Expert consultants Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister have combed through ten years' worth of software magazines and journals and selected thirty-one of the best articles on software issues. The articles were chosen for their fresh, new insights on the software profession as well as for their readability. More than a dozen sources are represented, including IEEE Computer, Software Practice & Experience, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and Communications of the ACM.

This convenient collection is must reading and an invaluable resource for every software professional. Here's a small sample of the papers:

• Knuth, "The Errors of TEX"
• Petschenik, "Practical Priorities in System Testing"
• Selby, Basili, and Baker, "Cleanroom Software Development"
• Curtis, "Fifteen Years of Psychology in Software Engineering"
• Weinberg, "Overstructured Management of Software Engineering"
• Boehm and Papaccio, "Understanding and Controlling Software Costs"
• Jones, "Demographic and Technical Trends in the Computing Industry"
• Humphrey, "Characterizing the Software Process—A Maturity Framework"
• Brooks, "No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering"
• Bailey and Basili, "A Meta-Model for Software Development Resource Expenditures"