📚 Computer Software

Books with computer software on their catalogue record, first published between 1982 and 2023, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject computer software in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 19,070 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Software engineering	Ian Sommerville	1982	16
	Show-Stopper!	G. Pascal Zachary	1994	13
	Clean Code	Robert C. Martin	2008	13
	Design Patterns	Erich Gamma	1995	12
	Autodesk Revit 2024	ASCENT - Center for Technical Knowledge	2023	12
	Presentation Zen	Garr Reynolds	2007	11
	Code Complete	Steve McConnell	1993	10
	Head First design patterns	Eric Freeman	2004	10
	Software Requirements	Karl Eugene Wiegers	1999	7
	Extreme programming explained	Kent Beck	1999	7
	Producing Open Source Software	Karl Fogel	2005	7
	Clean Architecture	Robert C. Martin	2017	7
	Testing computer software	Cem Kaner	1988	6
	Lessons learned in software testing	Cem Kaner	2001	6
	Test-driven development	Kent Beck	2002	6
	Software testing techniques	Boris Beizer	1983	5
	Software testing	Paul Jorgensen	1995	5
	Computing fundamentals	Peter Norton	1996	5
	Peter Norton's Introducation to Computers	Peter Norton	1999	5
	Implementing lean software development	Mary Poppendieck	2006	5
	Project to Product	Mik Kersten	2018	5
	Working in Public	Nadia Asparouhova	2020	5
	Crafting Interpreters	Robert Nystrom	2021	5
	Rapid development	Steve McConnell	1996	4
	Software Testing	Ron Patton	2000	4
	The Dream Machine	M. Mitchell Waldrop	2001	4
	xUnit Test Patterns	Gerard Meszaros	2007	4
	Agile testing	Lisa Crispin	2009	4
	Specification by example	Gojko Adzic	2011	4
	Threat modeling	Adam Shostack	2014	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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