From portal.gmu.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!concert!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!dalamb Sun Mar 12 16:25:27 1995 Path: portal.gmu.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!concert!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!dalamb 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: Followup-To: comp.software-eng Date: 12 Mar 1995 10:16:28 GMT Organization: Computing and Information Science, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada Lines: 232 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Distribution: world Expires: 23 Apr 1995 10:15:37 GMT Message-ID: Reply-To: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb) NNTP-Posting-Host: quilt.qucis.queensu.ca Keywords: FAQ Originator: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca Xref: portal.gmu.edu comp.software-eng:12710 comp.answers:7500 news.answers:23636 Last-Modified: 12 Mar 1995 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ' 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 2 Nov 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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" 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 12 Dec 1994 Hindsight.html: Advanced Software Automation's Hindsight toolset 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 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 23 Jan 1995 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 4 Nov 1994 Vantive.html: Vantive Qualtity problem tracking system 28 Oct 1994 VSF.html: Virtual Software Factory products -- 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 From portal.gmu.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!concert!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!dalamb Sun Mar 12 16:25:27 1995 Path: portal.gmu.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!concert!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!dalamb From: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.answers,news.answers Subject: Comp.software-eng FAQ (Part 1): questions and answers Supersedes: Followup-To: comp.software-eng Date: 12 Mar 1995 10:16:32 GMT Organization: Computing and Information Science, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada Lines: 312 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Distribution: world Expires: 23 Apr 1995 10:15:37 GMT Message-ID: References: Reply-To: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb) NNTP-Posting-Host: quilt.qucis.queensu.ca Keywords: FAQ Originator: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca Xref: portal.gmu.edu comp.software-eng:12711 comp.answers:7501 news.answers:23637 Last-Modified: 5 Dec 1994 Archive-name: software-eng/part1 This message gives brief answers to questions that have occurred in comp.software-eng; in many cases they are also topics many readers would like NOT to see discussed again soon. Questions are: What's a CASE Tool? What's a 'function point'? What's the 'spiral model'? What is a 'specmark'? Where can I find a public-domain tool to compute metrics? How do I write good C style? What is 'Hungarian Notation'? Are lines-of-code (LOC) a useful productivity measure? Should software professionals be licenced/certified? How do I get in touch with the SEI? What is the SEI maturity model? Where can I get information on API? What's a 'bug'? Where can I get copies of standards?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: What's a CASE Tool? Date: 27 Oct 1994 Archive file: casemsg (thanks to Scott McGregor for inspiring this question) CASE stands for Computer Aided Software Engineering; it can be used to mean any computer-based tool for software planning, development, and evolution. Various people regularly call the following 'CASE': Structured Analysis (SA), Structured Design (SD), Editors, Compilers, Debuggers, Edit-Compile-Debug environments, Code Generators, Documentation Generators, Configuration Management, Release Management, Project Management, Scheduling, Tracking, Requirements Tracing, Change Management (CM), Defect Tracking, Structured Discourse, Documentation editing, Collaboration tools, Access Control, Integrated Project Support Environments (IPSEs), Intertool message systems, Reverse Engineering, Metric Analyzers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: What's a 'function point'? Date: 31 Jul 1993 Archive file: funcpoints Function points and feature points are methods of estimating the "amount of functionality" required for a program, and are thus used to estimate project completion time. The basic idea involves counting inputs, outputs, and other features of a description of functionality. If interested, for a fee you can join: International Function Point Users Group 5008-28 Pine Creek Drive Blendonview Office Park Westerville, Ohio 43081-4899 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: What's the 'spiral model'? Date: 27 Oct 1994 Archive file: spiral (1) Barry Boehm, "A Spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement", ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, August 1986. (2) Barry Boehm "A Spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement" IEEE Computer, vol.21, #5, May 1988, pp 61-72. Basically, the idea is incremental development, using the waterfall model for each step; it's intended to help manage risks. Don't define in detail the entire system at first. The developers should only define the highest priority features. Define and implement those. With this knowledge, they should then go back to define and implement more features in smaller chunks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: What is a 'specmark'? Date: 27 Oct 1994 Archive file: specmark The SPECmark is the geometric mean of a series of benchmarks done by the SPEC group. There are a couple of suites, but in general SPECmark refers to the results of the first suite. The suite includes FORTRAN and C codes, mostly well known codes but slightly hacked versions. SPEC c/o NCGA 2722 Merrilee Drive, Suite 200 Fairfax, VA 22031 Phone: (703) 698-9600 FAX: (703) 560-2752 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Where can I find a public-domain tool to compute metrics? Date: 27 Oct 1994 Archive file: static.html Volume 20 of newsgroup comp.sources.unix contained a public-domain package called "metrics", which computes McCabe and Halstead metrics. There are many comp.sources.unix archives around the net. