Chapter 1: Why Software Engineering?

• “A Bug and a Crash: Sometimes a Bug is More than a Nuisance,” by James Gleick. New York Times Magazine, December 1996.
• “Software Failure Cited in Blackout Investigation” by Dan Verton. Computer World, November 2003.

Chapter 3: Project Planning and Risk Management

• “Painless Software Schedules” by Joel Spolsky. Joel on Software, March 2000.

Chapter 4: Capturing the Requirements

• Check these requirements specification templates from Strategis (Canada).

• Axia consulting (UK) published some (incomplete) sample requirements for a payroll system.

• Requirements of cardiology software (UK).

• Here is a thorough requirements specification template (US).

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