Books Guide: Software Process Improvement

This book is a guide to software testing of mobile apps, web apps, and games. It covers all aspects of testing such as manual testing, test cases design, automation testing, exploratory testing and performance testing. The book discusses tips, techniques, and tools for the every day tester needed to accomplish their job. It also includes advice on how to be a better tester and test manager. the book is available on Amazon.

Many software projects fail unnecessarily because of unclear objectives, redundant and unproductive work, cost overruns, and a host of other avoidable process problems. In response, agile processes and lightweight tooling have begun to replace traditional engineering processes throughout the development lifecycle.

Effective requirements discovery and analysis is a critical best practice for serious application development. Until now, however, requirements and Agile methods have rarely coexisted peacefully. For many enterprises considering Agile approaches, the absence of effective and scalable Agile requirements processes has been a showstopper for Agile adoption. In Agile Software Requirements, Dean Leffingwell shows exactly how to create effective requirements in Agile environments.

DevOps is an emerging set of principles, methods and practices for communication, collaboration and integration between software development (application/software engineering) and IT operations (systems administration/infrastructure) professionals. It has developed in response to the emerging understanding of the interdependence and importance of both the development and operations disciplines in meeting an organization's goal of rapidly producing software products and services.

Software Development and Professional Practice reveals how to design and code great software. What factors do you take into account? What makes a good design? What methods and processes are out there for designing software? Is designing small programs different than designing large ones? How can you tell a good design from a bad one? You'll learn the principles of good software design, and how to turn those principles back into great code.

Programmers who endure and succeed amidst swirling uncertainty and nonstop pressure share a common attribute: They care deeply about the practice of creating software. They treat it as a craft. They are professionals.

A practical field guide to the practice of scrum, an agile software project management methodology.

Agile Development and Business Goals describes a unique, state-of-the-art methodology that aligns the critical but often "silo-ed" software development process with core company goals. Eschewing long-winded "agile philosophy" in favor of a formally prioritized process, this book serves as a distilled learning guide for managing technical resources in a manner that directly boosts your bottom line.

The Certified Function Point Specialist Examination Guide provides a complete and authoritative review of the rules and guidelines prescribed in the release of version 4.3 of the Function Point Counting Practices Manual (CPM). Providing a fundamental understanding of the IFPUG Functional Size Measurement method, this is the ideal study guide for the CFPS examination. The text:

Waiting until the end of a project to identify "lessons learned" is too late. By that time, the project may be ready for the scrap heap. But if your projects and programs include multi-level learning, you'll not only be fostering continuous improvements for the future, you'll be well-equipped to reduce the risk of failure while projects are "in-flight" so you can deliver maximum value to your client organization. Facilitating Project Performance Improvement helps any organization:

Increasingly, large product-development organizations are turning to lean thinking, agile principles and practices, and large-scale Scrum to sustainably and quickly deliver value and innovation.

Project Management the Agile Way is for experienced project managers, system engineers, architects, and business analysts who are comfortable in traditional methods of project management, but now need to understand how to make agile work effectively in the enterprise. This book presents practical, day-to-day tips and application advice for how to harmonize agile methods with mainstream project processes and how to integrate these practices with other methodologies used in the business.

The first step towards success in a software project is to ensure a professional setup. This includes a metrics-based formal estimation process to ensure a solid foundation for project planning. Accurate estimates require quantitative measurements, ideally tool based. In addition, software project managers must also monitor and update these estimates during the project’s lifecycle to control progress and assess possible risks.

CMMI® for Services (CMMI-SVC) is a comprehensive set of guidelines to help organizations establish and improve processes for delivering services. By adapting and extending proven standards and best practices to reflect the unique challenges faced in service industries, CMMI-SVC offers providers a practical and focused framework for achieving higher levels of service quality, controlling costs, improving schedules, and ensuring user satisfaction.

Based on the authors' more than fifteen years of experience in software agent technology, this book first presents the essential basics, aspects, and structures of the agent technology. It then covers the main quality aspects in software system development and gives current examples of agent measurement and evaluation. Focusing on software agent systems and multi-agent systems (MAS), the authors discuss the determination of quality properties.

In this practical guide, software-quality guru Capers Jones reveals best practices for ensuring software development success by illustrating the engineering methods used by the most successful large software projects at leading companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Sony, and EDS.

This is the definitive, realistic, actionable guide to starting fast with Scrum and agile–and then succeeding over the long haul. Leading agile consultant and practitioner Mike Cohn presents detailed recommendations, powerful tips, and real-world case studies drawn from his unparalleled experience helping hundreds of software organizations make Scrum and agile work.

Effective software development is no longer merely an IT concern: today, it is crucial to the entire enterprise. However, most businesspeople are not ready to make informed decisions about software initiatives. The Economics of Iterative Software Development: Steering Toward Better Business Results will prepare them.

Over the past ten years, TPI® has proved to be the leading methodology to assess the maturity of an organizations or project's test process. This is a success we, at Sogeti, are very proud of. But this success by no means implies that we are done and can rest on our laurels. Sogeti s answer to this need now lies in front of you: TPI® NEXT, the Business Driven Test Process Improvement model (BDTPI)!

