Sumber info waterfall software engineering adalah karya Edward Yourdon sebagai mana tertera di judul, diterbitkan oleh Prentice-Hall International Editions. Pemula perlu mempelajari: 1) The nature of systems; 2) Players in the systems game; 3) Tools of structured analysis; 4) The project life cycle; 5) Major issues in systems analysis development; 6) Changes in systems analysis.
Classic material on structured analysis that was first published in the late 1970s. When Tom De Marco wrote Structured Analysis and System Specification, and Chris Gane and Trish Sarson wrote Structured System Analysis: Tools and Techniques,
there were no fourth generation programming languages, and there were no prototyping tools available for systems developers. Personal computers did not exist in those days, not with standing some of the early, primitive machines from Apple and Radio Shack.
There were no workstation-based software products that would help the system analyst create data-flow diagrams.