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: How do I write good C style? Date: 27 Oct 1994 This is answered regularly in the comp.lang.c FAQ. Try "Recommended C style and Coding Standards", via anonymous FTP to site archive.cis.ohio-state.edu in directory pub/style-guide ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: What is 'Hungarian Notation'? Date: 27 Oct 1994 Archive file: hungarian A naming convention for C code. See Charles Simonyi and Martin Heller, "The Hungarian Revolution", BYTE, Aug. 1991 (vol. 16, no. 8). There are other naming conventions; see, e.g. "A Guide to Natural Naming", Daniel Keller, ETH, Projekt-Zentrum IDA, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland. Published in SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 25, No. 5, pages 95-102. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Are lines-of-code (LOC) a useful productivity measure? Date: 27 Oct 1994 Archive file: static.html Not unless you are very careful. Capers Jones' book has a detailed and insightful discussion of Lines of Code, including anomalies, and shows how to use it sensibly (eg in a single job shop, with a single language, and a standard company coding style). It is easy to cook up anomalies where LOC gives different numbers for code written in different styles, but pathological cases should get caught in code inspections. References: - T. Capers Jones, Programming Productivity, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1986 - Capers Jones, Applied Software Measurement: Assuring Productivity and Quality, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1991, 494 pages ISBN 0-07-032813-7 The appendices of the latter give rules for counting procedural source code, as well as rules for counting function points and feature points. The following study, cited in Boehm's Software Engineering Economics, claims that anomalies that seriously "fool" the LOC metric show up rarely in real code. - R. Nelson Software Date Collection and Analysis at RADC, Rome Air Development Center, Rome, NY. 1978. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Should software professionals be licenced/certified? Date: 27 Oct 1994 This is a very controversial and political question. Generally, certification is something voluntary, while licencing is regulated by governments. Certification generally means some agency warrants you meet its standards; licencing generally means that to claim to practice a certain profession requires a government licence, often administered through a professional organization. In theory both are supposed to help judge if someone is capable of doing certain jobs. Licencing isn't currently required for computing professionals; some people would like to see some jobs require it, as with established branches of engineering. Others don't like government intervention, and/or believe many people who wouldn't get licenced are perfectly competent. Computing professionals in the USA have had a certification program for years, administered by the Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals (708-299-4227), a meta-organization with representatives from ACM, IEEE-CS, ADAPSO, ICCA, IACE, AIM, DPMA, AISP, COMMON, ASM, CIPS, and AWC. There are three certificates aimed at different broad types of practitioner, and many areas of specialization. To keep a certificate requires at least 40 hours of continuing education each year; credit can also be obtained for self-study, teaching, publication, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: How do I get in touch with the SEI? Date: 27 Oct 1994 Try using the World-Wide Web via URL http://www.sei.cmu.edu/. For general information about the SEI, contact the customer relations department of the Software Engineering Institute at: internet: customer-relations@sei.cmu.edu Phone: (412) 268-5800 A subscriber service is available to U.S. mailing addresses. Subscribers receive the SEI quarterly newsletter, Bridge; invitations to SEI public events; and first notification of course offerings and new publications. To become a subscriber, contact Customer Relations. To order an SEI publication, contact NTIS, DTIC, or RAI directly: National Technical Information Service (NTIS) U.S. Department of Commerce Springfield, VA 22161-2103 Telephone: (703) 487-4600 Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) ATTN: FDRA Cameron Station Alexandria, VA 22304-6145 Telephone: (703) 274-7633 Research Access Inc. (RAI) 3400 Forbes Avenue Suite 302 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Telephone: (412) 682-6530 FAX: (412) 682-6530 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: What is the SEI maturity model? Date: 31 Jan 1992 Originally-From: mcp@sei.cmu.edu (Mark Paulk) Archive file: maturity Maturity is not an easy concept to get down to a single paragraph, but consider this. Premise: The quality of a software system is largely governed by the quality of the process used to develop and maintain the software. Basics: The first step in improving the existing situation is to get management buy-in and management action to clean up the software management processes (walk the talk, as TQMers frequently say). Integration: The second step is to get everyone working together as a team. Measurement: The third step is to establish objective ways of understanding status and predict where things are going in your process. Continuous improvement: Understand that this is building a foundation for continually getting better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Where can I get information on API? Date: 31 Oct 1994 API stands for Application Programming Interface. For a useful subset of standard APIs that NIST considers relevant to US Federal government needs, you can look at NIST SP 500-187 "Application Portability Profile," using the World-Wide Web via URL http://nemo.ncsl.nist.gov/app-ose/, or send mail to mail-server@nemo.ncsl.nist.gov with send app-ose/app2.txt in the body, or contact Barbara Blickenstaff, 301-975-2816. Many of the open systems APIs are being developed in the IEEE POSIX groups. An article in the Dec. 1991 IEEE Spectrum describes these and related API standards. IEEE standards aren't distributed electronically, but both of the documents above tell how to obtain copies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: What's a 'bug'? Date: 12 May 1992 You can take your pick: (1) Don't use "bug", use "fault" (an incorrect instruction or definition), "failure" (an incorrect result), or "mistake" (a human action leading to a failure). Paraphrased from IEEE Standard Computer Dictionary Standard 610, ISBN 1-55937-079-3 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. 