This book is about a new way of approaching process improvement for engineering development. Process improvement is a generally well-understood and accepted means of achieving quality and productivity gains for software development, and the recognition of its importance for other engineering disciplines is growing. The success and wide adoption of the Capability Maturity Model for Softwareâ has led to increased development of similar models in disciplines other than software.

The IBM® Rational Unified Process® has become the de facto industry-standard process for large-scale enterprise software development. The IBM Certified Solution Designer - IBM Rational Unified Process V7.0 certification provides a powerful way for solutions developers to demonstrate their proficiency with RUP.

Increasingly, large product-development organizations are turning to lean thinking, agile principles and practices, and large-scale Scrum to sustainably and quickly deliver value and innovation. However, many groups have floundered in their practice-oriented adoptions. Why? Because without a deeper understanding of the thinking tools and profound organizational redesign needed, it is as though casting seeds on to an infertile field.

In most software organizations, the budget for software maintenance is much larger than for software development. However, there is much less management attention focus on software maintenance than on software development. This book illustrates how process improvement models popular with software development can be applied to software maintainers.

Software testing is traditionally seen as a difficult and time consuming activity that is hard to embed in the software development process. This book provides a different view. It explains to stakeholders how testing can add value to software development and doing business, and provides the tester with practical information.

A successful Six Sigma business strategy provides a suite of cross-functional and vertically aligned metrics that lead to significant improvements in customer satisfaction and the bottom line. At first glance, Six Sigma may seem in direct competition with SEI's Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®). However, with its domain-specific approach to improving the engineering process, CMMI offers the process infrastructure that is fundamental to effective Six Sigma strategy.

CMMI® (Capability Maturity Model® Integration) describes best practices for the development and maintenance of products and services across their entire lifecycle. By integrating essential bodies of knowledge, CMMI provides a single, comprehensive framework for organizations to assess their development and maintenance processes, implement improvements, and measure progress.

For any software developer who has spent days in "integration hell," cobbling together myriad software components, Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk illustrates how to transform integration from a necessary evil into an everyday part of the development process. The key, as the authors show, is to integrate regularly and often using continuous integration (CI) practices and techniques.

Testing even a simple system can quickly turn into a potentially infinite task. Faced with tight costs and schedules, testers need to have a toolkit of practical techniques combined with hands-on experience and the right strategies in order to complete a successful project. World-renowned testing expert Rex Black provides you with the proven methods and concepts that test professionals must know.

Agile development practices, while still controversial in some circles, offer undeniable benefits: faster time to market, better responsiveness to changing customer requirements, and higher quality. However, agile practices have been defined and recommended primarily to small teams. In Scaling Software Agility, Dean Leffingwell describes how agile methods can be applied to enterprise-class development.

Learn proven, real-world techniques for specifying software requirements with this practical reference. It details 30 requirement "patterns" offering realistic examples for situation-specific guidance for building effective software requirements. Each pattern explains what a requirement needs to convey, offers potential questions to ask, points out potential pitfalls, suggests extra requirements, and other advice.

From a leader in the agile process movement, learn best practices for moving agile development with Scrum from the skunk works (small team) to the shop floor (the enterprise). Managers get case studies and practical guidance for managing the change processes for applying Scrum in the enterprise.

In Agility and Discipline Made Easy, Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Open Unified Process (OpenUP) experts Per Kroll and Bruce MacIsaac share twenty well-defined best practices that you and your team can start adopting today to improve the agility, predictability, speed, and cost of software development.

Defining and Deploying Software Processes provides expert guidance that allows you to create efficient and effective processes that let you better manage project schedules and software quality. The author's organized approach details how to deploy into your company culture processes that are embraced by employees, and a Web-based process architecture that is completely flexible and extensible.

Today, technology has become too much a part of overall corporate success for its effectiveness to be left to chance. The stakes are too high. Fortunately, the idea of 'quality management' is being reinvigorated. In the last decade process programs have become more and more prevalent. And, out of all the available options, three have moved to the top of the chain. These three are:

Open Source is NOT JUST FOR LINUX/UNIX! Open source is changing the software market because of its advantages over commercial tools including cost savings, greater reliability, security, improved performance, and scalability. Although open source is primarily associated with Linux, many people, including IT professionals, don''t realize that open source programs can work on a standard Windows platform.

*Describes Agile Modeling Driven Design (AMDD) and Test-Driven Design (TDD) approaches, database refactoring, database encapsulation strategies, and tools that support evolutionary techniques

*Agile software developers often use object and relational database (RDB) technology together and as a result must overcome the impedance mismatch

A breakthrough approach to managing Agile software development . . . Agile methods might just be the alternative to outsourcing. However, Agile development must scale in scope and discipline to be acceptable in the boardrooms of the Fortune 1000. In "Agile Management for Software Engineering," David J.

The Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI) is an invaluable tool for organizations seeking to drive quantifiable improvements in systems and software engineering. SCAMPI appraisals can help those organizations identify the strengths and weaknesses of their current processes, reveal crucial development and acquisition risks, set priorities for improvement plans, derive capability and maturity level ratings, and even perform realistic benchmarking.

