Building bug-free O-O software: An introduction to Design by Contract (TM)
Advanced use of assertions for clearer specifications and greater software reliability. By OO guru Bertrand Meyer, creator of Eiffel.

Classic Testing Mistakes
The role of testing, Planning the complete testing effort, Personnel issues, The tester at work, Test automation, Code coverage

Heavy Rotation
For business software, faster-cheaper can be better too.

Large Software Systems — Back to Basics
John Evans; Crosstalk, June 2000. The importance of software architecture, and related items such as unambiguous requirements and coding standards.

Lessons Learned -- Current Problems
Technical and managerial best/worst practices. Based on study of US Department of Defense software projects. You Would also find info related to software engineering, program management, manager, project manager's network, DoD, development principle, best practices, department of defense, acquisition, Airlie projects, training, satellite, broadcast and much more.

Major Causes of Software Project Failures
Lorin J. May; Crosstalk, July 1998. Based on interviews with software consultants and practitioners who were asked to provide 'autopsies' of failed projects with which they have been acquainted.

Nine Steps to Delivering Defect-Free Software
By a software developer and consultant with over 30 years experience.

Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century
The advantages of scripting languages - typeless data, smaller code size, greater reuse, higher productivity. By TCL creator John Ousterhout.

Seven Principles Of Software Development
Emphasizes 'soft' issues - attitude, approach.

Successful Engineering Management: 7 Lessons Learned
People management advice for technical people. You Would also find info related to IT management training, software management training, leadership skills, executive development, management consulting, software project management, software product development, executive coaching, software management, management coaching, program manage and much more.

Ten Things Your Mother Never Told You About the Capability Maturity Model
Margaret Kulpa; Crosstalk, September 1998. Common misconceptions concerning software process improvement and the Software CMM.

The Many Dimensions of the Software Process
Explores the importance and purpose of software process and quality. You Would also find info related to Software Engineering, Windows Programming, ACM, Crossroads, ACM Crossroads and much more.

The Programmers' Stone
Recapturing, exploring and celebrating the Art of Computer Programming.

Architecture Paradox
Two articles on Software Architecture Paradox, and how to defy that paradox to design resilient architectures. You Would also find info related to Architecture, Paradox, Constraints, Components, Reflection, Reflective systems, Architecture Paradox, Subrahmanyam, Allamaraju, Structure, Abstraction, Survivability, Evolution, Programming, life-cycle, entropy, Architecture Constraints, Architecture goa and much more.

Classic Mistakes Enumerated
Description of 36 ineffective development practices: people-related, process-related, product-related, technology-related. (Sample chapter from Steve McConnell's book Rapid Development.)

Community for Software Engineers
Offers various resources - including news, articles, forum and job board.

Designing and Managing Successful Projects
An overview of some simple principles to attain success designing and implementing new projects You Would also find info related to system engineering design practice successful projects software management software project management and much more.

Essays on System Effectiveness Management
Index to articles written by members of Jerry Weinberg's SEM Group.

High-Pressure Steam Engines and Computer Software
Software safety. Parallels between the early development of high-pressure steam engines and software engineering that we can apply to the use of computers in complex systems.

Introducing Demeter and its Laws
Adaptive Programming - specifying the connections between objects as loosely as possible. Makes programs more flexible, more resilient to change, and more adaptable to varying configurations of classes within a given domain