Reading

Recommended Reading

The following is the recommended reading list and additional (advanced) reading list for this module. This list will be updated during the semester. please email me any suggestions for additions, corrections, etc.

Books (recommended reading)

	S.Zahran, Software Process Improvement, Addison Wesley
	T. Dyba, T. Diingsoyr and N. Brede-Moe SPI in Practice (A Handbook for IT Companies), Kluwer
	W.S. Humphrey. Managing the Software Process. Addison-Wesley, 1989.

Safari on-line Books

	Note: Check with Library on access to these from outside campus
	Making Process Improvement Work: A Concise Action Guide for Software Managers and Practitioners By Neil S. Potter, Mary E. Sakry
	CMMI Distilled: A Practical Introduction to Integrated Process Improvement, Second Edition, Dennis M. Ahern; Aaron Clouse; Richard Turner
	Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering, By Stephen H. Kan
	Software Project Management in Practice By Pankaj Jalote
	Quality Software Project Management, Robert T. Futrell, Donald F. Shafer, Linda I. Safer

Websites and other useful material

Process Guides

	Example process guide document PDF 1.1MB
	Samples extract (Requirements) of PG (MindMap) PDF
	How to write a PG (Microtools example) PDF
	[Article] on developing Electronic Process Guides PDF

CMMI - These are the official official documents

	CMMI-SW, V1.1, Staged PDF 600 pages !!!
	CMMI-SW, V1.1, Continuous PDF 600 pages !!!

Process Assessment

	[Article]Adept: A Unified Assessment Method for Small Software Companies PDF
	[Article] A Low-overhead method for software process appraisal pdf

Software Inspection

Niels Malotaux Inspections Booklet (PDF)

Agile and XP

	Extreme Programming from a CMM Perspective, IEEE Software PDF
	Introducing XP in a Startup, XP2002 Conference paper PDF
	XP Distilled PDF

General

	[Article] ISO 29110 Standard pdf
	[Article] ISO 29110 Standard (short) pdf
	[Article] Investigating software process in practice pdf

Process measurement

AMI in industry http://www.iscn.com/news/sp96/c.debou.html

Business benefits

http://www.iscn.com/news/sp96/s.zahran.html

SEI IDEAL

	Web site - http://www.sei.cmu.edu/ideal
	Ideal case study - http://www.sei.cmu.edu/ideal/ideal.case.study.html

Return on Investment

http://www.dacs.dtic.mil/techs/roispi2/

Useful websites

	The XP Site - http://www.extremeprogramming.org
	XP FAQ - http://www.jera.com/techinfo/xpfaq.html
	Software Engineering Institute (SEI) - http://www.sei.cmu.edu
	European Software Institute (ESI) - http://www.esi.es/
	Software Process Resources http://www2.umassd.edu/SWPI/SWPIpage.html
	Software Productivity Consortium http://www.software.org/
	Bootstrap Institute http://www.bootstrap-institute.com/
	AGSE http://wwwagse.informatik.uni-kl.de/

Case Studies

	FMW
	Cunav
	Engineering Informatica
	Advent (PSP)
	Peregrine Systems
	Schaffner

Books (additional reading)

Daniel Galin, Software Quality Assurance, Pearson Education, ISBN 0 201 70945 7, Website
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, Website for 7/e and Website for 8/e
Roger Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, Website
Hans Van Vliet, Software Engineering: principles and practice, Website for 2/e
Maciaszek L.A. and Liong B.L., Practical Software Engineering, Addison Wesley, 2005, , Website

A Practical Guide to Information Systems Process Improvement, by A. Cassidy, et al (2000)
Managing the Software Process, by W. Humphrey (1989)
The Capability Maturity Model: Guidelines for Improving the Software Process, by M. Paulk, et al (1995)
R.G. Ebenau. Software inspection process. McGraw-Hill, 1994.
K. El Emam and N.H. Madhavji (eds).Elements of software process assessment and improvement. IEEE Computer Society, 1999.
C.P. Hollocker. Software reviews and audits handbook.Wiley, 1990.
Software Engineering Standards, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1999.
M.A. Jackson. Software requirements & specifications: a lexicon of practice, principles, and prejudices. Addison-Wesley, 1995.
I. Jacobson, G. Booch, J. Rumbaugh. The unified software development process. Addison-Wesley, 1999.
P. Jalote. CMM in practice: Processes for executing software projects at Infosys. Addison-Wesley, 2000.
L.A. Maciaszek. Requirements Analysis and System Design. Addison-Wesley, 2001.
S. Maguire. Debugging the development process: practical strategies for staying focused, hitting ship dates, and building solid teams. Microsoft Press, 1994.
E. G. McGuire (Ed). Software process improvement: concepts and practices. Idea Group Pub., 1999.
R. Pressman.A Manager's Guide to Software Engineering.McGraw-Hill, 1993.
J. Raynus. Software process improvement with CMM. Artech House, 1999.
S. Robertson and J. Robertson. Mastering the requirements process. Addison-Wesley, 1999.
R.H. Thayer. Software requirements engineering. 2nd Edition, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997
D.A. Wheeler. Software inspection: an industry best practice. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1996.