King, a veteran consultant in the information technology industry, promotes the concept of performance assurance throughout the entire system lifecycle, examining not only the technical aspects of performance, but also the relevant processes and topics related to companies and people. His goal is for readers to understand the fundamental issues that surround performance and technology such that they can apply them to formulate a coherent customized approach to performance assurance.

This book doesn't tell you how to write faster code, or how to write code with fewer memory leaks, or even how to debug code at all. What it does tell you is how to build your product in better ways, how to keep track of the code that you write, and how to track the bugs in your code. Plus some more things you'll wish you had known before starting a project.

Practical Insight into CMMI is an essential reference for engineering, IT and management professionals striving to grasp the "look and feel of a successful business oriented process improvement implementation". Taking you beyond the Capability Maturity Model to the integrated world of systems and software, this comprehensive resource presents CMMI in a manner that is easy to comprehend by higher-level managers and practitioners alike.

Forget wizards, you need a slave--someone to do your repetitive, tedious and boring tasks, without complaint and without pay, so you'll have more time to design and write exciting code. That's what computers are for: you can enlist your computer to automate all of your project's repetitive tasks, ranging from individual builds and running unit tests through to full product release and customer deployment.

This book is a recipe-based approach to using the CVS Version Control system that will get you up and running quickly--and correctly. All projects need version control: it's one of the foundational pieces of any project's infrastructure. Yet half of all project teams in the U.S. don't use any version control at all. Many others don't use it well, and end up experiencing time-consuming problems.

The increasing complexity of embedded and real-time systems requires a more premeditated and sophisticated design approach for successful implementation. The object-based Unified Modeling Language (UML) can describe the structural and behavioral aspects critical to real-time systems and has come to the fore as an outstanding medium for effective design.

"Ship It!" avoids current fashion trends and marketing hype; instead, readers find page after page of solid advice, all tried and tested in the real world. This book is a collection of tips that show what tools a successful team has to use, and how to use them well. Developers will get quick, easy-to-follow advice on modern techniques and when they should be applied.

Aimed at beginning to intermediate programmers, this book will show you:

This completely revised edition of an Artech House bestseller goes far beyond other software configuration management (SCM) books as the only complete guide that integrates SCM principles, advanced topics, and implementation procedures in one accessible resource. The second edition has been greatly expanded with new chapters on documentation control, product data management, SCM standards and software process improvement models like CMM, CMMI, BOOTSTRAP, ISO SPICE, and Trillium.

The architects of the Software Factories method provide a detailed look at this faster, less expensive, and more reliable approach to application development. Software Factories significantly increase the level of automation in application development at medium to large companies, applying the time tested pattern of using visual languages to enable rapid assembly and configuration of framework based components.

"Software Reliability Engineering" is the classic guide to this time-saving practice for the software professional. ACM Software Engineering Notes praised it as: ". . .

A solid guide and reference to the key elements of SQL and how to use it effectively.

"Sustainable Software Development" brings together principles and practices for building software that is technically superior, delivers exceptional business value, and can evolve rapidly to reflect any change to your business or technical environment.

You're a technical professional, perhaps a programmer, engineer, or scientist. You are not a professional writer, but writing is part of your job (specs, manuals, proposals, lab reports, technical presentations, Web content, data sheets, and so on.) Welcome. This book is for you. It's all you need to clearly communicate technical ideas to any audience--technical or nontechnical--and motivate them to act.

Defects play a large role in most software projects, ultimately leading to deficiencies and lost revenue. The ROI from Software Quality provides the tools needed for software engineers and project managers to calculate how much they should invest in quality, what benefits the investment will reap, and just how quickly those benefits will be realized.

Ellen Gottesdiener's "Software Requirements Memory Jogger" contains an incredible wealth of clearly-presented requirements information in a small-format book. This inch-thick "pocket book" is easy to carry around and browse through when a busy requirements analyst has a few minutes to spare.

The definitive guide to using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services technologies to simplify IT infrastructure and improve business agility. Renowned experts Eric Newcomer and Greg Lomow offer practical strategies and proven best practices for every facet of SOA planning and implementation.

This is the definitive guide for managers and students to agile and iterative development methods: what they are, how they work, how to implement them—and why you should. Using statistically significant research and large-scale case studies, noted methods expert Craig Larman presents the most convincing case ever made for iterative development.

A software developer and systems engineer join forces, using examples and case studies to illustrate the differences and similarities between agile and plan-driven methods, showing that the best development strategies combine both attributes. -Book News, Inc.

Many people are confused about corrective action. They know it's a requirement for compliance to standards like ISO 9001. In some cases, the mandate is imposed by their customers or by regulatory agencies. What people often don't understand is what the requirement actually entails.

Did you know that the U.S. loses $59.5 billion per year due to inadequate software testing? With this revolutionary book, that's about to end! Applied Software Test Automation teaches you how to build a fully automated testing tool that you can immediately use for your software development projects. Simply feed the software under test, get the test result, and fix the bugs. You can even use your preferred languages for developing the testing tool.

