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• Classic Mistakes Enumerated

  http://www.stevemcconnell.com/rdenum.htm
  Description of 36 ineffective development practices: people-related, process-related, product-related, technology-related. (Sample chapter from Steve McConnell's book Rapid Development.)

• High-Pressure Steam Engines and Computer Software

  http://sunnyday.mit.edu/steam.pdf
  Software safety. Parallels between the early development of high-pressure steam engines and software engineering that we can apply to the use of computers in complex systems.

• Medical Devices: The Therac-25

  http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf
  Case study of a well known software error.

• Nine Steps to Delivering Defect-Free Software

  http://www.tenberry.com/errfree/steps.htm
  By a software developer and consultant with over 30 years experience.

• On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules

  http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=361623
  One of the classic articles leading to modern software engineering, by D.L. Parnas.

• Orphans Preferred

  http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19991222/mcconnell_01.htm
  Characteristics of software developers - personality type, demographics, age, education, attitudes.

• Seven Principles Of Software Development

  http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SevenPrinciplesOfSoftwareDevelopment
  Emphasizes "soft" issues - attitude, approach.

• Sure It Works, But Is It Beautiful: The Relationship Between Software Aesthetics and Quality

  http://www.chc-3.com/pub/beautifulsoftware.htm
  Some aspects of the relationship between quality and aesthetics (beauty) in software, using architecture analogies.

• Survival Crib Notes: NASA's Success Checklist

  http://www.stevemcconnell.com/sgcrib.htm
  9 Dos and 8 Don'ts for software project success, from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. (Sample chapter from Steve McConnell's book Software Project Survival Guide.)

 

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