345 East 47th Street New York, NY 10017-2394 USA $49.50 (US$) for IEEE members (2) Beizer, in a footnote on page 33 of the second edition of Software Testing Techniques says (paraphrased): I'm sticking with "bug" because everyone knows what it means, there are several "standards" for other terms that are incon- sistent with each other, the OED says that the conventional computer meaning of "bug" is ancient, and short Anglo-Saxon words are preferable to long Norman ones. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Where can I get copies of standards?? Date: 28 Oct 1994 ISO, ANSI, and IEEE standards are usually sold to raise some of the funds that the various national and international standards bodies (who usually own the copyright) need to keep afloat; thus they are not normally avail- able electronically. Also, the organizations are concerned that electron- ic copies would make it too easy for people to disseminate doctored ver- sions of the standards. ISO standards may be purchased from: In Canada: Standards Council of Canada / Conseil canadien des normes 1200-45 O'Connor, Ottawa K1P 6N7 Phone: (613) 238-3222 Fax: (613) 995-4564 On CD-ROM: Omnicom, Inc. 115 Park St. SE Vienna, VA 22180-4607 1-800-OMNICOM Also available through the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), 5284 Port Royal Rd., Springfield, VA 22161, (703) 487-4650. ANSI and ANSI equivalent ISO standards are available from ASQC Quality Press Customer Service Department P.O. Box 3066 Milwaukee, WI 53201-3066 Voice: (800) 248-1946 FAX: (414) 272-1734 For ITU (formerly CCITT) standards, see the ITU using the World-Wide Web via URL gopher://info.itu.chor use their mail server: mail to itudoc@itu.ch with no subject and the following body: START HELP END There were once some CCITT standards on-line at the University of Colorado, but the arrangement to make them available via the Internet was terminated at the end of 1991. -- 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 From portal.gmu.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!concert!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!dalamb Sun Mar 12 16:25:27 1995 Path: portal.gmu.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!concert!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!dalamb From: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.answers,news.answers Subject: Comp.software-eng FAQ (Part 2): CASE tools summary Supersedes: Followup-To: comp.software-eng Date: 12 Mar 1995 10:16:34 GMT Organization: Computing and Information Science, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada Lines: 276 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Distribution: world Expires: 23 Apr 1995 10:15:37 GMT Message-ID: References: Reply-To: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb) NNTP-Posting-Host: quilt.qucis.queensu.ca Keywords: FAQ Originator: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca Xref: portal.gmu.edu comp.software-eng:12712 comp.answers:7502 news.answers:23638 Last-Modified: 4 Mar 1995 Archive-name: software-eng/part2 This is the monthly "frequently asked questions" (FAQ) posting on Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools: ECMA Reference Model Other sources of information Configuration management and problem tracking tools CASE tools for object-oriented design and analysis CASE tools for educational use Look for lines starting with "Subject:" (control-G command in rn). Most products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their vendors. Send comments to dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ECMA Reference Model Date: 12 May 1992 Originally collected by: ant@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Anthony Earl) The European Computer Manufacturer's Association (ECMA) adopted TR/55, "Reference Model for Frameworks of Software Engineering Environments", 2nd edition, in December of 1991. In Europe, it's available for free from The European Computer Manufacturers Association 114 Rue du Rhone CH-1204 Geneva Switzerland Tel: +41 22 735 36 34 Fax: +41 22 786 52 31 In the United States, it is for sale by the National Institute of Standards and Technology as NIST Special Publication 500-201. Contact: the Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC 20402. There is a PostScript version of the document in the PSESWG archives. You may be able to retrieve it using their mail-server by sending email to psesarch@nadc.navy.mil with the subject: get nist-sp500-201.ps It is long (about half a Meg) so it may not make it through some mailers/nets. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Other sources of information Date: 26 Mar 1993 There is a Hypercard stack that you can get by anonymous FTP from the info- mac/card directory at sumex-aim.stanford.edu. The version 1.1 runs under various Hypercard versions including 2.0v2 on newer Macs: -rw-r--r-- 1 macmod 286168 Jan 29 12:13 case-products-11.hqx A short companion report (about 60 pp. including tool signal info and my view of why and where this market is going) can be obtained from GMD; Western US office is: GMD, 1942 University Ave. #207, Berkeley CA 94704.) Heinz W. Schmidt hws@icsi.berkeley.edu [edsr!bigdaddy!cdm@uunet.UU.NET (Clifford D. Morrison) did a search with Archie and points out that this file isn't available at sumex anymore; possible locations follow. A file with a .Z ending usually means you need to retrieve it in binary/image mode and run it through UNIX 'uncompress': Host wuarhive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) Location: /mirrors2/info-mac/Old/card FILE rw-r--r-- 248003 Jun 30 1991 case-products-11.hqx.Z Host utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (133.11.11.11) Location: /Mac/info-mac/card FILE rw-rw-r-- 286168 Feb 12 10:39 case-products-11.hqx See also the Mar. 1, 1992 issue of Datamation. There are over 400 products listed for different purposes and platforms. Entries in the listing describe Company, Product, Product Type, and Operating System. Some of the product types are: Structured Analysis, Planning and Design, Strategic Planning, Analysis and Design, User Interface Konstruction, DBMS Design, Design, Prototyping, Project Management, Verification, Validation, (Data) Modeling, Simulation , Diagramming, Methodology, Software Metrics and Static Analysis, Configuration and Release Management, Project Management, Maintenance, Code Generation, Restructuring and Reverse Engineering, Performance, Testing. (sprinzl@edvz.tuwien.ac.at) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Configuration management and problem tracking tools Date: 28 Oct 1994 This FAQ used to contain information on configuration management and problem tracking tools. With the advent of newsgroup comp.software.config-mgmt, it's more appropriate to go looking in its FAQs, available using the World-Wide Web via URL http://www.iac.honeywell.com/Pub/Tech/CM/. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: CASE tools for object-oriented design and analysis Date: 4 Mar 1995 Originally collected by: calvo@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Sherri Calvo) Berard Object & Class Specifier (BOCS) by Berard Software Engineering (see vendor list). BOCS is an object-oriented analysis and design CASE tool for developing models of software & business systems and their underlying objects (classes, parameterized classes, and instances of classes). BOCS is used to create programming language independant specifications, then automatically generate formatted documentation combining text and graphics into popular publishing packages. BOCS also provides code generation for C++ and Smalltalk. The traceability tool allows users to trace requirements to design and code. BOCS runs on Microsoft Windows 3.1 (TM). $595 per copy. - [russ@bse.com (Russell Hopler)] Cadre Teamwork (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software- Engineering/blurb/cadre.html) by Cadre Technologies, Inc (see vendor list). Associated with Project Technology. ObjecTeam for Shlaer/Mellor, Rumbaugh. Ada structure graphs (Booch/Buhr). CASET . 714-496-8670 IPSYS ToolBuilder HOOD (Hierarchical Object Oriented Design) by HOOD User's Group:. HUG Administration Logica Space and Communications Ltd Business Park No 4 Randalls Way Leatherhead Surrey, KT22 7TW U.K. Attn: Jardine Barrington-Cook email: barrington@logica.com Now mandatory for several European Space Agency projects. by Interactive Development Environments (see vendor list). Extension of Ada design tools to handle OOPLs, primarily C++. IDE also has a product called StP/OMT (Software through Pictures/Object Modeling Technique) which is solded both through IDE and through the Advanced Concepts Center (ACC) of Martin Marietta (MMC). Both companies also provide training on the tool. The tool supports the Rumbaugh OMT methodology. ObjecTime (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software- Engineering/blurb/objectime) by ObjecTime Ltd. (see vendor list). ObjecTime is an Object-Oriented CASE tool for real-time systems. It supports the Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling (ROOM) methodology, including a highly iterative development process enabled by the creation of executable models (not just diagrams). Object-oriented paradigms are integral to the tool and support reusable design components. ObjectMaker (a/k/a Adagen) by Mark V Systems, Ltd. (see vendor list). Runs under Windows, X11, VMS (Mac under development). Support for OMT (Rumbaugh et al), Booch, Coad-Yourdon, and other object-oriented and structured methods. Tailorable for new (and combinations of existing) methods. Code generation and reverse engineering for Ada, C/C++ (others planned). Generation of diagrams from the repository. Support for process modeling notations. Interoperation with other tools via DDE, OLE, TCP/IP, etc. - [dwig@markv.com (Don Dwiggins)] OOAtool by Object International, Inc. (see vendor list). Runs under Windows, Mac, and X11. Supports methodology in Peter Coad's books "Object-Oriented Analysis" and "Object-Oriented Design". OOTher . (OO Documentation Tool); once called OoaToolFree Rel 1.06a (for win 3.1). Supports Coad's OOA/OOD, Jacobson OOSE (parts) and Finite State Machine notation (a subset of SDL) and C++ header file generaetion. Available on SIMTEL20 and CICA. Free for Students, $70 home users, $170 site licese for 5 users for others. e-mail: conrozi@KK.ericsson.se. To fetch from simtel-20 (via mail in uuencoded format): Send e-mail to listserv@vm1.nodak.edu, set the subject string to SIMTEL20-request. The message body should be: /PDGET MAIL PD1:OOT-106d.ZIP UUENCODE Paradigm Plus / EVB Edition by EVB Software Engineering, Inc. (see vendor list). Supports the EVB Ada Object Oriented Development (AOOD) methodology. Can be configured to support other methods. Has Ada code generation. Rational Rose by Rational (see vendor list). Supports Booch methodology. Available for SunOS, AIX, MS Windows, OS/2. Robochart (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software- Engineering/blurb/robochart.html) by Digital Insight (see vendor list). Interactive diagram editor for OPEN LOOK & Motif ($495); Does hierarchical ERDs, dataflows, etc. Educational discounts. Free evaluation copy via anonymous FTP to site ftp.csn.org in directory digins. System Architect by Popkin Software & Systems (see vendor list). Supports ER diagrams, Booch methodology for Ada and C++, Coad/Yourdon. Diagram editor checks for consistency and rule violations. Runs under MS-Windows. VSF (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-Engineering/blurb/VSF.html) by Virtual Software Factory Ltd. (see vendor list). (formerly Systematica) Tool of same name as company is a meta-CASE configurable tool incorporating