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Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.answers,news.answers
Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!hookup!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!dalamb
From: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb)
Subject: Comp.software-eng periodic postings and archives
Message-ID: <faqmsg_766497906@qucis.QueensU.CA>
Followup-To: comp.software-eng
Keywords: FAQ
Sender: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Lamb)
Supersedes: <faqmsg_763477506@qucis.QueensU.CA>
Reply-To: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb)
Organization: Computing and Information Science, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 1994 12:05:11 GMT
Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu
Expires: Sat, 4 Jun 1994 12:05:06 GMT
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Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu comp.software-eng:11152 comp.answers:4926 news.answers:18126
Last-Modified: 4 Aug 1993
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 three others,
each summarizing a set of "frequently asked questions" (FAQs):
FAQ 1: comp.software-eng questions and answers
FAQ 2: CASE tools summary
FAQ 3: Software engineering readings
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/part3.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: other newsgroups
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.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.specification Formal specification methods
comp.specification.z The Z formal specification notation
comp.sw.components Reusable software components
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: comp.software-eng archives
The following files are available via anonymous FTP from directory
pub/software-eng on host ftp.qucis.queensu.ca (130.15.1.93). 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 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.
Name Changed Description
faqmsg 31 Jul 1993 comp.software-eng periodic postings and archives
questmsg 31 Jul 1993 FAQ 1: comp.software-eng questions and answers
casemsg 31 Jul 1993 FAQ 2: CASE tools summary
readmsg 31 Jul 1993 FAQ 3: Software engineering readings
README 31 Jul 1993 This list of files
2167a 31 Jul 1993 DoD-Std-2167a and life cycle models
ada 26 Jan 1993 bibliography on Ada and software engineering
aiswe 13 May 1992 readings: artificial intelligence and soft.eng.
anecdote 31 Jul 1993 Anecdotes/stories about software engineering
bachman 10 Sep 1991 Bachman information modeling
bookTOC 9 Jul 1993 Tables of contents of books
bookreview 10 Apr 1992 Book reviews
CASEexp 2 Oct 1991 experience with CASE tools
cdif 31 Jul 1993 CASE Data Interchange Format
cleanroom 30 Jul 1993 Cleanroom software development
cmtools 31 Jul 1993 Configuration management tools
color 4 Jun 1992 Ergonomics of color displays
concur 31 Jul 1993 Concurrent Engineering
cubicle 28 Feb 1992 Productivity effect of offices vs. cubicles
defect 26 Mar 1993 Defect tracking
designchange 7 Jul 1992 Effect of design changes
diagramedit 31 Jul 1993 Diagram editors and tools for building them
education 30 Jul 1993 Software Engineering education and degree programs
environment 15 May 1992 Software Engineering environments
ethics 11 Dec 1992 ACM code of ethics
facet 18 Sep 1991 Faceted classification and multiple inheritance
fault 7 Jul 1992 Fault Tolerance references
formal 31 Jul 1993 formal methods in the USA
funcpoints 10 Apr 1992 function/feature points
hood 2 Oct 1991 Hierachical Object-Oriented Design
horror 31 Jul 1993 Computer horror stories
hungarian 11 Oct 1991 papers on Hungarian notation
ieee 2 Oct 1991 IEEE software engineering standards
inspect 30 Jul 1993 Code inspection techniques
knowuser 31 Jul 1993 Discussion on whether to ``know the user''
lotos 31 Jul 1993 Language of Temporal Ordering of Specifications
maint 9 Apr 1992 Software maintenance laws
manuals 6 Mar 1992 Guidelines for software manuals
maturity 31 Jul 1993 SEI Capability Maturity Model
oodb 30 Jul 1993 Object-oriented databases
ooformat 10 Jan 1992 Format for object-oriented design documents
oomaint 10 Apr 1992 maintenance and complexity in o-o systems
oomethod 31 Jul 1993 Object-oriented methodologies
pdcase 7 Jul 1992 Public-domain CASE tools
performance 26 Mar 1993 performance analysis tools
petri 7 Jul 1992 Petri net tools
pmtools 30 Jul 1993 Project management and design tools
portableC 30 Jul 1993 writing portable C code
probtrack 13 Apr 1992 Problem tracking tools
productivity 18 Sep 1991 Feature point productivity for several countries
proto 7 Jul 1992 Prototyping
readcase 13 Feb 1992 Bibliography on CASE
readintro 15 Feb 1992 Introducing your manager/customer to SE ideas
realtime 15 Feb 1992 Information on realtime software development
reflist 22 May 1992 Tero Ahtee's software engineering reference list
reqelicit 31 Jul 1993 Requirement Elicitation
restruct 7 Jul 1992 Tools for restructuring and reverse engineering
reuse 31 Jul 1993 Discussion of software re-use.
