Textbook Support Sites and General SWE Links

• Lethbridge Table of Contents (pdf)
• Software Engineering Resources from Lethbridge textbook web site.
• Companion website to accompany Pfleeger textbook.
• Software Engineering Resources from R.S. Pressman's textbook web site.
• Software Project Survival Guide Resources from the McConnell textbook. Very Good - check it out!
• Dr. Joe Bergin's web site
• Technical Reports from the Software Engineering Institute.
• IEEE Software Engineering Standards Committee
• Software Engineering for Internet Applications (online text)

Team Skills

• Student Survival Guide to Managing Group Projects
• Leading your leaders
• You're not listening.
• Listening skills     Blocks to Listening     Clarifying Miscommunication    Effective Communication  [pdf]
• The code is just the symptom
• Dilbert Games (humor)
• Herding Cats video (humor)
  

Career

• Gender equity in computing: What Can Men Do?
• Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor
• Sleep as a Competitive Advantage
• Headphones hurt productivity
• the worst things about working at Google

• Programmers should stop calling themselves "engineers".
• Social and Technical Reasons for Software Project Failures by Capers Jones (PDF)
• Why software is so bad. by Charles Mann from Technology Review
• Everything's broken and nobody's upset
• Why Software Fails
• The Exterminators
• THERAC-25: The treatment that killed by Mark Eby
• Death and Denial: The failure of the THERAC-25by A.M. Porrello.
• Qantas airbus flight terror
• ARIANE 5 rocket crash [Read full report]
• Airbus 320 airshow crash    (video)
• NASA Mars projects: Climate Orbiter and Polar Lander failures. New for 2007! Mars Global Surveyor joins the list.
• All Circuits are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse by Dennis Burke
• Commercial airliner shot down by military software   Analysis
• Navy Cruiser disabled by Windows NT defect
• Patriot Missle failure
  
• Toyota Camry crashes and Toyota spaghetti code
• IRS $4 billion project failure
• Labor Department CPI software bug
• San Diego Fireworks Display Mishap
• Internet Explorer Security Hole
• Bank form letter contains profanity
• Companies spend $10 billion on Outlook virus repair.
• EDD mailing error
• SSA benefits miscalculation
• Pepsi lottery error
• United Airlines Fantasy Fares
• INS "watch list" failure
• Crashed Computer Traps Thai Politician
• Unreliability of Web e-commerce (funny)
• FAA project failure
• FBI Deems Its New $170M System As Inadequate
  
• Knight Capital loses $440 million in software glitch   How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes
• Collection of Software Bugs
• Losing Productivity with Windows (humor)
• SLO City IT maintenance nightmare . New Times article, Feb 2010.
• IRS tax cdrom - software install horror story
  
• Year 2000 bug example - Crossroads Video Store invoice
• Airbus wiring CAD flaw      Followup - 10,000 jobs cut
• Adobe GER/DEU discrepancy
• Breathalizer code flaws
• Airport Display Crash (picture)
• "he now praises the iPad" Translate defect
• Video Poker Defect (Integration bug example, CFAA law)
• Reddit ranking bug
• Google Recalls Smoke Detector
• IPod Nano elapsed time defect
• Deleting the Family Tree
• Boeing Dreamliner integer overflow
• Hacker makes plane fly sideways
• Faulty software upgrade halts NYSE
• Hack an Android phone with a long password
• Flash Player Defect: NaN
• Maintenance programmer deletes wrong code, company penalized $8 million.
• Android lightswitch security breach
• MRI software bugs could upend years of research

This page is frequently updated. Additional resources will be added as the quarter progresses.

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