Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach

NRO Program Management Course / Offsite - 19 June 2000

This was a pretty comprehensive (if over-wordy) book back when I was in university. It tries to highlight the current best practices of software development methodology. Unfortunately, it probably doesn't highlight the really up-to-date stuff. Even back then it was more focused on structured design rather than object-oriented best practices, such as doing white box testing and data flow diagrams. There are some gems in there, like the discussions on metrics and formal methods, but the writing is somewhat verbose, making it difficult to sift through.