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On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules  - http://www.acm.org/classics/may96/  One of the classic articles leading to modern software engineering, by D.L. Parnas.  Lessons Learned -- Current Problems  - http://www.spmn.com/lessons.html  Technical and managerial best/worst practices. Based on study of US Department of Defense software projects.  The Many Dimensions of the Software Process  - http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds6-4/software.html  Explores the importance and purpose of software process and quality.  Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century  - http://dev.scriptics.com/doc/scripting.html  The advantages of scripting languages - typeless data, smaller code size, greater reuse, higher productivity. By TCL creator John Ousterhout.  Classic Testing Mistakes  - http://www.testing.com/writings/classic/mistakes.html  The role of testing, Planning the complete testing effort, Personnel issues, The tester at work, Test automation, Code coverage  Seven Principles Of Software Development  - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SevenPrinciplesOfSoftwareDevelopment  Emphasizes "soft" issues - attitude, approach.  Principles of Good GUI Design  - http://axp16.iie.org.mx/Monitor/v01n03/ar_ihc2.htm  Describes the basic rules for all good interfaces - the cardinal dos and don'ts.  Orphans Preferred  - http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19991222/mcconnell_01.htm  Characteristics of software developers - personality type, demographics, age, education, attitudes.  Successful Engineering Management: 7 Lessons Learned  - http://www.jrothman.com/Papers/usefulmgmtideas.html  People management advice for technical people.  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.  Heavy Rotation  - http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/w_fiefer_2.html  For business software, faster-cheaper can be better too.  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.  The Therac-25 Accidents  - http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf  Case study of a well known software error.  Essays on System Effectiveness Management  - http://www.geraldmweinberg.com/ReadingStuff/Each_Reading.html/SEM.essays.html  Index to articles written by members of Jerry Weinberg's SEM Group.  Seven Steps to Test Automation Success  - http://www.io.com/~wazmo/papers/seven_steps.html  This paper presents seven key steps: improve the testing process, define requirements, prove the concept, champion product testability, design for sustainability, plan for deployment, and face the challenges of success.  Community for Software Engineers  - http://www.software-engineer.org/  Offers various resources - including news, articles, forum and job board.  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.  What Do Users Want? Engineering Usability into Software  - http://foruse.com/articles/whatusers.htm  User-Centered Design. Simple approaches for delivering smaller, simpler systems that better serve the needs of users.  Large Software Systems - Back to Basics  - http://stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/2000/06/evans.html  John Evans; Crosstalk, June 2000. The importance of software architecture, and related items such as unambiguous requirements and coding standards.  Ten Things Your Mother Never Told You About the Capability Maturity Model  - http://stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/1998/09/kulpa.asp  Margaret Kulpa; Crosstalk, September 1998. Common misconceptions concerning software process improvement and the Software CMM.  Major Causes of Software Project Failures  - http://stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/1998/07/causes.asp  Lorin J. May; Crosstalk, July 1998. Based on interviews with software consultants and practitioners who were asked to provide "autopsies" of failed projects with which they have been acquainted.  Designing and Managing Successful Projects  - http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/wier/design.html  An overview of some simple principles to attain success designing and implementing new projects  The Programmers' Stone  - http://www.reciprocality.org/Reciprocality/r0/  Recapturing, exploring and celebrating the Art of Computer Programming.  Introducing Demeter and its Laws  - http://www.cmcrossroads.com/bradapp/docs/demeter-intro.html  Adaptive Programming - specifying the connections between objects as loosely as possible. Makes programs more flexible, more resilient to change, and more adaptable to varying configurations of classes within a given domain  Building bug-free O-O software: An introduction to Design by Contract (TM)  - http://archive.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/contract/page.html  Advanced use of assertions for clearer specifications and greater software reliability. By OO guru Bertrand Meyer, creator of Eiffel.  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.)  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.)  To Hell and Back  - http://www.cio.com/archive/120198/turk.html  CIOs reveal the projects that did not kill them and made them stronger.