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Archive-name: software-eng/part0
URL: http://www.cs.queensu.ca/FAQs/SE/

Welcome to comp.software-eng, a newsgroup for discussion of software
engineering and related topics.  This message is followed by four others, each
summarizing a set of "frequently asked questions" (FAQs):
    Comp.software-eng FAQ (Part 1): questions and answers
    Comp.software-eng FAQ (Part 2): CASE tools summary
    Comp.software-eng FAQ (Part 3): readings
    Comp.software-eng FAQ (Part 4): CASE tool vendors
Be warned: the only mechanism we use to compose these lists is to gather
information submitted by people around the net, post it regularly, and
incorporate feedback.  All evaluations are the opinions of those who submitted
them; your mileage may vary.  Send comments to [e-mail] (David Alex
Lamb).

Many FAQs, including this one, are available on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu
in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers.  The name under which a FAQ is
archived appears in the Archive-name line at the top of the article.  This
FAQ, and the parts that follow, are archived as software-eng/part0 through
software-eng/part4.

You can search through past comp.software-eng articles, and those of other
newsgroups, via DejaNews at http://www.dejanews.com/.

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Subject: World-Wide Web archives
Date: Wed May 24 08:22:43 1995

The information in the FAQs and the comp.software-eng archives is available
through the World-Wide Web at
    <URL:http://www.cs.queensu.ca/FAQs/SE/>
and also
    <URL:http://www.cs.queensu.ca/Software-Engineering/>
Everything visible through the Web is also available via FTP;  the above URL
leads to the same directory as you get via anonymous FTP to
    <URL:ftp://ftp.cs.queensu.ca/pub/software-eng/www/>

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Subject: Other Web sites
Date: 10 Nov 2002

The following are other Web sites related to software engineering:

A. Tools
   1.  Brad Myers ([e-mail]) maintains a list of user interface
       software tools at
       http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/bam/www/toolnames.html.
   2.  CERA Research's EE Toolbox for embedded systems at
       http://www.cera2.com/ebox.htm.
   3.  Simon Stobart's list of freeware and shareware CASE tools for IBM PCs
       running MS Windows at http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/sst/casehome.html.
   4.  Applied Information Science International runs a forum on data modeling
       and other forms of abstract data representation.  It includes
       discussions of methodologies, reviews of CASE products, users' reports
       of their experiences in actual design projects, and references to other
       sources via WWW links and a bibliography of printed material.
   5.  info-partners international, inc. maintains a Software Information
       Center, at http://www.info-partners.com/softinfo/ with (as of June 1997)
       information on over 15,000 software products and their vendors.
   6.  Brian Marick ([e-mail]) maintains a list of testing tools
       suppliers.
   7.  The page describing the Lucent Software Toolchest CD-ROM (including
       CSCOPE).
   8.  The University of Sunderland's page on Meta-CASE systems at
       http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/rif/metacase/metacase.home.html.
   9.  The Software Deployment Information Clearinghouse at
       http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~rickhall/deployment/ describes tools for
       packaging, releasing, installing, configuring, updating, and
       uninstalling a software system.
B. Standards
   1.  The IEEE has an online catalog of its hardcopy standards for software
       engineering at http://stdsbbs.ieee.org/products/catalog/it.html#gen23.
   2.  Software development and documentation standards are available, for a
       fee, from IEEE.  These supersede earlier standars such as MIL-STD-498
       and DOD Standard 2167A.
   3.  Praxion provides some ISO 9000-3 Guidelines in Plain English.
C. FAQs
   1.  Pete Phillips' project management FAQ at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/proj-
       plan-faq/.
   2.  David W. Eaton's configuration management and problem tracking FAQs at
       http://www.iac.honeywell.com/Pub/Tech/CM/.
   3.  The comp.object (Object Orientation) FAQ at http://www.cyberdyne-object-
       sys.com/oofaq2/.
   4.  Software Testing Laboratories, Inc. maintains a web page on creating
       high quality software products for the commercial marketplace at
       http://www.stlabs.com/default.htm.
   5.  The Configuration Management Yellow Pages contains many links to online
       CM resources.
   6.  Rick Hower's Software QA and Testing Resource Center.
D. Newsletters and E-Mail
   1.  Bill Frakes edits the Software Reuse and Re-engineering newsletter at
       http://frakes.cs.vt.edu/renews.html.
   2.  Software Research, Inc. archives its monthly Testing Techniques
       Newsletter (TTN) at http://www.soft.com/News/TTN-Online/.
   3.  The SEWORLD mailing list ([e-mail]).
E. Education
   1.  David Eichmann's list of educational programs has vanished.
   2.  The Canadian Information Processing Society's draft software engineering
       curriculum.
F. Other
   1.  ACM SIGSOFT's list of Software Engineering conferences, most of them
       sponsored by or in cooperation with SIGSOFT.
   2.  The software engineering entry of the WWW Virtual Library, at
       http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html.
   3.  The ASSET public software reuse library at http://source.asset.com/;
       start by reading their FAQ at http://source.asset.com/WSRD/faq.html,
       then their Worldwide Software Resources Discovery (WSRD) catalog at
       http://source.asset.com/WSRD/catalog.html.
   4.  Philip Johnson's archive on formal technical review at
       http://www.ics.hawaii.edu/~johnson/FTR/.
   5.  Charles McCann's ([e-mail]) Capability Maturity Model
       Level 2 Focus Group at http://www.okstate.edu/~cmccann/.
   6.  Marko Krajnc's page on component technology at
       http://www.odateam.com/cop/.
   7.  Manfred Schneider's "Cetus Links" on object orientation at
       http://www.rhein-neckar.de/~cetus/software.html.
   8.  Robin Whitty's bibliography on object-oriented metrics at
       http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~csse/publications/OOMetrics.html.
   9.  The Personal Software Process (PSP) resources page at
       http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/PSP/ at theUniversity of Karlsruhe.
   10. The Process Patterns Resource Page at
       http://www.ambysoft.com/processPatternsPage.html.

