Resources

Books

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas.
Software Project Survival Guide, by Steve McConnell.
Code Complete, 2nd ed., by Steve McConnell. (Chapter 5: Design in Construction is available free.)
Rapid Development, by Steve McConnell.
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides.
Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, by Alan Shalloway and James Trott.

Articles and websites

Project Ideas and Presentations
- Ideas for startups (Graham)
- Examples of past projects: CSE Spring ‘06 Projects, CSE Spring ‘07 Projects
Software Development Process and Practice
- Anchoring the Software Process, Barry Boehm, USC, 1995.
- Joel Spolsky Site. Tips, checklists, and opinions (not universally agreed on) on software engineering practices based on experience.
- Construx software engineering consultants, project survival guide. Holds a number of good references and templates.
- Net Objectives software engineering consultants. Also holds a number of good references
- Steve McConnell Site. Good resources and papers/columns on software projects and practices.
- Pragmatic Programmer Tips
- Chapter 1, Agile Practices, by Robert C. Martin
- Good Enough Quality: Beyond the Buzzword by James Bach
- Rise of Worse is Better by Richard P. Gabriel
Specifications
- Construx software requirements resources template.
- Painless Functional Specs, by Joel Spolsky
- Alistair Cockburn web site - Use Cases
Architecture and Design
- Software Architecture, by David Garlan.
- On the Criteria to Be Used When Decomposing a System into Modules, by David Parnas. (Off-campus access)
- Code Complete, Chapter 5: Design in Construction, by Steve McConnell
- Emergent Design: Evolving Systems with High Efficiency and Low Risk, by Scott Bain, Net Objectives
UML
- Practical UML, Randy Miller
- UML’s Sequence Diagrams, Donald Bell
- UML Sequence Diagrams Martin Fowler
- UML2 extensions for Visio
Design Patterns
- Design Patterns Survey of common patterns, with code examples, from SourceMaking
- A Survey of Common Design Patterns by James Maioriello
- What are Design Patterns and Do I Need Them by James Maioriello
- Design patterns in C#
User Interfaces
- User Interface Hall of Shame
- Web Pages that Suck
Testing
- Daily build/smoke test
- If You Didn’t Test It, It Doesn’t Work, by Bob Colwell. (UW access)
- How Do You Spell Testing? - A Mnemonic to Jump-Start Testing, by James Bach.
Refactoring
- Refactoring catalog by Martin Fowler
- Refactoring Sourcemaking Site
Extreme Programming
- Is design dead? by Martin Fowler
- All I really need to know about pair programming I learned in kindergarten by Laurie Williams: Good introduction to why you would use pair programming.
- Production Programming in the Classroom Charlie Reis, an author, was a grad student here at UW. The paper talks about experience using DrJava, open source, and extreme programming in the classroom.
Estimation
- Estimation Basics by Kathleen Peters, Software Productivity Center
- Cocomo II Reference Manual
- Cocomo II overview by The Code Project
- Cocomo II overview by SoftStar Systems
- Cocomo II calculator with factors by USC
- SLOCCount tool to count lines of code
- CodeCount tool to count sloc (open source from USC)

Resources

Books

Articles and websites

Past project proposals