SOFTWARE TASK GROUP
Resource List

This list of resources is provided to all software professionals. Resources are listed as they relate to the CSQE Body of Knowledge. All resources have been peer reviewed by members of the Software Task Group.

We welcome additions to this list. Please send along title and author information and we will evaluate your submissions. Send to Trudy Howles, Task Group Chair.

Follow the links to
Certifications/CertifiedSoftwareQualityEngineer (CSQE)/References
for a complete list of titles recommended by the ASQ.

Humphrey, W. Managing the Software Process. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1995.

Pressman, Robert S. Software Engineering A Practitioner's Approach. Fifth Edition. Boston, Ma: McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence. Software Engineering Theory and Practice. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 2001.

The IEEE publishes standards on many topics relevant to software quality. The standards themselves are available for purchase at a significant price. You may be able to reference them at no charge at your local library.

DODSSP.DAPS.MIL (not www). This is the Department of Defense Single Stock Point web site and contains public domain documents that can be accessed free as .pdf from the site. Use ASSIST and QUICK SEARCH, or for a more in-depth search, apply for a free account.

WWW.FDA.GOV/CDRH The Food and Drug Administration has strong software quality requirements and has published a number of guidance documents which can be found using their search engine at this site. It also gives you several national or international standards if you search using the keyword SOFTWARE.

WWW.NIST.GOV The National Institute of Standards and technology is chartered to provide resources that will help the US be more competitive. Their web site includes a software resource category that includes free tools, among other things.

WWW.GLOBAL.IHS.COM Most standards-writing organizations are backing out of issuing paper standards as fast as they can, and Global Information Services is the US clearinghouse for their standards. A search of their holdings will tap most of the global standards organizations together. If a standard has been written on software quality, it will likely show up on their search engine.

WWW.ANSI.ORG/INTERNET_RESOURCES The American National Standards Institute has a list of US standards-writing organizations which includes organizations in the IT community.

Check out these web sites:

Software Quality Engineering - www.sqe.com

StickyMinds - a clearinghouse for software info - stickyminds.com

The Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon - www.sei.cmu.edu

The Software Quality Institute at the University of Texas at Austin - http://lifelong.engr.utexas.edu/sqi/index.cfm

The ASQ has a Code of Ethics which can be found on the ASQ's web site at www.asq.org. Follow the links to About-ASQ/Code Of Ethics.

Humphrey, W. Managing the Software Process. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1995.

Crosby, Philip B. Quality is Free. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979.

Deming, W. Edwards. Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, Ma: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Engineering Study, 1998.

Ealey, Lance A. Quality by Design. Taguchi Methods in US Industry, 2nd Ed. The American Supplier Institute. Irwin Professional Publishing, Burr Ridge, Illinois. 1994.

Ishikawa, Kaoru. What is Total Quality Control? The Japanese Way. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985.

Juran, Joseph M. Quality Control Handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988.

Shewhart, W.A. Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product. New York: D. Van Norstrand Co., 1931.

Taguchi, Genichi and Yu-in Wu. Introduction to Offline Quality Control. Negaya, Japan: Central Japan Quality Control Association, 1979.

Crosby, Philip B. Quality is Free. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979.

Blanchard, Ken and Sheldon Bowles. Gung Ho!. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1998.

Blanchard, Ken and Sheldon Bowles. Raving Fans. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1993.

Johnson, Spencer, M.D. Who Moved My Cheese?. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1998.

DeMarco, Tom. Slack . See his web site at
www.systemsguild.com/GuildSite/TDM/Tom_DeMarco.html

Pressman, Robert. A Manager's Guide to Software Engineering. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992.

XP - see the web site www.extremeprogramming.org

Kan, Stephen. Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1995.

Myers, Glenford. The Art of Software Testing . John Wiley & Sons, 1979.

Gerald Weinberg has authored many books in this area.

Check also John Musa and SRE (Software Reliability Engineering). http://members.aol.com/JohnDMusa/

James Bach. www.satisfice.com

Also see the article Software Configuration Management for Project Leaders by Tim Kasse and Patricia A. McQuaid. This was also published in Fundamental Concepts for the Software Quality Engineer, Taz Daughtrey, Editor.

Software Quality Professional published by the ASQ Software Division
http://www.asq.org

STQE Magazine
http://www.stqemagazine.com/

The book Fundamental Concepts for the Software Quality Engineer, Taz Daughtrey, Editor contains a number of peer reviewed manuscripts, each related to a BOK. This book is available from the ASQ on-line bookstore and Amazon.