A Wide Variety of Information Sources on Software Engineering and the Software Process Are Available on the Internet

Most software engineering textbooks consider traditional process models in some detail. Books

by Sommerville (Software Engineering, 8th ed., Addison-Wesley, 2006), Pfleeger and Atlee

(Software Engineering, 3d ed., Prentice-Hall, 2005), and Schach (Object-Oriented and Classical

Software Engineering, 7th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2006) consider traditional paradigms and discuss

their strengths and weaknesses. Glass (Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, Prentice-Hall,

2002) provides an unvarnished, pragmatic view of the software engineering process. Although

not specifically dedicated to process, Brooks (The Mythical Man-Month, 2d ed., Addison-Wesley,

1995) presents age-old project wisdom that has everything to do with process.

Firesmith and Henderson-Sellers (The OPEN Process Framework: An Introduction, AddisonWesley, 2001) present a general template for creating “flexible, yet discipline software

processes” and discuss process attributes and objectives. Madachy (Software Process Dynamics,

Wiley-IEEE, 2008) discusses modeling techniques that allow the interrelated technical and

social elements of the software process to be analyzed. Sharpe and McDermott (Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development, Artech House, 2001) present

tools for modeling both software and business processes.

Lim (Managing Software Reuse, Prentice Hall, 2004) discusses reuse from a manager’s

perspective. Ezran, Morisio, and Tully (Practical Software Reuse, Springer, 2002) and Jacobson,

Griss, and Jonsson (Software Reuse, Addison-Wesley, 1997) present much useful information on

component-based development. Heineman and Council (Component-Based Software Engineering, Addison-Wesley, 2001) describe the process required to implement component-based

systems. Kenett and Baker (Software Process Quality: Management and Control, Marcel Dekker,

1999) consider how quality management and process design are intimately connected to one

another.

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