a KBS. Unirel Openlook Toolkit by Unirel (see vendor list). An Eiffel wrapper for Xlib. US $2000 Objectory by Objective Systems (see vendor list). An object-oriented Analysis and Design method with supporting CASE-tool. The tool is a multi-user tool with a central repository and includes multiple diagram and documentation techniques, consistency checks, traceability, etc. It covers several models including Requirements, Analysis and Design models and also C++ code generation. The tool runs on multiple platforms. An overview of Objectory can be found in "Object-Oriented Software Engineering - A use case driven approach", by Jacobson et al, published by Addison-Wesley 1992. MetaEdit by MetaCase Consulting OY (see vendor list). An upper-CASE tool that supports most available structured and OO analysis and design methods, and can be customized to support user-defined methods. As of September 1993 it supports Booch, Coad/Yourdon, Demeter, Express-G, Rumbaugh, Gane-Sarson, ER, JSP, and many more. MetaEdit is available for MS-Windows 3.1. Its as metaed10.zip. A method definition workbench for users who want to define their own methods themselves is available. Academic and educational licenses can also be obtained. Graphical Designer by Advanced Software Technologies, Inc. (see vendor list). A Unix based software development tool supporting Rumbaugh, Shlaer-Mellor, Booch, Data Flow, Entity-Relationships and others A custom methodology can be created as needed to express high and low level designs in a graphical format. Generates detailed C++, C and Ada code. Also provides extensive diagram layout features and user extensible symbol sets. It is available on HP9000/7-800 (HP- UX), SPARC (SunOS, Solaris), and SGI (IRIX). - [riedesel@advancedsw.com (Joel Riedesel)] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: CASE tools for educational use Date: 7 Nov 1994 Originally collected by: render@zeppo.colorado.edu (Hal Render) Teamwork by Cadre Technologies, Inc (see vendor list). It runs on SUN, ULTRIX, VMS, HP, APOLLO, OS2, etc, with X window support on most of the platforms with more to come soon (including some low-cost PC X emulators. [from cadreri!sat@Sun.COM (Scott A. Trachtenberg)] We have been using for the past few years the following two tools: (Schemacode International Inc (see vendor list)) SCHEMACODE: automatically translates schematic pseudocode design into source code. Works for most programming language except ADA. Available on PC, soon on UNIX. Educational licence 250$ + 50$ per PC. IEEE Computer had a good report on this tool. Sometime last fall. DATRIX: a tool for software quality assessment on PC and UNIX machines. Works for C, FORTRAN and PASCAL. Measures up to 40 metrics and provides a unique representation of the control flow, which is useful for testing, program understanding, and program evaluation. Expensive; educational licence for 500$, including up to 10 workstations. We have been using these tools for the past three years in 4th year undergrad and grad soft.eng. courses Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. [from robillar@rgl.polymtl.ca (P. N. Robillard)] ToolBuilder (formerly TBK) by IPSYS Software Plc (see vendor list). It provides meta-tools (design editors, structure editors) a single underlying ERA database (supporting fine structure) and a uniform UI based on Motif. Tools exist for HOOD (design for Ada). Might have educational discounts. STONE by FZI (see vendor list). (see also archives file "environments") - An SEE for research and education. An OODBS called OBST is used as the core of the environment. OBST is available via anonymous ftp from gate.fzi.de [141.21.4.3]. OBST provides currently an interface to C++. A call interfaces to C is also available, as well as an embedding of OBST into the interactive tool command language TCL. [from Bernhard Schiefer ] Rational Environment by Rational (see vendor list). A tightly integrated, interactive software engineering environment for total lifecycle control of Ada projects. Supports design, development, unit test, maintenance, verification, document generation, configuration management, subsystem tools, incremental compilation. Can also integrate with external front-end CASE tools and external target compilers. [from: Bob Geiger ] Objectory by Objective Systems (see vendor list). An object-oriented Analysis and Design method with supporting CASE-tool. The tool is a multi-user tool with a central repository and includes multiple diagram and documentation techniques, consistency checks, traceability, etc. It covers several models including Requirements, Analysis and Design models and also C++ code generation. The tool runs on multiple platforms. An overview of Objectory can be found in "Object-Oriented Software Engineering - A use case driven approach", by Jacobson et al, published by Addison-Wesley 1992. OOD (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-Engineering/blurb/OOD.html) by Prof. Taegyun Kim of Pusan University in South Korea. A free tool for educational use, based on Rumbaugh's Object Modeling Technique. Prof. Kim has built it on a SPARC, but it should build on most UNIX systems with X11-R5, Motif-1.2 and a "reasonable" C++ compiler. -- 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 From portal.gmu.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!concert!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!dalamb Sun Mar 12 16:25:28 1995 Path: portal.gmu.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!concert!