Useful Links

Useful Links - Software Engineering

• Software Engineering
  • Web Resources: http://www.rspa.com/spi
  • Software Engineering Reference Library: http://www.rspa.com/RefLib
  • Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) - http://nas.uhcl.edu/helm/swebok_ieee/ or https://www.computer.org/web/swebok
  • Software Engineering Checklists: http://www.rspa.com/checklists
  • Adaptable Process Model: http://www.rspa.com/apm
  • Work Product Templates: http://www.rspa.com/docs
  • Umbrella Activities:http://www.rspa.com/apm/apm01.html#umbrella
  • Tiny Tools: http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/tinytools/
  • Industry Commentary: Industry Commentary-Management See content of http://www.mhhe.com/engcs/compsci/pressman/olc_linkedcontent/mgmtcomm.htm
  • Industry Commentary-Technical See content of http://www.mhhe.com/engcs/compsci/pressman/olc_linkedcontent/techcomm.htm
  • Supplementary Content: See content at: http://www.mhhe.com/engcs/compsci/pressman/information/olc/supps.mhtml
  • Distance Learning http://www.rspa.com/eSchool
  • COCOMO II - http://sunset.usc.edu/csse/research/COCOMOII/cocomo_main.html

• Coding Standards
  • C++ Coding Standard - http://www.possibility.com/Cpp/CppCodingStandard.html
  • GNU coding standards - http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/
  • Drupal coding standards - http://drupal.org/coding-standards/
  • CERT Secure Coding Standards - https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/CERT+Secure+Coding+Standards
  • CERT C Secure coding standard - https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/CERT+C+Secure+Coding+Standard

• UML
  • UML 2 Class Diagram Guidelines - http://www.agilemodeling.com/style/classDiagram.htm
  • UML 2 Class Diagrams - http://www.agilemodeling.com/artifacts/classDiagram.htm

• SFU Specific
  • FASnet User Guide http://www2.fas.sfu.ca/fasnet/doc/userguide/
  • New grad FAQ http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~csgsa/newgrad/faq.html
  • CSIL course software - http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/school-facilities/csil/windows/software.html

• Apple
  • Apple Developer http://developer.apple.com/
  • iOS Developer Library - http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/navigation/
  • iPhone Dev Center - http://developer.apple.com/iphone/
  • iPhone Developer Program - http://developer.apple.com/iPhone/program/
  • Apple iPhone information - http://www.apple.com/iphone/
  • iPhone Developer University Program - http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/university.html
  • Stanford CS 193P iPhone Application Programming http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php

• Misc
  • Video Lectures - http://videolectures.net
  • Voice and Presentation Skills - http://www.lidc.sfu.ca/learning/enhancement/presentation/
  • Stack Overflow - Q&A for professional and enthusiast programmers - http://stackoverflow.com/

• LaTeX
  • PDF LaTeX by example - http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~kd/latextut/pdfbyex.htm
  • Online tutorials on LaTeX - http://www.tug.org.in/tutorials.html
  • Text processing using LaTeX - http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/LaTeX_intro.html
  • Dissertation example - http://complex.umd.edu/INDEX/dissertation.html
  • Equation editor - http://test.izyba.com/equationeditor/equationeditor.php
  • Winedit - http://www.winedt.com
  • BibSonomy ::A social bookmark and publication sharing system. - http://www.bibsonomy.org/
  • Guidelines for Dissertations, Theses, Project Reports, Term Papers, Technical Reports, and Conference Papers - http://www.cse.msstate.edu/~allen/Msuthesis/index.html

• JUnit
  • JUnit web site - http://www.junit.org/
  • JUnit FAQ - http://junit.sourceforge.net/doc/faq/faq.htm
  • JUnit Cookbook - http://junit.sourceforge.net/doc/cookbook/cookbook.htm
• Courses
  • National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning(NPTel) http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/
  • Lecture Series on Software Engineering by Prof.N.L. Sarda, Prof. Umesh Bellur, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Bombay - link
  • Stanford University's CS 106A "Programming Methodology" - link
• Other
  • SFU's Student Learning Commons - http://learningcommons.sfu.ca/
  • UBC's Learning Enhancement Academic Partnership Program - http://leap.ubc.ca/

Languages

• C/C++/Objective-C
  • A C++ Tutorial for Java Programmers- http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~hasti/cs368/CppTutorial/main.html
  • Objective-C Beginnger's Guide - http://www.otierney.net/objective-c.html

• Java
  • Sun Java - http://www.java.com/en/
  • The Java Tutorial - http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/
  • Java Developer Tutorials and Training - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index-jsp-135888.html
  • Other
    • BlueJ - http://www.bluej.org/
  • IDE for Java
    • Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/
    • NetBeans - http://www.netbeans.org/
    • JCreator - http://www.jcreator.com/

Extra Readings

• "Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla" link
• "On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules" link
• "Software risk management: principles and practices by Barry Boehm" link
• "How Microsoft builds software" link

Links to other people or research groups

• Researchers
  • Dirk Beyer, University of Passau - http://www.sosy-lab.org/~dbeyer/
  • Tao Xie's Software Engineering Readings
  • Steve McConnell - http://www.stevemcconnell.com/
  • Ian Sommerville - http://www.software-engin.com/
  • Frederick P. Brroks, Jr. - http://www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks/
  • Barry Boehm - http://sunset.usc.edu/people/barry.html
  • Software Arch - http://www.softwarearchitecturebook.com/svn/main/slides/ppt/
• Organizations
  • SFU Software Technology Lab (Uwe Glässer ) - http://stl.sfu.ca/
  • Software Engineering Institute - Carnegie Mellon - http://www.sei.cmu.edu/
  • Software Productivity Center Inc. - http://www.spc.ca/

Text

• Software Engineering textbook by Ivan Marsic http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/~marsic/books/SE/
• How to Design Programs - http://htdp.org/ and http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/index.html
• Rory Lewis' text (iOS dev.) - LINK

Templates

• Pressman documents - http://www.rspa.com/spi/documents.html
• Tigris.org - Open Source Software Engineering Tools - http://readyset.tigris.org/
• Document Templates for Student Projects in Software Engineering by D. Delaney and S. Brown (August 2002) - file

Periodicals

You should read these journal and magazine regularly to keep up with the profession:

• Communications of the ACM - http://cacm.acm.org/
• ACM Software Engineering Notes - http://www.sigsoft.org/SEN/
• IEEE Computer -
• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
• ACM Transactions on Database Systems
• ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

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