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Subject: other newsgroups
Date: 28 Oct 1994

The following other newsgroups discuss topics related to software engineering;
consequently, coverage of these topics in this newsgroup (and thus the
comp.software-eng archives) tends to be sparse.  Many of these groups have
their own FAQ's, which you can find in the appropriate *.answers group (e.g.
comp.answers for any group whose name starts with "comp.").

comp.groupware              Software/hardware for shared interactive environments
comp.human-factors      Human factors, including user interfaces
comp.lang.*              Discussion of specific programming languages.
comp.newprod              Announcements of new products
comp.object              Object-oriented analysis/design/programming/systems
comp.programming          Programming, especially algorithms and data structures
comp.realtime              Computer-based realtime systems
comp.software.measurement Software metrics
comp.software.testing     Software testing
comp.software.config-mgmt Configuration management and problem tracking
comp.specification.misc   Formal specification methods
comp.specification.larch  The Larch family of specification notations
comp.specification.z      The Z formal specification notation
comp.sw.components        Reusable software components
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Subject: comp.software-eng archives
Date: 29 Oct 1994

The following files are available via anonymous FTP from
    ftp://ftp.cs.queensu.ca/pub/software-eng/archive
Log in with user ID 'anonymous' and use your mailing address as the
password. Each file has a header (in e-mail or news format) that credits the
original collector.