Model driven architecture (MDA) is a framework based on UML and other industry standards for visualizing and exchanging software designs and models to build large, complex enterprise systems. The Dutch authors of this book outline the MDA development life cycle, explain the role of transformation of models in MDA, and demonstrate how a simple platform independent model is transformed into complex platform specific models and code

* Shows how to adapt your company's practices to implement a CMMI process improvement program
* Bridges the gap between process improvement professionals and software developers
* Provides case studies that demonstrate how concepts have proven successful in real organizations
* Includes do's and don'ts checklists that offer quick synopses of chapter content

Return on Software is about making choices: software technical choices in a business context. It helps software professionals appreciate the business consequences of the decisions they make. This primer will prove a valuable reference for making the important decisions the typical software organization faces both today and down the road.

You will learn how to:

Ultimately, software development is about creating value yet, all too often, software fails to deliver the business value customers need. This book will help you change that, by linking software development directly to value creation. You'll learn exactly how to identify which features add value and which don't, and refocus your entire development process on delivering more value, more rapidly.

Software by Numbers shows you how to:

Do you know what is the real cost of your software? Before you reach for a calculator, be forewarned that it's a trick question. Even technology industry analysts and seasoned IT executives have difficulty putting a hard figure on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of today's enterprise application solutions.

Total-quality philosophy is an approach to doing business that focuses all of the resources of the organization on the continual improvement of both quality and competitiveness. To this end, a total-quality organization will continually, improve its processes, people, and products. This approach is an effective way and, arguably, the only way to survive and prosper in a globally competitive environment.

Is your code easy to change? Can you get nearly instantaneous feedback when you do change it? Do you understand it? If the answer to any of these questions is no, you have legacy code, and it is draining time and money away from your development efforts.

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A software tester’s survival guide from a leading expert in the field.

This book explains how organizations can use ISO 9001 and CMMI together to improve process quality. It provides advice for streamlining process improvement programs, conserving resources, and moving toward compliance certification. For organizations using older versions of the programs, the book details migration paths for upgrading.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR

"The Bug" is a mesmerizing first novel about a demonic, elusive computer bug and the havoc it wreaks on the lives of the people around it. This rare combination: a novel of ideas and a suspense, it is a story about obsession and love that takes readers deep into both the personal and virtual life. In 1984, at the dawn of the personal-computer era, Roberta Walton, a novice software tester at a SiliconValley start-up, stumbles across a bug.

Extreme Programming (XP) and the Unified Process (UP) have both caused quite a sensation in the software development community. Although XP offers a methodology for faster software development, many developers find that it does not explicitly include modeling time, which is crucial to ensure that a project meets its proposed requirements. UP developers, on the other hand, have found that the UP approach to modeling is too documentation-intensive and top heavy, thus impeding progress.

Best selling author and world-renowned software development expert Robert C. Martin shows how to solve the most challenging problems facing software developers, project managers, and software project leaders today.

This comprehensive, pragmatic tutorial on Agile Development and eXtreme programming, written by one of the founding fathers of Agile Development:

Together: supercharging software development, from start to finish! Together delivers a superbly integrated set of lifecycle tools for building software with breakthrough quality, efficiency, and performance. Now there's a definitive guide to making the most of Together: Better Software Faster.

The book's collected articles offer important perspectives on the role of metrics in the development process, and show how metrics directly enhance software quality and output efficiency. The book explores several vital areas, including Function Point Analysis, project estimation and management, outsourcing, statistical process control, and more. These articles range from basic theory to the sophisticated application of metrics.

Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering has established itself as the definitive book on this essential topic of software development. Comprehensive in scope and peppered with industry examples, it shows how to measure software quality and use measurements to improve software development, and it teaches the skills you need to measure and improve the quality of the software development process.

The practical handbook of software project management-by practitioners, for practitioners! Quality Software Project Management is the practical, start-to-finish project management resource for every software professional-experienced managers and developers moving into leadership roles.

Project management for today's complex, chaotic business environments.

* Innovative new XPM tools: how to make them work in your organization
* XPM: the first radically new approach to project management in decades!
* Designed from the ground up for today's high-speed, fast-changing projects
* Refocusing project management focused on people, relationships, and adding value!

Software Configuration Management Patterns alleviates software engineers' most common concerns about software configuration management (SCM)--perceived rigidity and an overemphasis on process. This book demonstrates how effective SCM strategies promote a healthy, team-oriented culture that produces better software. Through the use of patterns, the authors show that properly managed workflow can avert delays, morale problems, and cost overruns.

The TMap Test Management approach is based on years of practical software testing experiences and developed by the R&D department of IQUIP Informatica B.V. It enjoyed an overwhelming interest from its first publication in Dutch in 1995. Many companies and government departments arranged their organization and performed their test processes as much as possible according to TMap. Within a few years, it became the standard for software testing within the Dutch-speaking countries.

The rapid rise in popularity of Extreme Programming (XP) has put the practice of software testing squarely in the spotlight of application development. At one time, testing was a neglected practice, a highly specialized activity that came as an afterthought as complex, code-intensive projects were rushed to completion. But in today's world of escalating quality expectations, testing is a key component of the development process.

