CS190 - Software System Design

Documents

Table of Contents

Lecture Slides

Technical Manuals (including on-line docs)

Resources for Software Engineering

Lecture Slides

Class Handouts

Miscellaneous

Technical Manuals

Version Control and Compilation Tools
- GNU Make (on-line)
- Make. Published documentation available from O'Reilly, click here.
- Recursive Make Considered Harmful. This is a paper on how to write makefiles for multiple subdirectories.
- CVS (Concurrent Revisioning System) manual in html or in postscript. There is also an official FAQ, an introduction, and a tutorial. Here is also a Quickstart guide to CVS.
- RCS (Revision Control System), CVS is built on top of RCS. Published documentation available from O'Reilly. Click here.
Compilers, Tools, and Other Documentation
- dbx, Sun's source-level debugger. There is also a summary of the commands available in dbx.
- Sun's online answer book
- SGI's documentation for their version of the STL.

Resources for Software Engineering

Project Management
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, by DeMarco and Lister.
  This book was "heartily" recommended by Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month (pg. 276).
Software Development Process
- Object-Oriented Modeling and Design, by Rumbaugh, Blaha, et al.
  This book talks about creating a software product from conception up to implementation. It's rather long, since it covers how to design huge software products that take many years/people to develop. However, perhaps it's worth a skim. Sometimes found in the Brown Bookstore, basement computer books section. I have one copy to loan out (for a few days) to anyone who's interested. Those of you prospective project leads might want to look at it to get some ideas on how to proceed with the design portion of the process. --jkh
Software Development Process Joel Young suggested checking into a web site at CMU where they define a process for creating reliable software. The Software Engineering Institute's website describes their capability maturity model.