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!dalamb From: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.answers,news.answers Subject: Comp.software-eng FAQ (Part 3): readings Supersedes: Followup-To: comp.software-eng Date: 12 Mar 1995 10:16:36 GMT Organization: Computing and Information Science, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada Lines: 761 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Distribution: world Expires: 23 Apr 1995 10:15:37 GMT Message-ID: References: Reply-To: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb) NNTP-Posting-Host: quilt.qucis.queensu.ca Keywords: FAQ Originator: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca Xref: portal.gmu.edu comp.software-eng:12713 comp.answers:7503 news.answers:23639 Last-Modified: 5 Dec 1994 Archive-name: software-eng/part3 This is the monthly "frequently asked questions" (FAQ) posting on reading materials for software engineers. Topics include: Textbooks Periodicals on Software Engineering Professional Journals Mixed Research and Practice Research Journals Other magazines Other sources of information General reading for software engineers General Programming in the large Programming in the small Mathematical Approaches Other Formal Specification Metrics Metrics - General Metrics for object-oriented systems Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Programming Style Real-Time Systems Requirements Analysis Requirements Analysis - General Collaborative Requirements Analysis Software Process Software Testing User Interfaces Human-Computer Interaction -- General User Interface Development -- General User Interface Design -- Principles and Guidelines User Interface Development - Software User Interface Evaluation Styleguides for Specific Platforms Human Factors and Ergonomics Look for lines starting with "Subject:" (control-G command in rn). Be warned: the only mechanism we use to compose this list 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). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Textbooks Date: 22 Oct 1994 Originally collected by: hsrender@happy.colorado.edu (Hal Render) The first 8 items are Hal Render's original list in his rough order of prefer- ence. 1. Software Engineering: The Production of Quality Software by Shari Pfleeger, 2nd Edition, Macmillan, 1991, ISBN 0-02-395115-X. hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #2, had the best explanations of what I want to cover (different engineering lifecycles, methods, and tools). 2. Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach by Roger Pressman, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1987, ISBN 0-07-050783-X (3rd edition available fall 1991). hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #1, had the best explanations of what I want to cover (different engineering lifecycles, methods, and tools). robb@iotek.uucp (Robb Swanson): The definitive book on the subject as far as I'm concerned. johnson@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Michelle Johnson): A good text book as well as reference. 3. Software Systems Engineering by Andrew Sage and James D. Palmer. hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #1, had the best explanations of what I want to cover (different engineering lifecycles, methods, and tools). 4. Fundamentals of Software Engineering by Ghezzi, Jayazeri and Mandrioli, Prentice-Hall, 1991 hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #5, good, and covered the issue of specifications and verification better, but at the expense of other aspects of the development process. I may use one of them for a graduate course in software engineering. nancy@murphy.ICS.UCI.EDU (Nancy Leveson): Better than Sommerville, although I like much of Sommerville. 5. Software Engineering with Abstractions by Valdis Berzins and Luqi, Addison Wesley, 1991, 624 pages. hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #4, good, and covered the issue of specifications and verification better, but at the expense of other aspects of the development process. I may use one of them for a graduate course in software engineering. straub@cs.UMD.EDU (Pablo A. Straub): Both this and #9 have a good emphasis on using formal techniques (i.e., doing engineering properly), but they do not disregard informal methods; chapters are roughly organized around the traditional lifecycle. #5 is longer and can be used in a two-term sequence or for graduate students (it's possible to use it in a one- term undergrad course by covering only part of the material). One thing I like is that management and validation is given in all chapters, so that these activities are integrated into the development process. Emphasizes the use of formally specified abstractions. Uses the authors' specification language (Spec) to develop a project in Ada. 6. Software Engineering by Ian Sommerville, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-17568-1 hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Our current text, and my basic problem with it is the vague way it covers many of the topics. 7. Software Engineering with Student Project Guidance by Barbara Mynatt hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #8, not bad, but fairly low-level and doesn't cover many tools and techniques I consider valuable. 8. Software Engineering by Roger Jones hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #7, not bad, but fairly low-level and doesn't cover many tools and techniques I consider valuable. 9. Software Engineering: Planning for Change by David Alex Lamb, Prentice- Hall, 1988, 298 pages. straub@cs.UMD.EDU (Pablo A. Straub): Both this and #5 have a good emphasis on using formal techniques (i.e., doing engineering properly), but they do not disregard informal methods; chapters are roughly organized around the traditional lifecycle. #9 has the advantage of being shorter, yet covering most relevant topics (lifecycle phases, formal specs, v&v, configurations, management, etc.). It is very appropriate for an undergrad course. It emphasizes that maintenance is a given and should be taken into account (hence the title). Several specification techniques are covered and used to develop a project in Pascal. 10. A Practical Handbook for Software Development by N.D. Birrell and M.A. Ould, Cambridge University Press, 1985/88. ISBN 0-521-34792-0 (Paper cover); ISBN 0-521-25462-0 (Hard cover). ewoods@hemel.bull.co.uk (Eoin Woods): 11. Fundamentals of Computing for Software Engineers by Eric S. Chan & Murat M. Tanik, Van Nostrand Reinhold. kayaalp@csvax.seas.smu.edu (Mehmet M. Kayaalp MD): 12. Software Engineering, 2nd Edition, by Stephen R. Schach, Aksen Associates (ISBN 0-256-12998-3); also Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1993. 13. Practical Software Engineering by Stephen R. Schach, Aksen Associates and Richard D. Irwin Inc. (ISBN 0-256-11455-2), 1992. Advertised as sophomore through senior level, emphasizing teams, maintenance, reuse, CASE tools. