Links to useful software engineering web sites.

This page lists all the links to other web sites that are found in our book. Please inform us if any of these links become stale. We will edit this list regularly, to keep it up to date. We also welcome suggestions for new links.

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• Chapter 1 - Software Engineering in General, and the Engineering Profession
  • IEEE Software, www.computer.org/software/

  • IEEE Computer. www.computer.org/computer/

  • Communications of the ACM, www.acm.org

  • The Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK), www.swebok.org

  • The ACM/IEEE software engineering code of ethics: www.acm.org/serving/se/code.htm

  • The Community for Software Engineers, www.software-engineer.org.

  • Netscape's Software Engineering site (URL in the book moved)

  • New: OpenHere.com's Software Engineering page: Many links to software engineering sites

  • The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University: www.sei.cmu.edu

  • Robert Pressman, Software Engineering, a Practitioner's Approach, www.mhhe.com/engcs/compsci/pressman/

  • Stephen R. Schach, Classical and Object Oriented Software Engineering, www.mhhe.com/engcs/compsci/schach/

  • Greatest achievements of engineering: www.greatachievements.org

  • Engineering Council (UK): www.engc.org.uk/ (URL and organization name changed from what was in first few printings of the book)

  • Professional Engineers Ontario: www.peo.on.ca

  • National Society of Professional Engineers (US): www.nspe.org

  • General Engineering Resources: www.qozi.com/engineering/

  •   Google search for topics on software engineering and the engineering profession.

• Chapter 2 - Object Orientation and Java
  • C. Thomas Wu, An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming with Java: www.drcaffeine.com

  • Bruce Eckel, Thinking in Java: http://www.bruceeckel.com/Books (URL changed slightly)

  • Judith Bishop, Java Gently: Programming Principles Explained: javagently.cs.up.ac.za/jg3e/

  • Sun's official web site: java.sun.com

  • The Java Tutorial: //java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial

  • JavaDoc: java.sun.com/javadoc

  • JavaWorld, an on-line magazine about Java: www.javaworld.com/javaworld (URL changed slightly from what is in the book)

  • Tutorials from IBM: www.ibm.com/java/education/intro/courseoptions.htm

  • Borland JBuilder: Borland Corporation: www.borland.com/

  • CodeWarrior: metrowerks.com

  • IBM VisualAge for Java: www.ibm.com/visualage/vajava/

  • Microsoft Java tools: microsoft.com/java

  •   Google search for topics on object oriented programming and Java.

• Chapter 3 - Reuse and the OCSF Framework
  • ReNewsWWW: frakes.cs.vt.edu/renews.html

  • C. McClure, Software Reuse Techniques: Adding Reuse to the System Development Proces: www.reusability.com

  • Yahoo software reuse page

  • The Living Internet: livinginternet.com

  • The Webopedia entry for client-server architecture

  • Information about your network connection: http://privacy.net/analyze/

  •   Google search for topics on software reuse and reusability.

  •   Google search for topics on the client server architecture.

• Chapter 4 - Requirements
  • The Requirements Engineering Specialists Group of the British Computer Society: www.resg.org.uk This has links to many other web resources on requirements.

  • IEEE Software Engineering Standards: www.standards.ieee.org/software/index.html

  • NEW: Alan Davis's very extensive list of reference on requiremments engineering: http://www.uccs.edu/~adavis/reqbib.html

  •   Google search for topics on software requirements and requirements engineering.

• Chapter 5 - UML and Class Diagrams
  • Cetus Links on UML: www.cetus-links.org/oo_uml.html

  • The UML Bibliography: www.db.informatik.uni-bremen.de/umlbib

  • The Object Management Group: Home of the UML Specification: www.omg.org

  • Rational Rose: www.rational.com

  • NEW: Rational's UML Resource Conter

  • Object by Design's list of UML tools: www.objectsbydesign.com/tools/umltools_byCompany.html

  • ObjectPlant for the Macintosh: www.arctaedius.com/ObjectPlant/

  • ArgoUML, an open source project: argouml.tigris.org

  • NEW: SmartDraw - A tool you can use to draw UML diagrams

  •   Google search for topics on UML.

