Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

Acknowledgments

To Paul Becker,now of Addison-Wesley, who has been the editor for nearly all of my non-self-published books, for his belief in me over the years.

To Karl Wiegers,for his contributions of frequently forgotten fundamental facts and for the massive job of reviewing and massaging what I wrote.

To James Bach, Vic Basili, Dave Card, Al Davis, Tom DeMarco, Yaacov Fenster, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Dennis Taylor, and Scott Woodfield, for the hugely important task of helping me identify appropriate citations for the sources of these facts.