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Periodicals on Software Engineering Date: 27 Oct 1994 A. Professional Journals Meant for working professionals with technical backgrounds. 1. IEEE Software summary: often presents recent research work, but much more readably than typical research journals. publisher: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) subscriptions: IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, USA 2. Software Engineering Notes summary: unrefereed newsletter; includes digest of comp.risks publisher: ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) SIGSOFT (Special Interest Group on Software engineering) subscriptions: ACM, 11 West 42d St, New York, NY 10036, USA 3. Software Maintenance News summary: monthly report on people and technology in maintenance; aimed at practitioners publisher: Software Maintenance News Inc, B10 Suite 237, 4546 El Camino Real, Los Altos, CA 94022, USA subscriptions: as above 4. Software Testing, Verification and Reliability summary: aimed at practitioners; dissemination of new techniques, methodologies and standards publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Baffins Lane, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1UD, UK 5. The Software Practitioner (TSP) summary: started late 1990; meant for real practitioners; still finding its place publisher: Computing Trends, P.O. Box 213, State College, PA 16804, USA B. Mixed Research and Practice 1. Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice summary: refereed; intended for both researchers and practitioners; joint US/UK editorial board publisher: Wiley (see above) subscriptions: Journals Subscription Department, at above address 2. Software Engineering Journal (SEJ) summary: full spectrum of articles from practical experience to long- term research publisher: IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers) and BCS (British Computer Society); write to IEE Publication Sales, PO Box 96, Stevenage, Herts, SG1 2SD, United Kingdom. 3. Software: Practice and Experience summary: not always software engineering; good reputation for practice publisher: Wiley (see above) 4. The Software Quality Journal summary: academic research and industrial case studies and experience publisher: Chapman & Hall, Journals Promotion Department, North America:29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001-2291, USA. Europe: 2-6 Boundary Row, London SE1 8HN, UK C. Research Journals Meant for presenting recent research results. 1. Information and Software Technology (IST) summary: broad spectrum, much software engineering, software process, but also computer science topics. publisher: Butterworth-Heineman, Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford, UK 2. Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) summary: main software engineering research journal publisher: IEEE (see above) 3. Transaction on Software Engineering Methodology (TOSEM) summary: first issue dated January 1992; not enough track record for an opinon yet. publisher: Association for Computing Machinery 4. Journal of Systems and Software summary: meant to be more practitioner-oriented than other research journals publisher: Elsevier D. Other magazines 1. Software summary: "For Managers of Enterprise-Wide Software Resources" primarily aimed at Management Information Systems (MIS) world publisher: Sentry Publishing Company, Inc, 1900 West Park Drive, Westborough, MA 01581, (508) 366-2031 2. Testing Techniques Newsletter summary: E-mailed on a monthly basis to support the publisher's customers and to provide information of general use to the testing community. publisher: Software Research, Inc., 625 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94107-1997; Phone: (415) 957-1441; Toll Free: (800) 942-SOFT; FAX: (415) 957-0730; E-MAIL: ttn@soft.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Other sources of information Date: 22 Oct 1994 Software Quality Engineering has a publication division called Single Source, Publications, Books, and Information for Software Practitioners and Managers: Software Quality Engineering -- Single Source 3000-2 Hartley Road Jacksonville, FL 32257 (904) 268-8639 FAX (904) 268-0733 TOLL FREE 1-800-423-8378 They do regular reviews of most of the literature relevant to testing, s-eng, and management. The books which are deemed useful by the reviewers are purchased for reselling. Their catalog includes most of the literature that I've come across on Software Testing. One of the items in the catalog is a publication which the company puts together itself, The Testing Tools Reference Guide, a sort of catalog of tools that have passed certain criteria, (number of unit sold, at least three verifiable references, etc.) They charge $145.00 for this guide. This includes two bi-annual updates. I've found the guide very useful in tracking down vendors which specialize in CASE and testing tools, although it seems to be heavily biased towards IBM mainframe hardware and COBOL programming (shudder!). Each text is described and summarized I'm sure SQE would be happy to send catalogs free of charge and most of the prices seem reasonable. - Glenn Stowe glenn8@odie.cs.mun.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: General reading for software engineers Date: 11 Oct 1991 Originally collected by: cml@cs.UMD.EDU (Christopher Lott) Summary: responses to "what should every software engineering have read?" A. General 1. Read about 100 pages of comp.risks 2. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man-Month, Addison Wesley, 1978. ISBN 0-201-00650-2 3. The anecdotal books of Robert L. Glass, from Computing Trends, P.O.Box 213, State College, PA 16804, including: "Tales of Computing Folk: Hot Dogs and Mixed Nuts", "The Universal Elixir and other Computing Projects Which Failed", "The Second Coming: More Computing Projects Which Failed", "The Power of Peonage", "Computing Catastrophes", "Computing Shakeout", "Software Folklore" 4. Paul W. Oman & Ted G. Lewis, Milestones in Software Evolution, IEEE Computing Society, ISBN 0-8186-9033-X. 5. J.A. McDermid (editor), Software Engineer's Reference Book, Butterworth- Heinemann Ltd., 1991. ISBN No: 0 750 61040 9. Focuses on the foundations, and subject matter that is not volatile. The book is divided into three major parts: Theory and Mathematics; Methods, Techniques, and Technology; Principles of Applications. For a beginner, the first two parts are indispensible. It does not provide details of current research, but points an interested reader to the right sources. B. Programming in the large 1. Grady Booch, Software Engineering with Ada, second edition, Benjamin/Cummings, 1987 2. Bertrand Meyer, Object-Oriented Software Construction, Prentice-Hall, 1988. 