XML and ASP.NET is the one book you need to master XML in the .NET Framework. It includes all of the technologies needed to program .NET web applications including XPath, XSLT, XML Schemas, and the Microsoft XML Parsers. This book also incorporates an incredible breadth of XML technologies from basic queries using XPath to advanced serialization techniques, thoroughly exploring Microsoft's .NET implementation of XML.

Learn how to transform XP theory into concrete Java® development techniques! Software developers live by the mantra, "evolve or die". Adhering to that philosophy, Richard Hightower and Nicholas Lesiecki present you with an innovative book about Extreme Programming (XP) a development methodology that enables developers to build flexible, high-quality software in a quick, efficient, and cost-effective manner.

This book provides Web developers and software test professionals with practical, experience-based guidance on Web application testing. Concise and straightforward, this book provides a framework for testing Web-based applications. It offers a guide to performing test execution using several leading automated test tools, as well as insight into which test tools to use and why.

This introduction to software engineering and practice addresses both procedural and object-oriented development. The book applies concepts consistently to two common examples—a typical information system and a real-time system. It combines theory with real, practical applications by providing an abundance of case studies and examples from the current literature. Expanded coverage of object-oriented development — a programming perspective being implemented by many companies.

Long a standard practice in traditional manufacturing, the concept of product lines is relatively new to the software industry. A software product line is a family of systems that share a common set of core technical assets, with preplanned extensions and variations to address the needs of specific customers or market segments.

Why do so many software projects fail? The reality is that many of these projects are led by programmers or developers thrown into the role of project manager without the necessary skills or training to see a project through successfully. Patricia Ensworth has written a hands-on survival guide designed to rescue the "accidental project manager" and help them to quickly ramp up on all key areas involved in software project management.

A one-stop source of information covering everything you'll need to know in order to pass the CISSP examination

The CISSP Prep Guide

This is the last in a four-book series comprising a critical review of the Unified Process that includes a survey of the alternate software processes and the synthesis of a more robust process. The Transition and Production phases are the final phases of the Unified Process that provide for the deployment, operation and support of the system among the user groups.

Anyone who has managed the process of developing or redesigning a Web site of significant size has likely learned the hard way the complexities, pitfalls, and cost risk of such an undertaking. While many Web development firms have fantastic technical expertise, what sets the topnotch organizations apart is the ability to accurately manage the planning and development process. Web Redesign: Workflow That Works directly addresses this crucial area with a specific, proven process.

Function Point Analysis: Measurement Practices for Successful Software Projects is a comprehensive presentation of the principles of function point analysis (FPA) and a guide to its effective use in managing the development and deployment of software. Written for both information technology (IT) practitioners and managers, it describes how to use this proven-but-underutilized software-sizing metric to achieve successful software projects.

(From the Publisher) It is tempting when approaching a software development problem to rush headlong into the trap of thinking too soon about the solution. Software development problems are about the world outside the computer - the real environment in which the system must have its effect - and demand consideration of the surrounding characteristics, relationships and context. Problem frames are a tool for classifying, analyzing and structuring such software development problems.

Billions of dollars are wasted each year on IT software projects that are developed and either released late or never used. In light of recent large-scale errors, and methods, tools, and practices used for software development have become the subject of significant study and analysis. One quantitative method for analysis is software assessment, which explores the methodologies used by businesses for software development.

The new edition of this book provides a comprehensive discussion of software engineering techniques and shows how they can be applied in practical software projects. This book features new coverage of the software process and software process technology, system integration, requirements management, and risk analysis, as well as new chapters on pattern-based reuse, distributed system engineering, and legacy systems.

Introduces a model for a mature software development process that accommodates flexibility, focusing on policies and procedures that define how software development is performed, and technologies available. Tells how to sell the business case for software process improvement, how to establish dialogue between developers and customers, and how to manage multiple constituencies, personalities, and issues.

In this book, the authors provide an introduction to the essential activities involved in a software engineering project. Readers will come to understand technical skills in requirements/specification, analysis, design/implementation, and testing. These methods are treated fully, with a multitude of examples for readers to emulate.

Verification and Validation of Modern Software-Intensive Systems brings the classic approaches up to date to apply them to contemporary computing methods. Based on the latest standards and research, the authors cover V&V for areas that have not been previously treated collectively, including:

Steve McConnell, a leader in defining software engineering's best practices, asserts that software development is entering a new era. Now's the time, McConnell says, for the industry to take notice and take action--and establish a true profession of software engineering.

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Now you can dramatically improve the design, performance, and manageability of object-oriented code without altering its interfaces or behavior. Refactoring shows
you exactly how to spot the best opportunities for refactoring and exactly how to do it-step by step. Through more than forty detailed case studies, you'll learn powerful - and surprisingly simple - ways to redesign code that is already in production.

In this book, a leading Sun Microsystems consultant presents start-to-finish techniques for software development, covering all three key elements of success: people, processes, and technology. Learn how to build a winning software development team, organize that team for success, and retain your best talent in today's extraordinarily competitive hiring environment. Learn how to use OO techniques from planning through testing.

