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Books on Software Engineering and Architecture

• Software Engineering (568 pp.)
  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.
• Software Performance and Scalability: A Quantitative Approach (375 p.)
  Author: Henry H. Liu / Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Quantitative software engineering series, Volume 7, May 2009 / ISBN-13: 978-0-470-46253-9. ISBN-10: 0470462531.
  Google Books (0470462531).

Software Architecture

• Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice (712 pp.)
  Authors: Richard N. Taylor; Nenad Medvidovic; Eric Dashofy / Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, January 2009 / ISBN-13: 978-0-470-16774-8. ISBN-10: 0470167742.
  Google Books (0470167742).
• Applied Software Architecture (432 pp.)
  Authors: Christine Hofmeister; Robert Nord; Dilip Soni / Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, March 2009 / ISBN-10: 0-321-64334-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-321-64334-6.
  Google Books (0321643348).
• Software Architecture in Practice (560 pp.)
  Authors: Len Bass; Paul Clements; Rick Kazman / Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, SEI Series in Software Engineering, 2nd Edition, April 2003 / ISBN-10: 0-321-15495-9. ISBN-13: 978-0-321-15495-8.
  Google Books (0321154959).
• Evaluating Software Architectures: Methods and Case Studies (368 pp.)
  Authors: Paul Clements; Rick Kazman; Mark Klein / Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, SEI Series in Software Engineering, October 2001 / ISBN-10: 0-201-70482-X. ISBN-13: 978-0-201-70482-2.
  Google Books (020170482X).
• Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond (560 pp.)
  Authors: Paul Clements; Felix Bachmann; Len Bass; David Garlan; James Ivers; Reed Little; Robert Nord; Judith Stafford / Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, SEI Series in Software Engineering, September 2002 / ISBN-10: 0-201-70372-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-201-70372-6.
  Google Books (0201703726).
• Software Systems Architecture: working with stakeholders using viewpoints and perspectives (576 pp.)
  Authors: Nick Rozanski; Eóin Woods / Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, April 2005 / ISBN-10: 0-321-11229-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-321-11229-3.
  Google Books (0321112296).
• Design and Use of Software Architectures: Adopting and Evolving a Product-line Approach (368 pp.)
  Author: Jan Bosch / Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, May 2000 / ISBN-10: 0-201-67494-7. ISBN-13: 978-0-201-67494-1.
  Google Books (0201674947).
• The Art of Software Architecture: Design Methods and Techniques (336 pp.)
  Author: Stephen T. Albin / Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, April 2003 / ISBN-13: 978-0-471-22886-8.
  Google Books (0471228869).
• Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions (352 pp.)
  Author: Luke Hohmann / Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, The Addison-Wesley signature series (Fowler), January 2003 / ISBN-10: 0-201-77594-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-201-77594-5.
  Google Books (0201775948).
• A Software Architecture Primer (192 pp.)
  Authors: John Reekie; Rohan McAdam / Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, May 2006 / ISBN-13: 9780646458410. ISBN-10: 0646458418.
  Foundations of Software Architecture, a course based on the book. Wiki: Software Architecture Primer.
  Google Books (0646458418).
• Software Architecture Knowledge Management: Theory and Practice (279 pp.)
  Authors: Muhammad Ali Babar; Torgeir Dingsøyr; Patricia Lago; Hans van Vliet / Publisher: Springer, October 2009 / ISBN-13: 9783642023736. ISBN-10: 3642023738.
  Google Books (3642023738).
• 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts (200 pp.)
  Author: Richard Monson-Haefel / Publisher: O'Reilly Media, February 2009 / ISBN-10: 059652269X. ISBN-13: 9780596522698.
  Google Books (059652269X).

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.
• Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture (POSA) series
  Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.
  Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: A System of Patterns, Volume 1 (476 pp.); Authors: Frank Buschmann, Regine Meunier, Hans Rohnert, Peter Sommerlad, Michael Stal / August 1996 / ISBN: 0471958697.
  Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects, Volume 2 (666 pp.); Authors: Douglas C. Schmidt, Michael Stal, Hans Rohnert, Frank Buschmann / 2000 / ISBN: 0-471-60695-2.
  Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: Patterns for Resource Management, Volume 3 (315 p.); Authors: Michael Kircher, Prashant Jain / April 2004 / ISBN: 0-470-84525-2.
  Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing, Volume 4 (636 pp.); Authors: Frank Buschmann, Kevlin Henney, Douglas C. Schmidt / 2007 / ISBN: 0470059028.
  Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: On Patterns and Pattern Languages, Volume 5 (490 p.); Authors: Frank Buschmann, Kevlin Henney, Douglas C. Schmidt / 2007 / ISBN: 0471486485.
  
• 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.
• Refactoring To Patterns (400 pp.)
  Author: Joshua Kerievsky / Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, August 2004 /
  ISBN-10: 0-321-21335-1, ISBN-13: 978-0-321-21335-8.
  Refactoring To Patterns Catalog: 27 refactorings from the book.
  PDF version 1.13, 2001.
• 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.

Enterprise Architecture and BPM

• 2009 BPM and Workflow Handbook (300 pp.)
  Edited by Layna Fischer / Publisher: Future Strategies, in association with the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), June 2009 / ISBN: 978-0-9777527-9-9.

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

• SOA in Practice (342 pp.)
  Author: Nicolai M. Josuttis / Publisher: O'Reilly Media, August 2007 / ISBN-13: 978-0-596-52955-0.
  Google Preview (0596529554).
• 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.
  SOA Park.
• Enterprise Service Bus (274 pp.)
  Author: David A. Chappell (former 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.)
  Author: Peter Van Dijck / Publisher: RotoVision, 2003 / ISBN-10: 2-88046-731-4. ISBN-13: 978-2880467319.
• The Information Design Handbook (224 pp.)
  Authors: Jenn Visocky O'Grady; Ken Visocky O'Grady / Publisher: RotoVision, September 2008 / ISBN: 978-2-940361-91-5.
• 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.
  MSDN Library: Microsoft Windows User Interface.
  Microsoft Download: Windows User Experience Guidelines.
• Usability Related Books
  Listing by Usability Views.
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