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- From: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.answers,news.answers
- Subject: Comp.software-eng FAQ (Part 0): periodic postings and archives
- Supersedes: <faqmsg_873623712@qucis.QueensU.CA>
- Followup-To: comp.software-eng
- Date: 5 Oct 1997 09:18:49 GMT
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- Last-Modified: 27 Sep 1997
- Archive-name: software-eng/part0
-
- 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 dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (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 (via browsers such as Netscape, Mosaic and Lynx) at
- <URL:http://www.qucis.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.qucis.queensu.ca/pub/software-eng/www/>
-
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- Subject: Other Web sites
- Date: 28 Jul 1997
-
- The following are other Web sites related to software engineering:
-
- A. Tools
- 1. Brad Myers (Brad.Myers@cs.cmu.edu) 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 (marick@testing.com) maintains a list of testing tools
- suppliers.
- 7. Trident Systems Inc.maintains a list of Unix/X tools.
- 8. The University of Sunderland's page on Meta-CASE systems at
- http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/rif/metacase/metacase.home.html.
- 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. Information about MIL-STD-498 on Software Development and Documentation
- at http://diamond.spawar.navy.mil/498/mil-498.html; this is the
- successor to several standards, including 2167A at
- http://www.cybercom.net/~mark/dod-std-2167a/. The standards are also
- available at the Defence Information Systems Agency at
- http://www.itsi.disa.mil/cfs/std498.html.
- C. FAQs
- 1. Pete Phillips' project management FAQ at
- http://www.wst.com/projplan/proj-plan.FAQ.html.
- 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://iamwww.unibe.ch/~scg/OOinfo/FAQ/.
- 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.
- D. Newsletters
- 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/.
- E. Other
- 1. David Eichmann's list of educational programs in Software Engineering at
- http://ricis.cl.uh.edu/virt-lib/se_programs.html.
- 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 (cmccann@okway.okstate.edu) 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.
-
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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.qucis.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. If you cannot use FTP, send mail to
- archive-server@qucis.queensu.ca containing a line of the form
- send software-eng/archive f1 f2 ...
- where f1, f2, and so on are the names of the files from this list; the mail
- server should respond within an hour or so plus mailing delays (which can
- themselves be substantial if you're not directly on the internet). If you
- want to find out more about the archive server, send mail to the same address
- with a line containing the word 'help'; if you do this you can't also request
- files in the same message. If your mailer has trouble with large files, use
- the 'size <bytes>' command to set a threshold, above which the server will
- split files into several messages.
-
- 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 qucis.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
- 2 May 1995 bridgepoint.html: Objective Spectrum's Bridgepoint tools for
- Shlaer-Mellor OOAD
- 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
- 3 Mar 1997 OOD.html: Prof. Taegyun Kim's Object Oriented Designer
- 31 Jul 1993 objectime: ObjecTime real-time object-oriented methodology
- tool
- 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
- 31 Oct 1994 Westmount.html: Westmount Technology BV I-CASE tools
- 4 Nov 1994 Vantive.html: Vantive Qualtity problem tracking system
- 13 Jul 1995 verilog.html: Verilog home page
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