safety 31 Jul 1993 Formal methods and software safety
SEorigin 31 Jul 1993 Origin of term ``software engineering''
specmark 15 Feb 1992 SPEC modern architecture benchmarks
spiral 10 Jan 1992 References on Spiral life-cycle model
standards 31 Jul 1993 standards relevant to software engineering
statecharts 15 Feb 1992 Reference list on Harel's statecharts
static 31 Jul 1993 Software metrics and static analysis
statsTool 21 Oct 1991 X-based statistics and graphing packages
strucAD 31 Jul 1993 Stuctured analysis and design and SADT
syslevel 30 Jul 1993 Realtime/hardware system-level CASE tools
techTransfer 10 Apr 1992 Technology transfer
testing 31 Jul 1993 Discussion of testing (and inspection)
testTools 31 Jul 1993 Tools for testing
transynth 15 Feb 1992 Transformation/synthesis systems
uims 3 Aug 1993 User Interface Management Systems
vdm-z 31 Jul 1993 formal methods Z and VDM
verification 10 Apr 1992 References on program verifier design
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
Name Changed Description
FIELD 9 Jul 1993 Brown University FIELD environment
IFAD 9 Jul 1993 VDM-SL toolbox
PCTE-ATIS-CAIS 31 Jul 1993 Discussion of PCTE vs ATIS vs CAIS
ParaSET 9 Jul 1993 parametric software development
PurePulse 9 Jul 1993 Pure software newsletter
aegis 29 Mar 1993 project change supervisor
autoplan 26 Jan 1993 project scheduling tool
cadreTeam 31 Jul 1993 Cadre TEAMWORK
caseware 26 Jan 1993 configuration management and problem tracking
cvs 30 Jul 1993 CVS version management tool
ief 31 Jul 1993 TI Information Engineering Facility
jaloteSEtext 31 Jul 1993 P.Jalote's "An Integrated Approach to Software Engi
objectime 26 Mar 1993 real-time object-oriented methodology
parcplace 22 Mar 1993 Smalltalk and C++ tools
rational 26 Jan 1993 Rational Inc. Ada environment, Rose OOD tool
razor 26 Jan 1993 issue tracking, configuration management
rcs 5 Oct 1992 version control system
rdd-100 31 Jul 1993 Requirements Driven Developer
robochart 26 Jan 1993 diagram editor
schach2e 28 Apr 1993 Schach's "Basic Software Engineering" text
sextant 9 Jul 1993 UNIX/C environment
shapetools 26 Jan 1993 shapetools version management/make-like tool
specbox 31 Jul 1993 VDM support tool
stp-teamwork 31 Jul 1993 Comparison of Software Thru Pictures and Cadre Team
telelogic 26 Jan 1993 Environment for CCITT SDL
vista 26 Mar 1993 Vista Technologies
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Subject: WAIS server
I have created a WAIS database that indexes the comp.software-eng archives.
It's still experimental; I'm still playing with appropriate "file types" for
the various files, so you get a subsection of a file in response to a query,
instead of the whole giant file (at the moment only a few of the files are
subdivided, and not always in a useful way). The .src file follows at the end
of this message.
The following is taken from the WAIS FAQ.txt file: WAIS is available via
anonymous FTP from a variety of sources. The main distributor is think.com,
in the wais subdirectory.
a. a mac client?
think.com:/wais/WAIStation0.62.hqx
b. a unix client?
a few UNIX based clients are available in the core distribution, which
can be found on think.com:
think.com:/wais/wais-8-b#.tar.Z, where # is the most recent version (4 at
this time). This includes the server, and clients for X Windows, GNU
Emacs and a couple of simple shell-based clients.
c. a dos client?
The University of North Carolina has been a main developement site for
WAIS software. Several DOS clients can be found in the FTP archives on
wais.oit.unc.edu.
d. a NeXT client?
A client for NeXT can be found in think.com:/wais/XXX
e. a VMS client?
WAIS has been ported to VMS by the folks at the University of North
Carolina.
f. the server?
An example WAIS server is part of the core distribution.
(:source
:version 3
:ip-address "130.15.1.93"
:ip-name "ftp.qucis.queensu.ca"
:tcp-port 210
:database-name "software-eng"
:cost 0.00
:cost-unit :free
:maintainer "dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca"
:description "Server created with WAIS release 8 b5.1 on Jun 17 16:10:48 1993 by dalamb@quilt
The files of type mail_digest used in the index were:
/usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/casemsg
/usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/questmsg
/usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/readmsg
/usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/color
/usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/testTools
/usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/pmtools
/usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/static
/usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/petri
/usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/inspect
/usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/proto
/usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/fault
/usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/performance
"
)
--
Software Technology Laboratory dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb)
Computing and Information Science phone: (613) 545-6067
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6