List of software engineering topics

Table of contents

1 Software engineering technologies and practices
2 Approaches to programming practice
3 Life cycles and strategies
4 Life cycle phases
5 Management issues
6 Notable unsolved problems
7 Notable software engineers
8 Notable applications
9 Notable disasters
10 Notable books
11 Related Fields
12 Related Wikipedia Pages
13 Related web sites

Software engineering technologies and practices

Programming languages
- Fortran
- Cobol
- C
- Java
- C++
- Visual Basic
Relational databases
- SQL
Software tools
- Configuration management or source code management
  - Make
  - CVS
  - RCS
- Editors
  - text editors
  - program editors
  - word processors
Design languages
- UML
Decision tables
Patterns and Anti-patterns document many common programming and project management techniques.
Software development processes
- ISO 9000
- CMM and CMMI
- Rational unified process RUP
- Extreme Programming, Agile software development, Lean software development
Platformss. As platforms have become more powerful, tools have become available on less expensive platforms and more widely available.
- Cray supercomputers
- Oberon-bwa
- Business Management Systems p2p
- IBM mainframes
- Linux
- Mac OS/Mac OS X
- UNIX
- Wintel PCs

Life cycle phase
Development stage
Requirements gathering
Requirements analysis
Software architecture
Computer programming
Testing, focuses on detecting (preventing?) bugs
- Black box testing
- White box testing
- Clear box testing
Quality assurance, ensures compliance with process. It is a misnomer because it is not about quality and it is not about testing.

John Backus: Fortran, first optimizing compiler
Kent Beck: Refactoring, Extreme programming (pair programming, test driven development).
Tim Berners-Lee: World wide web
Barry Boehm: Software economics, COCOMO, Spiral model.
Grady Booch: Object-oriented design, UML.
Fred Brooks: Managed System 360 and OS 360. Wrote The Mythical Man-Month and "No Silver Bullet".
Edsger Dijkstra: Author of A Discipline of Programming
Michael Fagan: Code inspection.
Tom Gilb: Evolutionary processes.
Grace Hopper: First compiler (Mark 1), COBOL.
Watts S. Humphrey: Capability Maturity Model, headed (founded?) the Software Engineering Institute.
Jean Ichbiah: Ada
Bill Joy: Berkeley Unix, VI, Java.
Brian Kernighan: C and Unix.
Donald Knuth : Author of The Art of Computer Programming
Bertrand Meyer: Design by Contract, Eiffel programming language.
Peter G. Neumann: Computer risks, ACM Sigsoft.
David Parnas: Module design, social responsibility, professionalism.
Jef Raskin: Developed original Macintosh GUI
Dennis Ritchie: C and Unix.
Winston W. Royce: Waterfall model.
Will Tracz: Reuse, ACM Software Engineering Notes.
Richard Stallman: Founder of the Free Software Foundation
Gerald Weinberg: Wrote The Psychology of Computer Programming.
Ed Yourdon: Structured programming, wrote The Decline and Fall of the American Programmer.

About Face, by Alan Cooper
The Mythical Man-Month, by Fred Brooks: Written at UNC describing what Brooks learned from IBM's OS 360 project.
The Capability Maturity Model, by Watts Humphrey. Written for the Software Engineering Institute, emphasizing management. Humphreys was a VP at IBM.
The Psychology of Computer Programming, by Gerald Weinberg. Written as an independent consultant, partly about his IBM years.
The Fall of the American Programmer by Ed Yourdon.
Object-oriented Analysis and Design by Grady Booch.
Design Patterns by Gang of Four.
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke and Don Roberts
Peopleware, by Tom DeMarco.
Principles of Software Engineering Management by Tom Gilb.