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Cooperative Software Development

Amy J. Ko with contributions from Benjamin Xie

After teaching software engineering for many years, I've been frustrated by the lack of a simple, concise, and practical introduction to the human aspects of software engineering for students interested in becoming software engineers. In response, I've distilled my lectures from the past decade into these brief writings. They don't represent everything we know about software engineering (in particular, I don't discuss the deep technical contributions from the field), but the chapters do synthesize the broad evidence we have about how teams have to work together to succeed. I hope you enjoy! If you see something missing or wrong, Submit an issue or a pull request on GitHub.	Chapter 1. History
	Chapter 2. Organizations
	Chapter 3. Communication
	Chapter 4. Productivity
	Chapter 5. Quality
	Chapter 6. Requirements
	Chapter 7. Architecture
	Chapter 8. Specifications
	Chapter 9. Process
	Chapter 10. Comprehension
	Chapter 11. Verification
	Chapter 12. Monitoring
	Chapter 13. Evolution
	Chapter 14. Debugging

Revision history

July 2020. Revised all chapters to address racism, sexism, and ableism in software engineering.
July 2019. Incorporated newly published work from ICSE, ESEC/FSE, SIGCSE, TSE, and TOSEM.
July 2018. Incorporated newly published work from ICSE, ESEC/FSE, SIGCSE, TSE, and TOSEM.
July 2017. First draft of the book release.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0952733. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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