Software Engineering Archives

This directory contains discussions of software engineering topics gathered from discussions in newsgroup comp.software-eng. Please read the following disclaimer. Topics within this collection include:

Readings
Book reviews
Tools
Uncatalogued topics

Readings

These are surveys or reading lists by people other than the authors or publishers.

bibliography on Ada and software engineering (last changed: 26 Jan 1993)
readings: artificial intelligence and soft.eng. (last changed: 13 May 1992)
Fault Tolerance references (last changed: 7 Jul 1992)
Bibliography on CASE (last changed: 13 Feb 1992)
Tero Ahtee's software engineering reference list (last changed: 22 May 1992)
Reference list on Harel's statecharts (last changed: 15 Feb 1992)
References on program verifier design (last changed: 10 Apr 1992)

Book reviews

Michael A. Cusumano: "Japanese Software Factories" (last changed: 27 Mar 1992)
Priscilla Fowler and Stan Rifkin: "Software Engineering Process Group Guide" (last changed: 31 Mar 1992)
David M. Marks "Testing Very Big Systems" (last changed: 31 Mar 1992)
Peter G. Neumann's "Computer-Related Risks" (last changed: 29 Oct 1994)
Ould and Unwin's "Testing in Software Development" (last changed: 31 Mar 1992)
Gerald M. Weinberg's "Quality Software Management - Volume 1: Systems Thinking" (last changed: 31 Mar 1992)

Tools

Discussion of particular tools or classes of tools.

experience with CASE tools (last changed: 2 Oct 1991)
Configuration management tools (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
Diagram editors and tools for building them (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
Public-domain CASE tools (last changed: 7 Jul 1992)
performance analysis tools (last changed: 26 Mar 1993)
Petri net tools (last changed: 7 Jul 1992)
Project management and design tools (last changed: 30 Jul 1993)
Problem tracking tools (last changed: 13 Apr 1992)
Tools for restructuring and reverse engineering (last changed: 7 Jul 1992)
X-based statistics and graphing packages (last changed: 21 Oct 1991)
Realtime/hardware system-level CASE tools (last changed: 30 Jul 1993)
Tools for testing (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
Transformation/synthesis systems (last changed: 15 Feb 1992)
User Interface Management Systems (last changed: 3 Aug 1993)

Uncatalogued topics

These are items not yet sorted into any of the previous categories.

DoD-Std-2167a and life cycle models (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
Anecdotes/stories about software engineering (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
Bachman information modeling (last changed: 10 Sep 1991)
Tables of contents of books (last changed: 9 Jul 1993)
Book reviews (last changed: )
CASE Data Interchange Format (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
Cleanroom software development (last changed: 30 Jul 1993)
Ergonomics of color displays (last changed: 4 Jun 1992)
Concurrent Engineering (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
Productivity effect of offices vs. cubicles (last changed: 28 Feb 1992)
Defect tracking (last changed: 26 Mar 1993)
Effect of design changes (last changed: 7 Jul 1992)
Software Engineering education and degree programs (last changed: 30 Jul 1993)
Software Engineering environments (last changed: 15 May 1992)
ACM code of ethics (last changed: 11 Dec 1992)
Faceted classification and multiple inheritance (last changed: 18 Sep 1991)
Food and Drug Administration and Software (last changed: 29 Oct 1994)
formal methods in the USA (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
function/feature points (last changed: 10 Apr 1992)
Hierachical Object-Oriented Design (last changed: 2 Oct 1991)
Computer horror stories (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
papers on Hungarian notation (last changed: 7 Apr 1995)
IEEE software engineering standards (last changed: 2 Oct 1991)
Code inspection techniques (last changed: 30 Jul 1993)
Discussion on whether to ``know the user'' (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
Language of Temporal Ordering of Specifications (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
Software maintenance laws (last changed: 9 Apr 1992)
Guidelines for software manuals (last changed: 6 Mar 1992)
SEI Capability Maturity Model (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
Object-oriented databases (last changed: 30 Jul 1993)
Format for object-oriented design documents (last changed: 10 Jan 1992)
maintenance and complexity in o-o systems (last changed: 10 Apr 1992)
Object-oriented methodologies (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
writing portable C code (last changed: 30 Jul 1993)
Feature point productivity for several countries (last changed: 18 Sep 1991)
Prototyping (last changed: 7 Jul 1992)
Introducing your manager/customer to SE ideas (last changed: 15 Feb 1992)
Information on realtime software development (last changed: 15 Feb 1992)
Requirement Elicitation (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
Discussion of software re-use. (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
Formal methods and software safety (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
Origin of term ``software engineering'' (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
SPEC modern architecture benchmarks (last changed: 15 Feb 1992)
References on Spiral life-cycle model (last changed: 10 Jan 1992)
standards relevant to software engineering (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
Software metrics and static analysis (last changed: 23 Jun 1997)
Stuctured analysis and design and SADT (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
Technology transfer (last changed: 10 Apr 1992)
Discussion of testing (and inspection) (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)
formal methods Z and VDM (last changed: 31 Jul 1993)