Don't risk your software product's success through haphazard integration and release management. This book shows you "best practices" for every stage of a successful product release: source code control, product build, testing and defect tracking, code integration, software change management, and release engineering.

This volume is based on the experiences of eight industrial and one academic partner, from fields as diverse as oil and gas production, transportation, aerospace, nuclear power, and defence. Together they have carried out an in-depth examination of the issues involved in demonstrating through testing that acceptable safety integrity levels can be achieved.

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-- Ward Cunningham

In this indispensable book, a widely experienced business consultant provides a complete set of analytical tools essential to successful trouble-shooting, effective planning, and making better decisions faster, more confidently, and more often.

Now widely adopted as the de facto industry standard and sanctioned by the Object Management Group, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a notation all software developers need to know and understand. However, the UML is a big language, and not all of it is equally important. The award-winning first edition of UML Distilled was widely praised for being a concise guide to the core parts of the UML and has proved extremely successful in helping developers get up and running quickly.

Cleanroom software engineering is a process for developing high-reliability software. The cleanroom process answers today's call for more reliable software and provides methods for more cost-effective software development. It accomplishes this by combining theory-based engineering technologies in project management, incremental development, software specification and design, correctness verification, and statistical quality certification.

This cutting-edge, how-to manual details proven methods for turning chronically late, over-budget and under-performing projects completely around. The author provides clear guidance on making practical and powerful changes to the way you manage projects. The book includes a complete discussion of the approach pioneered by Dr. Eli Goldratt called "Critical Chain Scheduling," the most significant new development in project scheduling in the last forty years.

"Musa...is considered the guru of software reliability engineering." - Michael R. Lyn, Ph.D., Technical Staff, AT&T Laboratories. Spotlighting the practical steps that you need to apply Software Reliability Engineering to software development and testing, this first-of-its-kind guide puts the efficiency-enhancing benefits of SRE within easy reach.

Today, many organizations claim competitive market advantages resulting from the application of object-oriented technology and approaches in their software development efforts. As the use of object technology has become increasingly widespread and mainstream, a growing number of project managers are faced with a daunting task: keeping the object technology project on track and within budget.

Textbooks tell us how to define metrics, but there is little guidance about exactly how to start and what has proven most effective in actual use. This book helps bridge that gap by bringing together important and practical papers on applying software metrics. Each chapter addresses a significant question whose answer is essential to building an effective measurement program.

This book offers a balanced and thorough treatment of software reuse principles and metrics. Drawing on both academic and industry research, Poulin begins with a survey of reuse and how it is measured.

Requirements engineering is one facet of large project development that is often overlooked. If more effort is put into the definition and documentation of what the system is to do, the end result will be more reliable and easier to improve. Requirements need formal analysis and review before the work begins. This book provides a guide to do this in a rigid, structured manner that will produce documentation and test plans needed to design a successful system.

This book provides a comprehensive description of software engineering including conventional development methods and advanced approaches, like object-oriented development and cleanroom software engineering. The book also addresses management issues such as project planning, risk management, quality assurance, and configuration management.

This book is the first to describe the unique benefits and challenges associated with fault injection methods. Instead of focusing on theory and algorithms, the authors explain fault injection methodology by extensive use of applications data and real-world case studies.

This is the field guide for everyone involved in software development--especially those without formal management training. Acclaimed expert Steve McConnell maps out a proven approach to project management that you can learn and use successfully right away.

This book is in reference format. It is an excellent guide for developers, testers, and managers to look up terms in an easy-to-use format. It contains definitions of software quality terms as well as statistical data from research studies.

This book is the first professional-level guide in the important new field of software reuse. With the latest data on reuse, it explains the fundamental methods and metrics for successful reuse. Reuse has been called the central technical concept of the 1990s programming breakthrough: object technology. The book discusses object-oriented technologies, but goes well beyond them.

Focused on practical solutions rather than theory, this book provides models of written processes for software development and inspection along with outlines of several software-related documents. The book is a practical reference for software quality professionals, project managers, and engineers who are responsible for quality assurance. The book can be used as a basic text for introductory undergraduate courses.

This paperback book describes the authors' top challenges of software testing and illustrates the tactics testers can use to avoid "lose-lose" situations. Each challenge is outlined with an overview, state of the practice, impact on testing, solutions to the challenge, guidelines for success and a plan of action. The summary chapter is a plan of action to improve testing, followed by four pages of resources.

With his first software novel, Tom DeMarco delivers a highly entertaining and subtly educational book all about project management. The plot centers around Mr. Tompkins, a downsized project manager who is kidnapped and whisked away to the fantasy Republic of Morovia. There, he is asked to manage a huge staff of developers to deliver six software products with impossible deadlines. Using different size teams and different methods, Mr.

This book provides a practical guide to the implementation of the Ami software metrics program for improved efficiency and effectiveness within a real company environment.

