Milestone
Articles of the 1980s—
Compiled by DeMarco & Lister
About the Book
Peopleware authors Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister combed
through ten years' worth of software magazines and journals
and selected 31 of the best articles on software issues.
The articles, originally published in the 1980s, were
chosen for their insights, readability, and enduring
value. More than a dozen sources are represented, including
IEEE Computer, Software Practice & Experience, IEEE
Transactions on Software Engineering, and Communications
of the ACM.
Here's a small sample of the landmark papers represented
in this convenient collection:
Brooks, "No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents
of Software Engineering"
Boehm and Papaccio, "Understanding and Controlling
Software Costs"
Humphrey, "Characterizing the Software Process
-- A?aturity Framework"
Curtis, "Fifteen Years of Psychology in Software?ngineering"
Knuth, "The Errors of TEX"
Bailey and Basili, "A Meta-Model for Software
Development Resource Expenditures"
Selby, Basili, and Baker, "Cleanroom Software
Development"
Weinberg, "Overstructured Management of Software
Engineering"
Petschenik, "Practical Priorities in System Testing"
Jones, "Demographic and Technical Trends in the
Computing Industry"
. . . plus twenty-one more!
Reviews
"Everyone will have his or her own favorite
in this list (mine is Fred Brooks's 'No Silver Bullet'
paper), and there's a good chance that you will
have read (and lost) several of the more familiar
titles. More likely, there will be quite a few that
you have been meaning to read but have been unable
to find. Now you have no excuse . . . buy this book,
then throw away all of the junk that has accumulated
on your desk and bookshelves to make room for this
wonderful new acquisition."
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