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Re: Looking for good book on software engineering - on classics

HaimK

2004-11-16, 3:57 pm

bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) said:

>Two of the best and now thirty years old. Is there even one
>book written in the last decade that belongs on the shelf with
>these?

A pretty good overview has been provided in "Software Engineer's Reference
Book" edited by John McDermid and published in 1991. This is one of the few
books starting with and to a certain extent based on mathematics.

Of course, the two classics -- Proceedings of the 1968 abd 1969 NATO Software
Engineering conferences -- have been valid all the time and may serve as an
excellent source of inspiration. No buzzword compliance there.

Also, "Software fundamentals" by David Parnas (2001).

Hope this helps.

-Haim Kilov
haimk@acm.org

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