This hands-on, user-friendly reference introduces a unique, Deming-related approach to attaining ISO 9000 registration through a proven method: TAP PDSA (Train, Audit, Plan and Plan, Do, Study, Act). The book takes the reader sequentially from the beginning of a registration effort to life after registration.

Quality does matter to the software developer. The construction of a Quality Management System is one practical way to bring quality disciplines to software development activities. Those two points are central in this book. The book makes ISO 9001 and ISO 9000-3 software specifications accessible and relevant to software specialists while recognizing the very real deficiencies of these documents.

Object-oriented metrics are an integral part of object technology at the research level and in commercial software development projects. This book offers theoretical and empirical tips and facts for creating an OO complexity metrics program, based on a review of existing research from the last several years.

This is a short book intended to present elements of software quality systems. Correctly called a primer, it depicts and discusses multiple areas that need to be understood by Information Technology specialists and managers. The appendices, most of them IEEE Standards, point out the usefulness of IEEE work and documents in the standards and quality-assurance areas.

This is volume four in a four-volume set. This book focuses on how to create the environment necessary to implement the processes and concepts described in the previous three volumes. The key focus is getting the required support and environment in place to support process improvement.

The introduction says the book is intended for anyone wanting to 1) learn the elements of a lifecycle, 2) implement an object-oriented software lifecycle, 3) improve software quality and maturity, 4) obtain a recipe and checklist for software project management, and 5) get started selecting and implementing tools for OO software development.

This book shows how applying risk management to each stage of the software engineering model can help the entire development process run on time and on budget. Starting with a concise overview of quality software, it identifies the potential threats associated with software development, explains how to establish an effective risk-management program, and details the six critical steps involved in applying the process.

The software testing process is the way in which people, tools, methods, measurements, and equipment are integrated to test a software product. This book offers a toolbox for the practical implementation of the testing process and how to improve it. Based on real-world issues and examples, it brings together the key methods of software testing with practical implementation techniques, and presents a simple, highly practical approach to those getting started.

Technical Risk Management is at the forefront of skills dedicated to achieving affordable quality. Based on proven techniques developed over decades of experience, and bearing the endorsement of Norman R. Augustine, Chairman and CEO of Martin Marietta Corp., this book provides the tools needed to bring quality products to the marketplace on time and within budget.

This book provides a comprehensive review of Object-Oriented software engineering. Various analysis techniques are explained in detail and then expanded upon by the author. A weather-data-acquisition system and distribution system demonstrate the Object-Oriented methods in some detail.

(From the Back Cover)
This book not only explains QFD fundamentals clearly and concisely, it takes you well beyond the basics to provide the advanced techniques, specific information, and concrete examples you need to implement QFD successfully and derive its full benefits.

We are building systems today--and using computers to control them—which have the potential for large-scale destruction of life and environment. More than ever, software engineers and system developers, as well as their managers, must understand the issues and develop the skills needed to anticipate and prevent accidents before they occur. Professionals should not require a catastrophe to happen before taking action.

This book offers a balanced presentation of theory and practice. Featuring exhaustive coverage of the foundations of reliability, safety, and testability, it uses real-world examples, illustrations, and clear descriptions to explore all of the latest techniques for assessing those qualities.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of current software quality assurance and metrics in practice in industry, with contributions from around the world. The book discusses themes that are influencing current practice and international standards. The book moves from a presentation of measurement framework, to methods and tools, to research case studies of QA and metrics.

This is a practical book that shows software developers how to comply with the International Standards Organization's (ISO) quality standard and how to use it as a catalyst for improved quality throughout the development process. It addresses issues of quality, management, and control in the software development industry. It shows software developers how to come to terms with ISO 9001 and how to use it specifically in the development process.

Software Testing offers an up-to-date synthesis of information in the field of software testing. It is the only text to bring together the two fundamental approaches--functional and structural--with numerous practical examples and exercises. The material provides the basis for making well-informed choices regarding appropriate techniques. Part I focuses on the mathematics needed to understand and correctly apply the two fundamental approaches.

This book provides a description and technical overview of the CMM, along with guidelines for improving software process management in general. It is a sequel to Watts Humphrey's work Managing the Software Process in that it structures the maturity framework presented in that book more formally.

Large software systems need to be carefully tracked. This book gives the methods and theories needed to set up checks and balances for a software system. Due to the tremendous amount of code, complex software systems need to be carefully monitored to ensure they run efficiently when they are completed.

This is a delightful collection of essays (most previously published) dealing with various software issues. Even though this book doesn't try to instruct the reader in any particular subject, such as configuration management or software measurement, most readers will gain a better understanding of several facets of software development. Unlike most books with the word "software" in the title, this book is fun to read, and you can actually read it from cover to cover in one sitting.

This book is a basic introduction to measurement and the validation and use of metrics.

This book provides a number of specific metrics that apply to object-oriented software projects. The metrics are based on measurements and advice drawn from a number of actual projects that have successfully used object technology to deliver products.

This is the inside story of the development of Windows NT. NT took five years and $150 million to complete. For much of that time, the massive program demanded the attention of more than 200 testers, writers and technicians. This book tells the tale and lays bare the messy, wrenching reality of large scale software innovation.