  •   Google search for topics on UML tools.

  •   Google search for topics on class diagrams and object-oriented analysis.

• Chapter 6 - Patterns
  • The Patterns Home Page: hillside.net/patterns/

  • Brad Appleton's description of patterns: www.enteract.com/~bradapp/docs/patterns-intro.html

  •   Google search for topics on patterns.

• Chapter 7 - Human Factors
  • The User Interface Hall of Shame www.iarchitect.com/shame.htm. This valuable site includes some truly hillarious examples of bad user interface design from real applications. Every software engineer should visit and learn from this site.

  • www.useit.com Jacob NielsenŐs Personal Web Site: This is a very rich source of information related to Usability. Jacob Nielsen is probably the best known author and speaker in the field of user interface design.

  • Usable Web: www.usableweb.com

  • The Usability Professionals Association: www.UPAssoc.org

  • S. Fowler, GUI Design Handbook,

  •   Google search for topics on use cases and user interfaces.

• Chapter 8 - Dynamic Modelling
  • D. Harel and M. Politi, Modeling Reactive Systems with Statecharts: The STATEMATE Approach,

  • R.J.A. Buhr, and R. Casselman, Use Case Maps for Object-Oriented Systems: www.usecasemaps.org

  • The SDL Forum Society: www.sdl-forum.org. This organization is the custodian of SDL (Specification and Description Language) as well as Message Sequence Charts, which are similar to sequence charts.

  • Petri Nets World: www.daimi.au.dk/PetriNets/ Petri nets are a classical way of expressing behaviour. The notation in UML for forks, joins and rendezvous has its origins with Petri nets.

  •   Google search for topics on sequence diagrams.

  •   Google search for topics on state diagrams.

• Chapter 9 - Design
  • Software architecture resources on the web.

  • Bredemeyer's resources for software architects: www.bredemeyer.com

  • CORBA: www.corba.org

  • New: World Wide Institute of Software Architects

  •   Google search for topics on software design principles.

  •   Google search for topics on software architecture.

• Chapter 10 - Testing and Quality Assurance
  • Hotlist about software quality assurance and process improvement: www.tantara.ab.ca/info.htm

  • Software quality assurance links: www.ics.uci.edu/~cliu1/sqa

  • NASA's Software Assurance Technology Centre, satc.gsfc.nasa.gov

  • The guide to SQA: satc.gsfc.nasa.gov/assure/assuregb.html

  • Peter G. Neumann's Risks Digest: catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/

  • Software testing online resources by Roland Untch at Middle Tennessee State University: www.mtsu.edu/~storm

  • Software testing hotlist by Bret Pettichord: www.io.com/~wazmo/qa

  • Newsgroup comp.software.testing and its FAQ: www.faqs.org/faqs/software-eng/testing-faq

  • The DMOZ Open Directory on software testing: dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Software_Testing

  • Blue Dawn Corporation: Software Testing Links: www.bluedawncomp.com/stlinks.htm

  • Aptests software testing links; A particularly strong list of testing tools: www.aptest.com/resources.html

  • D.A. Wheeler, B. Brykczynski, and R.N. Meeson, Jr. (eds), Software Inspection An Industry Best Practice

  • British Standards Online: bsonline.techindex.co.uk

  • IEEE Software Engineering Standards: www.standards.ieee.org/software/index.html

  • Peek-a-boo: www.clarkwoodsoftware.com

  • Purify: www.rational.com

  •   Google search for topics on software testing.

  •   Google search for topics on software quality.

• Chapter 11 - Project Management
  • B. Hughes and M. Cotterell, "Software Project management": www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/hughes.

  • Dave Farthing's software project management page at the University of Glamorgan. Many useful links.

  • All project management: www.allpm.com.

  • The project management institute www.pmi.org

  • The Project management body of knowledge.

  • British Standards Online: bsonline.techindex.co.uk

  • IEEE Software Engineering Standards: www.standards.ieee.org/software/index.html

  • ISO Standards: www.iso.ch

  • Extreme programmming: www.extremeprogramming.org.

  •   Google search for topics on software project management.

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