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Books on Software Engineering and Architecture

• Software Engineering (568 p.)
  Author: Ian Sommerville (formerly at Lancaster) / Publisher: Addison-Wesley Higher Education, 8th Edition, May 2006 / ISBN-13: 9-78032131379-9.
  Software Engineering, 8th Edition, by prof. Ian Sommerville, St Andrews University, Scotland, UK. Includes presentation slides for teaching classes (PPT and PDF) for the 32 book chapters.

Unified Modeling Language (UML)

• UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (175 pp.)
  Author: Martin Fowler / Publisher: Addison-Wesley, September 2003 / ISBN: 0-321-19368-7.
• Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development (703 pp.)
  Author: Craig Larman / Publisher: Prentice Hall, 3rd edition, October 2004 / ISBN: 0131489062.
• Writting Effective Use Cases (270 pp.)
  Author: Alistair Cockburn / Publisher: Addison-Wesley, January 2000 / ISBN: 0201702258.

Design Patterns

• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (416 pp.)
  Authors: Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides (the Gang of Four - GoF) / Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, October 1994 / ISBN: 0-201-63361-2.
  A Learning Guide To Design Patterns, por Joshua Kerievsky, Industrial Logic, 1997 - 2000.
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (560 pp.)
  Author: Martin Fowler / Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, November 2002 / ISBN: 0-321-12742-0.
  Formerly known as Information System Architecture (ISA). Catalog of Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
• Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models (384 pp.)
  Author: Martin Fowler / Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, October 1996 / ISBN-13: 978-0201895421.

Unified Process (UP)

• The Unified Process Elaboration Phase
  Author: Scott W. Ambler (editor) / Publisher: CMP Books, March 2000 / ISBN: 1-929-62905-2.
• The Unified Process Inception Phase
  Authors: Scott W. Ambler, Larry L. Constantine (editors) / Publisher: CMP Books, 2000 / ISBN: 1929629109.
• The Unified Process Construction Phase
  Authors: Scott W. Ambler, Larry L. Constantine (editors) / Publisher: CMP Books, August 2000 / ISBN: 1-929-62901-X.
• The Unified Process Transition and Production Phases
  Authors: Scott W. Ambler, Larry L. Constantine (editors) / Publisher: CMP Books, December 2001 / ISBN: 1-578-20092-X.
• The Rational Unified Process Made Easy: A Practitioner's Guide to RUP (224 pp.)
  Authors: Per Kroll, Philippe Krutchten / Publisher: Addison-Wesley, April 2003 / ISBN: 0321166094.
• The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction (298 pp.)
  Author: Philippe Kruchten / Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2nd edition, March 2000 / ISBN: 0201707101.
• Building J2EE Applications with the Rational Unified Process (265 pp.)
  Authors: Peter Eeles, Kelli Houston, Wojtek Kozaczynski / Publisher: Addison-Wesley, August 2002 / ISBN: 0201791668.

Agile Development & Extreme Programming (XP)

• The Essential Agile Reading List
  Agile books listing by Patrick Kua, ThoughtWorks, 2008-01-21.
• Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for eXtreme Programming and the Unified Process (400 pp.)
  Author: Scott W. Ambler / Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, March 2002 / ISBN: 0-471-20282-7.
  Agile Modeling Scott Ambler's site.
• The Object Primer: Agile Model Driven Development with UML 2 (545 pp.)
  Author: Scott W. Ambler / Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 3rd edition, March 2004 / ISBN: 0521540186.
• Agile Software Development (278 pp.)
  Author: Alistair Cockburn / Publisher: Addison-Wesley, October 2001 / ISBN: 0201699699.
• Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide (342 pp.)
  Author: Craig Larman / Publisher: Addison-Wesley, August 2003 / ISBN: 0131111558.
• The XP Series Books
  Addison-Wesley Professional, Pearson Education.
  
  • Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change / Kent Beck, Cynthia Andres.
  • Testing Extreme Programming Testing Extreme Programming / Lisa Crispin, Tip House.
  • Extreme Programming for Web Projects / Doug Wallace, Isobel Raggett, Joel Aufgang.
  • Extreme Programming Applied: Playing to Win / Ken Auer, Roy Miller.
  • Extreme Programming Explored / William C. Wake.
  • Extreme Programming Installed / Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, Chet Hendrickson.
  • Planning Extreme Programming / Kent Beck, Martin Fowler.
• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (189 pp.)
  Author: Kent Beck / Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2nd edition, November 2004 / ISBN: 0321278658.
• Planning Extreme Programming (160 pp.)
  Authors: Kent Beck, Martin Fowler / Publisher: Addison-Wesley, October 2000 / ISBN: 0201710919.
• Extreme Programming Books
  List and comments on XP books, by Steve Hayes, Khatovar Technology.

