Software Engineering is the computer science discipline concerned with developing large applications. Software engineering covers not only the technical aspects of building software systems, but also management issues, such as directing programming teams, scheduling, and budgeting. [from www.webopedia.com]

Now, the new generation of software processes and products is changing the way organizations develop software. These new approaches - evolutionary, risk-driven, and collaborative software processes; new generation languages and application generators; commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and reuse-driven software approaches; fast-track software development approaches; software process maturity initiatives - lead to significant benefits in terms of improved software quality and reduced software cost, risk and cycle time.

But learning about new practices and techniques is easy, actually changing the way people work is much harder.

Following picture gives an illustration to depict how defects are introduced from different points of view:

I hope we can build the win-win situation by sharing our knowledge. You are in the Knowledge section.

[SWEBOK] Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge , A project of the IEEE Computer Society Professional Practices Committee

[Tao02] Taormina, T., From Quality to Business Success, Quality Progress , April 2002, pp. 40-48

[Ste01] Stephen H. Kan, A Quality Assessment Process for Products Under Development, Ninth International Conference on Practical Software Quality Techniques (PSQT 2001 North), St. Paul, Minnesota, October 9-10, 2001.

[Slides] Slides - Extreme Programming: Extreme Programming is a discipline of software development based on values of simplicity, communication, feedback, and courage. It works by bringing the whole team together in the presence of simple practices, with enough feedback to enable the team to see where they are and to tune the practices to their unique situation.

[Scott] Scott W. Ambler, Agile Modeling (AM) Pamphlet , Agile Modeling

[CMUSEI] CMU SEI, Technical Reports: including all the technical reports which are very useful for software engineering.

[Agile] Agilealliance, White papers from Agilealliance

The International Council on Systems Engineering is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1990. INCOSE is an international authoritative body promoting the application of an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems.

Free Software System Design & Information Systems Management Training and Tutorials from Computer Education, Training, and Tutorial Resources

Material from R.S. Pressman & Associates, Inc : http://www.rspa.com/index.html
RSP&A; software engineering resources are organized within 6 major areas, 40 topics, and 166 subtopics. To branch directly to a specific software engineering area, click below:

• The Software Process
• Software Engineering Practice
• Web Engineering
• Managing Software Projects
• Advanced Topics in Software Engineering
• Glossary, Checklists, Templates, Process Model, Tiny Tools
• Software Engineering Reference Library

Sharing Knowledge is Empowering : This page is the gateway to the sites maintained by Mike Tarrani and Linda Zarate. These sites reflect their professional interests and are made available to promote knowledge in the IT profession.

S2ESC Plans and Policies:
indicates policies / documents recently updated:

• Fundamental Policies : These policies describe fundamental tenets of the work of S2ESC. It is intended that they are very long-lived.
• Strategic Policies : Strategic policies are intended to have a six-year life. They are reviewed every three years.
• Operational Policies : Operational policies are reviewed annually.

SEI Software Technology Roadmap:
The Software Technology Roadmap (STR) is a directed guide containing the latest information on more than 69 software technologies. It is of interest to anyone acquiring, building, or maintaining software intensive systems.

The pragmatic programmer - Articles, Essays, and Presentations.

Software Engineering Course Resources: it is a really a wonderful repository which almost covers every fields of Software Engineering.

NASA -

NASA - the Software Engineering Laboratory

IBM Center for Software Engineering: http://www.research.ibm.com/softeng/home.htm
Three main topics are covered inside:

And also ODC information can be found here

Archives: The Rational Edge - here.

Software Engineering at University of Magdeburg, which contains The Software Measurement Laboratory and The Software Engineering Group.

Software Technology Support Center contains some useful tech report, guidelines and templates.

Tao Xie's Software Engineering Research Links: it is a really a wonderful repository which almost covers every fields of Software Engineering.

Wonderful Chinese web sites: contains a lot of ebooks, especially on computer science. Click newebug , infoxa, netyi, maththinking, Cheap Books, IIeBookHome.com and FlazX.com.
Free Computer Science Ebooks and Resources - A Link Collection

SwANH Software Engineering and Quality SIG

RationalEdge
Chinese version can be found here.

IBM Journal of Research and Development: click here

StickyMinds.com

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