Selected Articles

Software Engineering Autumn 2002

Title

Author(s)

Belongs to (Sommerville 6th ed., chapter)

Read before

Assignment 2 grade points

Part 1

No Silver Bullet

F. Brooks Jr.

general

4/11

4

Seven Myths of Formal Methods

Anthony Hall

9

12/11

3

High-Pressure Steam Engines and Computer Software

Nancy G. Leveson

16 - 18

8/11

3

Design by Contract, section 1.1 - 1.3 of Advances in Object-Oriented Software Engineering

Bertrand Meyer

18.1

7/11

2

Part 2

Software Inspections: An Effective Verification Process

Ackerman, Buchwald, Lewski

19.2

18/11

no

Engineering Software under Statistical Quality Control

R. Cobb, H. Mills

19

18/11

3

Howard Fear on ... Testing 101 (etc.)

Howard Fear

19, 20

18/11

no

The Mythical Man-Month (the article, not the whole book)

F. Brooks Jr.

4.3

29/11

2

Howard Fear on ... Software Engineering (etc.)

Howard Fear

4, 22 - 25

29/11

no

Confessions of a Software Quality Addict

Tracy Hall

25

2/12

3

A Software Process Immaturity Model

A. Finkelstein

25.4

2/12

no

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