Textbook Support Sites and General SWE Links

• Online Resources for Braude textbook.
• Software Project Survival Guide Resources from the McConnell textbook. Very Good - check it out!
• Software Engineering Resources from R.S. Pressman's textbook web site.
• Tom Gilb's web site.
• Dr. Joe Bergin's web site
• Articles from the Software Engineering Institute.
• IEEE Software Engineering Standards Committee

Project Management

• Software Development Checklists
• Survival Checklist Supplement
• Lessons Learned in previous 205 classes
• Skills for Software Engineers
• How to give a presentation (pdf)
• 6 habits of strategic thinkers
• Dilbert Games (humor)

• Quality Tree Resource Page
• Sample Black Box unit test (Word document)
• White Box Testing Worksheet

IDE's

• Together and Together Quick Start guide.  Download Version 4.1.
• mUML - UML diagramming tool (free demo)
• iContract - Design by Contract for Java

• Frequently used UNIX commands
• JMetric Java Metrics Toolkit (LOC, etc.). It's Free (including source) and written in Java.
• John's Lines of Code Counter
• Astyle source code formatter and sample batch file.
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• Windows Folder Size Property Page. Very convenient shell extension for Windows to tell you the size of folders from within Explorer.

• PSP Process Script
• Time Recording Log and Instructions (Microsoft Word Document OR HTML)
• Defect Tally form and Instructions (Microsoft Word Document)
• (Optional) Defect Recording Log and Instructions (Microsoft Word Document)
• Project Summary Form (Microsoft Word Document OR HTML) and Directions (HTML)
• PSP Process FAQ
• Sample of finished Time Log and Summary Form
• Time Logging Tool for Windows
• John's Lines of Code Counter
• References: Intro to Personal Software Process and A Discipline for Software Engineering by Watts Humphrey.

• Java in a very small Nutshell
• Java Pitfalls and Java Gotchas
• Sun's Java Tutorial: Learning the Java Language
• Sun's Java Tutorial: Java Input/Output Streams
• Java Lesson 102: Dealing with Classes
• Java Lesson 104: Inheritance
• Training Assignments:  Wonky, ATM Simulator
• Sun's online Java Tutorial
• Java Coffee Break tutorials and resources
• An index to over 25 Java tutorials!
• Why you should never use float to represent money: Bad Money Example

• Java Programming Resources List (Nicely organized in one page, maintained at John Hopkin's University)
• Sun's Java Developer Connection - find out straight from source.
• Professor Kevin Sullivan's Learning Java Resources Index Page
• Cetus-Links Java Tools - extensive links to tools and resources
• Java Developer Central at iPlanet.com
• Java Game Development Center
• Netscape's directory for computers.programming.languages.Java
• Cal Tech coding standards
• Making Sense of Java (technical discussion of hype vs. reality)
• TableSelection: Proof of Concept
• Faking enumerated types in Java
• John's Intro to Java Programming Course Web Site
• List of alternative languages for the Java Virtual Machine.

• Home of the Brave Ada Programmers
• Ada tutorial on the web.
• SIG Ada home page
• SIGAda Education Resources Web Site
• Comparing development costs of C and Ada- a study by Rational Corp.
• GNAT for Linux: C++ and Java under fire
• Ada compiler for Intel-based PC's: Meridian.zip [868K]

• 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
• 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.
• IRS_mailing error
• SSA benefits miscalculation
• The Year 2000 (Y2K) Problem
• FAA project failure
• Losing Productivity with Windows (humor)

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

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