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A Plea for Grey-Box Components - by Martin Buchi and Wolfgang Weck.

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

Classic Mistakes Enumerated - Description of 36 ineffective development practices: people-related

Classic Testing Mistakes - The role of testing

Community for Software Engineers - Offers various resources - including news

Designing and Managing Successful Projects - An overview of some simple principles to attain success designing and implementing new projects

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

Heavy Rotation - For business software

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.

History of Component Technology - Explores some of the key events of object-oriented programming and components in the last 50 years in the greater context of general computing history.

Introducing Demeter and its Laws - Adaptive Programming - specifying the connections between objects as loosely as possible. Makes programs more flexible

Large Software Systems - Back to Basics - John Evans; Crosstalk

Lessons Learned -- Current Problems - Technical and managerial best/worst practices. Based on study of US Department of Defense software projects.

Major Causes of Software Project Failures - Lorin J. May; Crosstalk

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

Orphans Preferred - Characteristics of software developers - personality type

Principles of Good GUI Design - Describes the basic rules for all good interfaces - the cardinal dos and don'ts.

Redundant Arrays of Independent Components - A technology that uses a group of identical or similar software components to provide higher reliability

Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century - The advantages of scripting languages - typeless data

Seven Principles Of Software Development - Emphasizes "soft" issues - attitude

Seven Steps to Test Automation Success - This paper presents seven key steps: improve the testing process

Software Methods and Tools - Extensive information on software development tools

Successful Engineering Management: 7 Lessons Learned - People management advice for technical people.

Sure It Works - Some aspects of the relationship between quality and aesthetics (beauty) in software

Survival Crib Notes: NASA's Success Checklist - 9 Dos and 8 Don'ts for software project success

Ten Things Your Mother Never Told You About the Capability Maturity Model - Margaret Kulpa; Crosstalk

The Many Dimensions of the Software Process - Explores the importance and purpose of software process and quality.

The Programmers' Stone - Recapturing

The Therac-25 Accidents - Case study of a well known software error.

To Hell and Back - CIOs reveal the projects that did not kill them and made them stronger.

What Do Users Want? Engineering Usability into Software - User-Centered Design. Simple approaches for delivering smaller