Refactoring

• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (464 pp.)
  Authors: Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke / Publisher: Addison-Wesley, June 1999 / ISBN: 0201485672.
  Refactoring Martin Fowler site.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) & Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): A Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology (384 pp.)
  Authors: Eric A. Marks; Michael Bell / Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, April 2006 / ISBN-13: 978-0-471-76894-4.
• Enterprise Integration Patterns (736 pp.)
  Author: Gregor Hohpe; Bobby Woolf / Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, October 2003 / ISBN-13: 978-0321200686.
  Integration Patterns Overview and Pattern Catalog Table of Contents.
• Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices (408 pp.)
  Authors: Dirk Krafzig; Karl Banke; Dirk Slama / Publisher: Prentice Hall, November 2004 - The Coad Series / ISBN-13: 978-0131465756.
• Enterprise Service Bus (274 pp.)
  Author: David A. Chappell (vice president and chief technologist for SOA at Oracle) / Publisher: O'Reilly Media, June 2004 - Theory In Practice series / ISBN-13: 978-0596006754.
• Open-Source ESBs in Action (480 pp.)
  Authors: Tijs Rademakers; Jos Dirksen / Publisher: Manning, July 2008 / ISBN: 193398821-5.
• Understanding SOA with Web Services (480 pp.)
  Authors: Eric Newcomer (CTO at IONA); Greg Lomow / Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, December 2004 - Independent Technology Guides series / ISBN-13: 978-0-321-18086-5.
• SOA: Principles of Service Design (608 pp.)
  Author: Thomas Erl / Publisher: Prentice Hall, July 2007 / ISBN: 978-0132344821.
  SOA Books - The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl (Official SOA Book Website):
  • Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design
  • Service-Oriented Architecture: A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services
  • SOA Design Patterns

Information Architecture, Interaction Design and Usability

• Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (216 pp.)
  Author: Steve Krug / Publisher: New Riders Publishing, 2nd Edition, August 2005 / ISBN: 0-321-34475-8.
• Prioritizing Web Usability (432 pp.)
  Authors: Jakob Nielsen; Hoa Loranger / Publisher: New Riders Publishing, April 2006 / ISBN: 0-321-35031-6.
• Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed (138 pp.)
  Authors: Jakob Nielsen; Marie Tahir / Publisher: New Riders Publishing, November 2001 / ISBN: 0-73571-102-X.
• Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity (419 pp.)
  Author: Jakob Nielsen / Publisher: New Riders Publishing, December 1999 / ISBN: 1-56205-810-X.
• Jakob Nielsen's Recommended books about Web design, hypertext, and user interfaces.
• Books on UI design and usability testing
  Interaction Design, Inc. recommended books.
• Interaction Design: beyond human-computer interaction (800 pp.)
  Authors: Helen Sharp; Yvonne Rogers; Jenny Preece / Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2nd Edition, March 2007 / ISBN-13: 978-0470018668.
• Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design (352 pp.)
  Author: Jenifer Tidwell / Publisher: O'Reilly Media, November 2005 / ISBN: 0-596-00803-1.
• Designing the User Interface : Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interactivity, (672 pp.)
  Author: Ben Shneiderman / Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 4th Edtion, 2005 / ISBN: 0321197860.
  DTUI Booksite.
• Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience (412 pp.)
  Author: James Kalbach / Publisher: O'Reilly Media, August 2007 / ISBN: 0-596-52810-8.
• User Interface Design for Programmers
  Book by Joel Spolsky, April 2000. Chapters are also available on-line in HTML.
• Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (526 pp.)
  Designing Large-Scale Web Sites.
  Authors: Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld / Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 3rd Edition, November 2006 / ISBN: 0-596-52734-9.
• Ambient Findability (526 pp.)
  What We Find Changes Who We Become.
  Author: Peter Morville / Publisher: O'Reilly Media, September 2005 / ISBN-13: 978-059600765-2.
• Information Architecture for Designers: Structuring Websites for Business Success (160 pp.)
  Autor: Peter Van Dijck / Publisher: RotoVision, 2003 / ISBN: 2-88046-731-4.
• Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works (296 pp.)
  Authors: Kelly Goto; Emily Cotler / Publisher: New Riders Publishing, 2nd edition, December 2004 / ISBN: 0-735-71433-9.
• Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers (288 pp.)
  Author: Sarah Horton / Publisher: New Riders Publishing, July 2005 / ISBN: 032131140X.
  Access by Design Online.
  Sarah Horton Interview, by Alex Barnett, September 19, 2005, Digital Web Magazine. Access by Design Online.
• Understanding Accessibility (195 pp.)
  Author: Robert B. Yonaitis / Publisher: HiSoftware Publishing, June 2002 / ISBN: 1930616031.
  eBook: Understanding Accessibility (English).
• Microsoft Windows User Experience (624 pp.)
  Author: Microsoft Corporation / Publisher: Microsoft Press, August 1999 / ISBN: 1-55615-679-0.
• Usability Related Books
  Listing by Usability Views.
• See also: Web Design: Books