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Pitfalls - sources


WWW sites

1. AntiPatterns Home Page
   
2. Anti-Pattern in Wikipedia
   
3. The Standish Group Chaos home page, research on failed SW projects. Note: there are several releases of the "Chaos Report".
   
4. 30 Pitfalls for Real-Time Software Developers
   
5. More Pitfalls for Real-Time Software Developers
   
6. Object-Oriented Development Pitfalls
   
7. Portland Pattern Repository's Wiki Anti Patterns Catalog
   
8. Programming bugs, Wikipedia article
   
9. Fact-Index Anti Patterns Catalog
   
10. Software Program Managers Network/Lessons learned
    
11. Configuration Management/Branching Pitfalls
    
12. Common security vulnerabilities and exposures
    
13. Keel Meta Framworks anti-patterns
    
14. "How to Avoid Use-Case Pitfalls", S. Lilly, Software Development OnLine, January 2000
    
15. Common Software Development Pitfalls,The Software Developers Knowledge Base
    
16. Codesmells - hints that something is wrong in the code
    
17. The Daily WTF - examples of bad code and discussion why/why not it is bad
    
18. Common C programming errors, University of Western Ontario
    
19. Common programming errors, a personal list
    
20. C++ pitfalls, San Jose State University
    
21. Library of Failed Information Systems Projects University of Wolverhampton, School of Computing & IT
    
22. How to write unmaintanable code, i.e. typical programming pitfalls
    
23. OWASP's list of common Internet vulnerabilities
    
24. MITRE's Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures List
    
25. Collection of Software Bugs, Prof. Thomas Huckles list
    
26. Software Nightmares, Original Software
    
27. The top 10 IT disasters of all time, ZDNet.co.uk, 22 Nov 2007
    
    

1. "Process Anti Patterns", White Paper, 2003, version 2.0, Select Business Solutions
   
2. "Survey shows 100% experience of failed IT projects", Unilog Press Release, 10.6.2003
   
3. F. P. Brooks, Jr.: The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Addison-Wesley 1995
   
4. Brown, W.J. et. al.: AntiPatterns in Project Management, John Wiley & Sons, 2000
   
5. W.J. Brown, et.al.: Anti Patterns. Refactoring Software Architectures, and Projects in Crisis, Wiley, 1998
   
6. W. J. Brown, Hays W., I. McCormick, S. W. Thomas: Anti-Patterns and Patterns in Software Configuration Management, Wiley&Sons, 1999
   
7. B. Chelf: "Avoiding the Most Common Software Development Goofs. Exploring the root causes of many coding defects and possible solutions", Dr. Dobb's Portal, September 17, 2006
   
8. M. Eisenstadt: "My hairiest bug war stories", Communications of the ACM, pp. 30 - 37, April 1997
   
9. R. L. Glass: Software Runaways - Lessons Learned from Massive Software Failure, Prentice Hall, 1998
   
10. P.A. Laplante, C.J. Neill: Antipatterns: Identification, Refactoring, and Management, CRC Press, 2006
    
11. J. Long: "Software Reuse Antipatterns", Software Engineering Notes, pp. 68 - 76, July 2001
    
12. S. McConnell: ”An Ounce of Prevention”, IEEE Software, pp. 5 - 7, May/June 2001
    
13. B. McLaughlin: "Six Common Enterprise Programming Mistakes", onJava.com, April 3, 2002
    
14. J. Mather, J. Somerville, K. Spitznagel: "Top Ten Pitfalls of Wireless Application Development", Outr.Net Newsletter, March 12, 2001
    
15. G. Pope: "Software Development Worst Practices", Better Software, pp. 32 - 36, March 2008
    
16. B. Tate, M. Clark, B. Lee, P. Linskey: Bitter EJB, Manning Publications, 2003
    
17. J. Tabaka: 11 Ways Agile Adoptions Fail, StickyMInds.com 6/4/2007