Readings
  26 Jan 1993 ada: bibliography on Ada and software engineering
  13 May 1992 aiswe: readings: artificial intelligence and soft.eng.
   7 Jul 1992 fault: Fault Tolerance references
  13 Feb 1992 readcase: Bibliography on CASE
  22 May 1992 reflist: Tero Ahtee's software engineering reference list
  15 Feb 1992 statecharts: Reference list on Harel's statecharts
  10 Apr 1992 verification: References on program verifier design
Book reviews
  27 Mar 1992 reviewJapanSoftFactory.html: Michael A. Cusumano: "Japanese
              Software Factories"
  31 Mar 1992 reviewFowlerRifkin.html: Priscilla Fowler and Stan Rifkin:
              "Software Engineering Process Group Guide"
  31 Mar 1992 reviewMarksTesting.html: David M. Marks "Testing Very Big
              Systems"
  29 Oct 1994 reviewNeumannRisks.html: Peter G. Neumann's "Computer-Related
              Risks"
  31 Mar 1992 reviewOuldTesting.html: Ould and Unwin's "Testing in Software
              Development"
  31 Mar 1992 reviewWeinbergQuality.html: Gerald M. Weinberg's "Quality
              Software Management - Volume 1: Systems Thinking"
Tools
   2 Oct 1991 CASEexp: experience with CASE tools
  31 Jul 1993 cmtools: Configuration management tools
  31 Jul 1993 diagramedit: Diagram editors and tools for building them
   7 Jul 1992 pdcase: Public-domain CASE tools
  26 Mar 1993 performance: performance analysis tools
   7 Jul 1992 petri: Petri net tools
  30 Jul 1993 pmtools: Project management and design tools
  13 Apr 1992 probtrack: Problem tracking tools
   7 Jul 1992 restruct: Tools for restructuring and reverse engineering
  21 Oct 1991 statsTool: X-based statistics and graphing packages
  30 Jul 1993 syslevel: Realtime/hardware system-level CASE tools
  31 Jul 1993 testTools: Tools for testing
  15 Feb 1992 transynth: Transformation/synthesis systems
   3 Aug 1993 uims: User Interface Management Systems
Uncatalogued topics
  31 Jul 1993 2167a: DoD-Std-2167a and life cycle models
  31 Jul 1993 anecdote: Anecdotes/stories about software engineering
  10 Sep 1991 bachman: Bachman information modeling
   9 Jul 1993 bookTOC: Tables of contents of books
  31 Jul 1993 cdif: CASE Data Interchange Format
  30 Jul 1993 cleanroom: Cleanroom software development
   4 Jun 1992 color: Ergonomics of color displays
  31 Jul 1993 concur: Concurrent Engineering
  28 Feb 1992 cubicle: Productivity effect of offices vs. cubicles
  26 Mar 1993 defect: Defect tracking
   7 Jul 1992 designchange: Effect of design changes
  30 Jul 1993 education: Software Engineering education and degree programs
  15 May 1992 environment: Software Engineering environments
  11 Dec 1992 ethics: ACM code of ethics
  18 Sep 1991 facet: Faceted classification and multiple inheritance
  29 Oct 1994 FDA.html: Food and Drug Administration and Software
  31 Jul 1993 formal: formal methods in the USA
  10 Apr 1992 funcpoints: function/feature points
   2 Oct 1991 hood: Hierachical Object-Oriented Design
  31 Jul 1993 horror: Computer horror stories
   7 Apr 1995 hungarian: papers on Hungarian notation
   2 Oct 1991 ieee: IEEE software engineering standards
  30 Jul 1993 inspect: Code inspection techniques
  31 Jul 1993 knowuser: Discussion on whether to ``know the user''
  31 Jul 1993 lotos: Language of Temporal Ordering of Specifications
   9 Apr 1992 maint: Software maintenance laws
   6 Mar 1992 manuals: Guidelines for software manuals
  31 Jul 1993 maturity: SEI Capability Maturity Model
  30 Jul 1993 oodb: Object-oriented databases
  10 Jan 1992 ooformat: Format for object-oriented design documents
  10 Apr 1992 oomaint: maintenance and complexity in o-o systems
  31 Jul 1993 oomethod: Object-oriented methodologies
  30 Jul 1993 portableC: writing portable C code
  18 Sep 1991 productivity: Feature point productivity for several countries
   7 Jul 1992 proto: Prototyping
  15 Feb 1992 readintro: Introducing your manager/customer to SE ideas
  15 Feb 1992 realtime: Information on realtime software development
  31 Jul 1993 reqelicit: Requirement Elicitation
  31 Jul 1993 reuse: Discussion of software re-use.
  31 Jul 1993 safety: Formal methods and software safety
  31 Jul 1993 SEorigin: Origin of term ``software engineering''
  15 Feb 1992 specmark: SPEC modern architecture benchmarks
  10 Jan 1992 spiral: References on Spiral life-cycle model
  31 Jul 1993 standards: standards relevant to software engineering
  23 Jun 1997 static.html: Software metrics and static analysis
  31 Jul 1993 strucAD: Stuctured analysis and design and SADT
  10 Apr 1992 techTransfer: Technology transfer
  31 Jul 1993 testing: Discussion of testing (and inspection)
  31 Jul 1993 vdm-z: formal methods Z and VDM

