Annotated Bibliography and References - The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering - page 432

Annotated Bibliography and References
Most of the research for this topic was done using web sources rather than books.
Therefore, it seems best to include an annotated bibliography rather than a stand-
ard set of references. There were also a number of published books used, but web-
sites outnumbered actual books by more than 100 to one. For example, I visited
websites for about 200 corporations and about 25 nonprofit organizations and pro-
fessional associations.
Many of the topics cited in this bibliography are “classics” that have influenced
several decades of software engineering process. For example, Fred Brooks's The
Mythical Man-Month and Jerry Weinberg's Psychology of Computer Program-
ming remain popular today, even though they were first published in the 1970s. In
fact, Brooks's book even had a 25-year special republication with new materials.
Book Sources
Like every major industry, the computer and software industries have attracted au-
thors who are interested in historical and social topics as well as in the actual tech-
nologies of the industry. There are many good books that have historical slants.
Some are pure history, while others mix historical topics with technical issues.
Software engineering also has much to learn from older professions such as medi-
cine and law.
Boehm, Barry. Software Engineering Economics . Prentice Hall, Englewood
Cliffs, NJ, 1981.
This topic is among the best-selling software books of all time, deservedly so.
Dr. Barry Boehm was a pioneer in tackling the complex issues associated with the
architecture, design, and cost predictions for major software projects. This was a
pioneering book that showed many of the factors that influence the results of soft-
ware projects, and it helped to turn software estimation into an effective discipline
with accurate parametric tools.
Brooks, Fred. The Mythical Man-Month . Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA,
1974, rev. 1995.
Dr. Fred Brooks was in charge of the IBM S/360 operating system. This was
the largest IBM software package of the decade and the first to encounter the prob-
lems of cost and schedule overruns, which have become endemic. This topic is a