Textbook Support Sites and General SWE Links

• Companion website to accompany Lethbridge textbook.
• 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!
• Tom Gilb's web site.
• Dr. Joe Bergin's web site
• Articles from the Software Engineering Institute.
• IEEE Software Engineering Standards Committee

Team Skills

• Student Survival Guide to Managing Group Projects
• Listening skills
• Blocks to Listening
• Effective Communication  [pdf]
• Personality Type Inventory
• Dilbert Games (humor)

• Why software is so bad. by Charles Mann from Technology Review
• THERAC-25: The treatment that killed by Mark Eby
• Death and Denial: The failure of the THERAC-25by A.M. Porrello.
• ARIANE 5 rocket crash [Read full report]
• NASA Mars projects: Climate Orbiter and Polar Lander failures.
• All Circuits are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse by Dennis Burke
• Commercial airliner shot down by military software
• Navy Cruiser disabled by Windows NT defect
• IRS $4 billion project failure
• Labor Department CPI software bug
• 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
  
• Collection of Software Bugs
• Losing Productivity with Windows (humor)
• Adobe GER/DEU discrepancy

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

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