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- Subject: Comp.software-eng periodic postings and archives
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.answers,news.answers
- From: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb)
- Date: 1 Nov 1994 15:37:57 GMT
-
- Last-Modified: 1 Nov 1994
- 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.
-
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- Subject: World-Wide Web archives
- Date: 28 Oct 1994
-
- The information in the FAQs and the comp.software-eng archives is available
- through the World-Wide Web (via browsers such as Mosaic and Lynx) at URL
- http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/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
- ftp://ftp.qucis.queensu.ca/pub/software-eng/www
-
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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.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.testing Software testing
- comp.software.config-mgmt Configuration management and problem tracking
- comp.specification Formal specification methods
- 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
- 11 Oct 1991 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
- 31 Oct 1994 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"
- 31 Jul 1993 jaloteSEtext: P.Jalote's "An Integrated Approach to Software
- Engineering"
- 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
- 28 Oct 1994 ccover.html: Bullseye Software's C-Cover test coverage
- analyser
- 27 Oct 1994 cadre.html: Cadre Technologies Inc.
- 31 Jul 1993 caseware: CASEWARE configuration management and problem
- tracking
- 27 Oct 1994 cmvc: IBM Configuration Management Version Control (CMVC)
- 27 Oct 1994 CMZ: CMZ source code management system
- 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
- 1 Nov 1994 OOD.html: Prof. Taegyun Kim's Object Oriented Designer
- 31 Jul 1993 objectime: ObjecTime real-time object-oriented methodology
- tool
- 31 Jul 1993 ParaSET: ParaSET parametric software development
- 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 RAZOR: RAZOR issue tracking, configuration management
- 29 Oct 1994 robochart.html: Robochart diagram editor
- 31 Jul 1993 sextant: SEXTANT UNIX/C environment
- 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
- 27 Oct 1994 TomSawyer: Graph Layout Toolkit from Tom Sawyer Software
- 31 Jul 1993 vista: Vista Technologies
- 31 Oct 1994 Westmount.html: Westmount Technology BV I-CASE tools
- 28 Oct 1994 VSF.html: Virtual Software Factory products
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- Computing and Information Science phone: (613) 545-6067
- Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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