Beautiful Testing
Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software
By Tim Riley, Adam Goucher
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Final Release Date: October 2009
Pages: 350
Beautiful Teams
Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders
By Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Final Release Date: March 2009
Pages: 510
Chapter 7 Bringing the Music Industry into the 21st Century: One Lawsuit at a Time
A New Project, A New Team
A Calculated Risk …
Gentlemen, Start Your Rippers…
The Final Month
I Am So Smart: S-M-R-T … S-M-A-R-T
Engineering Department Smokes a Collective Cigarette
Intermission: The Founding of a Panda Preserve
"You Realists Can Stay the Hell Out of Our Office!"
Not with a Bang, But with a Whimper …
Epilogue
Afterword
Chapter 8 Inner Source
Goals
Chapter 9 Creating Team Cultures
Chapter 10 Putting the "I" in Failure
Chapter 11 Planning
Chapter 12 The Copyfighters Take Mordor
Chapter 13 Defending the Free World
Chapter 14 Saving Lives
Practices
Chapter 15 Building a Team with Collaboration and Learning
Selling Management
Getting Started
Growing the Team
Pressing the Envelope and the Process Police
Learning
Requirements Versus On-Site Customer
Trouble in River City
Companies Make Their Own Troubles
Future Projects
Collaboration Success Factors
References
Chapter 16 Better Practices
Chapter 17 Memories of TRW's Software Productivity Project: A Beautiful Team, Challenged to Change the CultureEditors' note: if you've worked on a software team in the past 20 years, you have been influenced by Barry Boehm. He was one of the first people to take a systematic approach to estimating and planning software projects. And many people (including us) believe that his pioneering Spiral Model is the direct predecessor to the modern idea of iterative development.
Background on the Software Productivity Project
Making the Project a Reality
Project Stories
Conclusion
References
Acknowledgments
Chapter 18 Building Spaceships
Chapter 19 Succeeding with Requirements: A Drama in Three Acts
The Setting
The Cast
Prologue: Paul Is in a Pickle
Act I: Girding Our Loins
Act II: Use Cases, Schmuse Cases
Act III: Look Over My Shoulder
Epilogue: Let's Eat!
Coda: Then What Happened?
Useful References
Acknowledgments
Chapter 20 Development at Google
Chapter 21 Teams and Tools
How Open Source Projects Work
The Contribulyzer
Commit Emails and Gumption Sinks
They're Staying Away in Droves: A Tale of Two Translation Interfaces
Conclusion
Chapter 22 Research Teams
Chapter 23 The HADS Team
The Background
The Initial Team
Getting It Right
Dealing with User Issues
Epilogue
Obstacles
Chapter 24 Bad Boss
Chapter 25 Welcome to the Process: Step Inside, Step Inside, and See the Show
Chapter 26 Getting Past Obstacles
Chapter 27 Speed Versus Quality: Why Do We Need to Choose?
How Did We Get Here?
About the Team
Becoming Part of the Team
Starting Off Right
Solving Problems As a Team
What Code Review Looked Like
Unit Tests
Check-ins
Builds
Schedules
Status Reports
Go Faster Now!
Looking for More Speed
Losing a Week at a Time
What to Do Next
Retaining Integrity
The Rubber Meets the Road
Success at Last
Epilogue
References
Chapter 28 Tight, Isn't It?
Only Pawn…in Game of Life, or "What's a Dazzling Urbanite Like You Doing in a Rustic Setting Like This?"
CMM Level Subzero, or "Processes, We Don't Need No Stinking Processes!"
The Brown Hole, or "I'd Say You've Had Enough"
Some of These Envelopes Contain Stock Options, or "I'm Through Being Mr. Goodbar, the Time Has Come to Act and Act Quickly"
The Blitz, or "Break's Over, Boys, Don't Just Lie There Gettin' a Suntan…"
Our Invite to the Number Six Dance, or "What Is It That's Not Exactly Water and It Ain't Exactly Earth?"
Epilogue, or "Nowhere Special…I Always Wanted to Go There"
Beautiful Security
Leading Security Experts Explain How They Think
By Andy Oram, John Viega
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Final Release Date: April 2009
Pages: 302
Beautiful Data
The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions
By Toby Segaran, Jeff Hammerbacher
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Final Release Date: July 2009
Pages: 386
Beautiful Visualization
Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts
By Julie Steele, Noah Iliinsky
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Final Release Date: April 2010
Pages: 418