes. ISBN 0-201-19246-2
• The Psychology of Computer Programming by Gerald Weinberg. Written as an independent consultant, partly about his years at IBM. ISBN 0-932633-42-0
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, and Don Roberts. ISBN 0-201-48567-2
• The Pragmatic Programmer: from journeyman to master by Andrew Hunt, and David Thomas. ISBN 0-201-61622-X

See also:

• Important publications in software engineering in CS.