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In the Desert Island Column, authors, marooned on a desert island, write about books and/or papers, relevant to software engineering, that they would value having with them above all others. They may be seminal, thought-provoking or simply a pleasure to read. In a slight change to the usual format of the column, Professor Wladyslaw Turski has chosen to write about a book he would write on a desert island. Ed.

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Turski, W.M. (1997). Desert Island Column. In: Setliff, D., Reubenstein, H. (eds) Knowledge-Based Software Engineering. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-34714-1_6

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