Required Text

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

Other Relevant Texts

Process

• The Mythical Man Month (20th Anniversary edition), by Fred Brooks Jr. (Addison-Wesley), 1995
• Debugging the Development Process, by Steve Maguire (Microsoft Press).
• A Discipline for Software Engineering, Watts S. Humphrey (Addition-Wesley), 1995.
• Introduction to the Personal Software Process, Watts S. Humphrey (Addition-Wesley), 1997.

Requirements and Specification

• The Way of Z, Practical Programming with Formal Methods, Jonathan Jacky, (Cambridge University Press), 1997.
• The B-Book, Assigning Meanings to Programs, J-R Abrial, (Cambridge University Press), 1996.

Architecture

• Software Architecture, Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline, by Mary Shaw and David Garlan, (Prentice Hall), 1996.
• Software Reuse, Architecture, Process and Organization for Business Success, Ivar Jacobson, Martin Griss, Patrik Jonsson, (Addison Wesley), 1997.

Design

• Object-Oriented Modeling and Design, James Rumbaugh, Michael Blaha, William Premerlani, Frederick Eddy, William Lorensen, (Prentice Hall), 1991.
• Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, with Applications, Grady Booch, (Benjamin/Cummings), 1994.
• Design Patterns, Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides, (Addison-Wesley), 1995.

Coding

• Writing Solid Code, by Steve Maguire (Microsoft Press), 1994.
• Code Complete, A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, by Steve McConnell (Microsoft Press), 1993.

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William Y. Arms
August 16, 1999