BetterSoftwareFaster Andy Carmichael & Dan Haywood

General

www.togethersoft.com
the guys who gave us Together

www.togethercommunity.com
lots of useful tips, tools and discussions from the Together user community.

Prentice Hall: The Coad Series
Prentice Hall publishes a number of best-selling series for computer, engineering, and business professionals. If you weren't aware, Better Software Faster is part of the Coad Series of books relating to the use of Together.  The other books in the series are also being published by Prentice Hall.

Better Software Faster is ISBN: 0-13-008752-1.

Prentice Hall: online store
amazon.com
amazon.co.uk
amazon.co.jp
barnes&noble
the obligatory links so that you can buy our book.


Unit Testing

JUnit
the reference for JUnit, the influential unit testing framework originally developed by Beck and Gamma. Comprehensive support Together v6.0.

www.extreme-java.de
for JUnit/X, an extension to JUnit developed by Andreas Heilwagen. Discussed and used in the book (though to some extent replaced by Together 6.0's Testing Framework).

Cactus
is a simple test framework for unit testing server-side Java code. Supported within Together v6.0's Testing Framework.

JUnitEE
another JUnit extension, this one to allow tests to be run from within a J2EE application server.

MockObjects
provides an inside-out approach to unit testing.

HttpUnit
a JUnit extension to test web sites from a web browser's perspective.


Patterns & OO

Catalysis
D'Souza & Will's method for "the systematic business-driven development of component-based systems". In the book we provide a customisation in Together for one of its modelling techniques.

Hillside Patterns Pages
information about all aspects of software patterns and pattern languages.

Antipatterns
what not to do.


Java & Technology

Javaworld
brings you IT news and Java resources.

Cloudscape
is the online resource for the RDBMS bundled with the J2EE RI and used in the book's case study.


Discussion

Alistair Cockburn's home page
articles and insights on use case modeling and other software engineering topics.

Cunningham and Cunningham
discussions on many software topics, including XP.

ObjectMentor
includes a number of useful articles from Robert Martin.

Software Technology Review
reviews of many aspects of software engineering, including software metrics.

Standish Group
has project management surveys and services.