Part I. Personal software engineering. Chapter 1. Software development metaphors -- Chapter 2. Productivity -- Chapter 3. Software development models -- Part II. UML. Chapter 4. An introduction to UML and use cases -- Chapter 5. UML activity diagrams -- Chapter 6. UML class diagrams -- Chapter 7. UML interaction diagrams -- Chapter 8. Miscellaneous UML diagrams -- Part III. Documentation. Chapter 9. System documentation -- Chapter 10. Requirements documentation -- Chapter 11. Software design description documentation -- Chapter 12. Software test documentation -- Afterword: Designing great code

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