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Subject: more detailed information on specific products

The following files are in the "blurb" subdirectory of the software
engineering archives at cs.queensu.ca;  retrieve them as described for the
main archives, except that for the mail archive server you say
     send software-eng/blurb f1 f2 ....
The files consist of comments on individual products or companies.  When a
vendor sends me detailed information on a product that won't fit into the FAQ,
I put it here - along with other comments from the net.

Books
  22 Oct 1994 ooexample: Berard Software Engineering's "A Complete Object-
              Oriented Design Example"
  22 Oct 1994 ooproj: Berard Software Engineering's "A Project Management
              Handbook for Object-Oriented Software Development"
   4 Nov 1994 FKNprocess.html: Finkelstein et al.'s Software Process
              Modelling and Technology
  31 Jul 1993 jaloteSEtext: P.Jalote's "An Integrated Approach to Software
              Engineering"
   7 Apr 1995 safeware.html: Nancy Leveson's "Safeware: System Safety and
              Computers"
  31 Jul 1993 schach2e: Schach's "Basic Software Engineering" text
Discussion of tools
  31 Jul 1993 cvs: CVS version management tool
  31 Jul 1993 ief: TI Information Engineering Facility (IEF)
  31 Jul 1993 PCTE-ATIS-CAIS: Discussion of PCTE vs ATIS vs CAIS
  29 Oct 1994 ooadTools.html: Evaluation of OO Analysis and Design Tools
  31 Jul 1993 rcs: RCS version control system
  31 Jul 1993 rdd-100: RDD-100 Requirements Driven Developer
  31 Jul 1993 stp-teamwork: Comparison of Software Thru Pictures and Cadre
              Teamwork
Submissions from vendors
  31 Jul 1993 aegis: AEGIS project change supervisor
  31 Jul 1993 autoplan: AUTOPLAN project scheduling tool
  27 Oct 1994 cmvc: IBM Configuration Management Version Control (CMVC)
  27 Oct 1994 CMZ: CMZ source code management system
   5 May 1995 continuus.html: Continuus configuration management and problem
              tracking
  27 Oct 1994 DDTS: Distributed Defect Tracking System (QualTrak)
  31 Jul 1993 FIELD: Brown University FIELD environment
  31 Jul 1993 IFAD: IFAD VDM-SL toolbox
  27 Oct 1994 LDRA: LDRA testbed
   8 Dec 1994 MacAnalyst.html: Excel Software's MacAnalyst and MacDesigner
              tools
  31 Jul 1993 parcplace: ParcPlace Smalltalk and C++ tools
  31 Jul 1993 PurePulse: Pure Pulse software newsletter
  31 Jul 1993 rational: Rational Inc. Ada environment, Rose OOD tool
  31 Jul 1993 shapetools: shapetools version management/make-like tool
  31 Jul 1993 specbox: SpecBox VDM support tool
  31 Jul 1993 telelogic: Telelogic Environment for CCITT SDL
   4 Nov 1994 Vantive.html: Vantive Qualtity problem tracking system
  13 Jul 1995 verilog.html: Verilog home page
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http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~dalamb/   qucis->cs to reply (it's a long story...)