From the preface - The aim of this book lies in the integrated exposition of four aspects of quality assurance (planning administration, construction, analysis and psychological orientation) which form the framework for all kinds of quality assurance projects.

A basic book beginning with a general survey of the role of software testing and a number of testing methods including statement, dataflow, and domain testing along with the tools to support them.

The author (from Telecom Australia) describes particular tools, usability testing, and evaluation procedures. Most of these have been derived from behavioral and social science, but have been updated specifically to the human-computer interaction environment. Numerous examples show how and when the tools can be used most effectively.

Goodman's book claims to be written specifically to help organizations successfully introduce software metrics programs. The book is easy to read and is certainly recommended as an introduction to starting a measurement process.

This book claims to be a complete guide to software engineering and development. It includes a diskette.

This book focuses on the early phases of the software development lifecycle. The author discusses the latest research results from the requirements arena and examines techniques that will lend themselves to your particular problem. Each technique is followed by a case study illustrating how that technique can be applied to three real problems. The book is recommended for the practicing systems engineer, software analyst, or requirements writer.

This excellent book lives up to its title in delivering practical and application-oriented advice for project and process managers. The book highlights Hewlett Packard’s experiences using software metrics, incorporates more than seventy charts and graphs from real projects, and shows how the metrics can be rolled up into useful and workable organization indicators. The book includes a good bibliography.

This book is a collection of 13 articles, mostly from the UK, which highlight some of the more important and difficult aspects of risk management in a variety of contexts. Organizations struggle to survive by using new technologies and marketing new products which may put at risk employees, customers, shareholders, society, the environment, and our ecosystem. All aspects of risk analysis, assessment and management are addressed, extending from methodology to ethics.

Of the many books on software quality, this one offers a unique question-and-answer format. It emphasizes the most crucial quality considerations and places a strong focus on the quality-productivity link. A wealth of examples and attention to practical techniques make it easy to use. The book includes a number of examples in C.

This is the first book on the "cleanroom" approach to building software. The book outlines what the cleanroom process is and reports on experiences using it in industrial strength projects. Managers and practitioners will find the book worthwhile and stimulating. It is a must for anyone who plans to seriously introduce or experiment with the cleanroom ideas.

Any organization using or thinking about using automated size-estimation and project-tracking tools needs this book. Putnam shares his experience with size-estimation modelling and provides insight about what he and the industry have learned.

The title of this book does not do it justice. It
does, indeed, discuss requirements, prototyping,
and software creation; but it also addresses risk
management, the process of change, the psychology
of software development, and more. The book is
very readable and thoroughly enjoyable.

A unique treatment, this book is designed to provide real answers to software acquisition managment--the processes of acquiring, via formal agreement with the developer (contract), software that has to be developed or has a rather large content requiring development.

Expert consultants Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister have combed through ten years' worth of software magazines and journals and selected thirty-one of the best articles on software issues. The articles were chosen for their fresh, new insights on the software profession as well as for their readability. More than a dozen sources are represented, including IEEE Computer, Software Practice & Experience, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and Communications of the ACM.

The book focuses on two processes that the author refers to as "technical planning" and "quality planning." They are designed to lead the manager through a technical assessment of the problem to be solved and to proceed from that to the formulation of a traditional resource plan.

This is a very provocative book that should be read by anyone working in the field and concerned with software processes and methods. The book provides a thorough challenge to the Waterfall methodology and offers a lot of fresh material and insight about other ways of organizing and conducting software development. Wicked problems (the problems are fully understood after they're solved) are defined and explored effectively.

Phadke was trained in robust design techniques by Genichi Taguchi, the mastermind behind Japanese quality manufacturing technologies and the father of Japanese quality control. Taguchi's approach is currently under consideration to be adopted as a student protocol with the US government. The foreword is written by Taguchi.

This is a comprehensive book about software quality and how to achieve it. Part 5 on quality planning is especially useful with examples of what a quality plan might look like for a small project, a large industrial project, and a military project.

Organized as a collection of essays about programming, this is another Weinberg classic. If you are a programmer, or manage programmers, or indeed just associate with programmers, this is a book for you.

(From the Back Cover) Based on the authors' extensive experience in the software industry, this volume describes and extensively illustrates practical techniques for transforming any software development endeavor into a visible, traceable, and hence manageable process.

This book grew out of an internal class taught at AT&T Bell Laboratories. The authors also gained experience and insight by testing and refining the book’s ideas on a large number of software projects at AT&T. If offers the best coverage of reliability models and measurement we have seen. Examples and case-study problems are sprinkled liberally throughout, which help the reader understand some of the more theoretical material.

The author analyzes the full spectrum of detecting and removing bugs from computer programs during development and subsequent modification.

Designed for first-time and experienced users, this book describes the UNIX® programming environment and philosophy in detail.Readers will gain an understanding not only of how to use the system, its components, and the programs, but also how these fit into the total environment.

Stressing the basic but often ignored management concept of maximum efficiency and zero defects, the author details easy-to-implement programs and actual case histories designed to benefit the small businessman, the middle manager, and the supervisor, as well as the giant corporation.