3. David L. Parnas, On the Criteria to be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules, Communications of the ACM 15,2 (December 1972). C. Programming in the small 1. Jon Louis Bentley, Writing Efficient Programs, Prentice-Hall, 1982. 2. Jon Bentley, Programming Pearls, Addison-Wesley, 1986. 3. Jon Bentley, More Programming Pearls, Addison-Wesley, 1988. 4. O.-J. Dahl, E.W. Dijkstra, C.A.R. Hoare, Structured Programming, Academic Press, 1972. 5. Brian W. Kernighan, and P.J. Plauger, Software Tools, Addison-Wesley, 1976. 6. Brian W. Kernighan & P.J. Plauger, The Elements of Programming Style, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1978. ISBN 0-07-034207-5. D. Mathematical Approaches 1. Edsger W. Dijkstra, A Discipline of Programming, Prentice-Hall, 1976. 2. E.W.Dijkstra. Selected writings on computing: a personal perspective. Springer Verlag, 1982. 3. David Gries (editor), Programming methodology. A collection of articles by members of IFIP Working Group 2.3. Springer Verlag, 1978. E. Other 1. Barry W. Boehm, Software Engineering Economics, Prentice-Hall, 1981. 2. Daniel P. Freedman and Gerald M. Weinberg, Handbook of Walkthoughs, Inspections and Technical Reviews, 3rd edition Dorset House Publishing, 1990, ISBN 0-932633-19-6. Originally published by Little, Brown & Company, 1982: ISBN 0-316-292826. 3. Tom Gilb, Principles of Software Engineering Management, Addison-Wesley, 1988, ISBN 0-201-19246-2 4. Glenford J. Myers, The Art of Software Testing, Wiley, 1979. 5. Herb Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial, Second Edition, MIT Press, 1981 6. Gerald M. Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1971. ISBN 0-442-29264-3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Formal Specification Date: 29 Mar 1993 See also the comp.specification.z FAQ. 1. J.M.Spivey. "Understanding Z: a specification language and its formal semantics". Cambridge University Press, 1988. 2. David Lightfoot. "Formal Specification Using Z". MacMillan, 1991, ISBN 0-333-54408-0. A clear introduction to Z and the discrete mathematics that underlies it. 3. B.Potter, J.Sinclair & D.Till. "An introduction to formal specification and Z". Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1991. 4. D.Bjorner & C.B.Jones. "Formal Specification & Software Development", Prentice-Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1980. 5. N.Gehani & A.D.McGettrick (eds). "Software Specification Techniques", Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1986 6. I. van Horebeek & J.Lewi. "Algebraic Specifications in Software Engineering", Springer Verlag, 1989. 7. J.Bergstra, P.Klint & J.Heering. "Algebraic Specification", ACM Frontier Press Series. The ACM Press in co-operation with Addison-Wesley, 1989. 8. J.Wing. "A specifiers introduction to formal methods", IEEE Computer 23(9):8-24, 1990. 9. Prehn & Soetenel (eds). "Formal Software Development Methods, VDM'91", LNCS 551 and 552, Springer-Verlag. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Metrics Date: 22 Oct 1994 A. Metrics - General Thanks especially to Horst Zuse, who sent his extensive bibliography on metrics. He has an extensive database with over 500 entries on metrics; contact ZUSE%DB0TUI11.BITNET@vm.gmd.de. 1. David N. Card and Robert L. Glass. Measuring Software Design Quality Prentice Hall, Engewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990 2. S.D. Conte, H.E. Dunsmore, V.Y. Shen. Software Engineering Metrics and Models. Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Menlo Park, 1984 ISBN: 0-8053-2162-4 3. Tom DeMarco. Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement and Estimation. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1982 4. T.Denvir, R.Herman and R.Whitty (Eds.). Proceedings of the International BCS-FACS Workshop: Formal Aspects of Measurement, May 5, 1991, South Bank Polytechnic, London, UK, Series edited by Professor C.J. van Rijsbergen, ISBN 3-540-19788-5. Springer Publisher, 1992, 259 pages. 5. Reiner Dumke. Softwareentwicklung nach Ma`s - Sch`atzen - Messen - Bewerten, Vieweg Verlag, 1992. 6. Lem Ejiogu. Software Engineering with Formal Metrics. QED Information Sciences, 1991 7. N.E. Fenton, (Editor). Software Metrics: A Rigorous Approach, 1991 United Kingdom: Chapman & Hall, 2-6 Boundary Row, London SE1 8HN, ISBN 0-412-40440-0. United States: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 115 5th Avenue, New York NY 10003, ISBN 0-442-31355-1. 8. Robert B. Grady and Deborah L. Caswell. Software Metrics: Establishing a Company-Wide Program, Prentice-Hall, 1987, ISBN 0-13-821844-7 9. Robert B. Grady. Practical Software Metrics for Project Management and Process Improvement. Prentice Hall 1992 ISBN 0-13-720384-5 10. M.H. Halstead. Elements of Software Science. New York, Elsevier North- Holland, 1977 11. S. Henry, D. Kafura, "Software Structure Metrics Based on Information Flow", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol.SE-7, No.5, September 1981. 12. IEEE. Standard Dictionary of Measures to Produce Reliable Software. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 345 East 47th Street, New York. IEEE Standards Board, 1989 13. IEEE. Guide for the Use of Standard Dictionary of Measures to Produce Reliable Software. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc 345 East 47th Street, New York. IEEE Standard Board, Corrected Edition, October 23, 1989 14. T.J. McCabe, A Complexity Measure, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, VOL. SE-2, NO. 4, Dec. 1976. 15. Alan Perlis, Frederick Sayward, Mary Shaw. Software Metrics: An Analysis and Evaluation. The MIT Press, 1981 16. V.Y. Shen, S.D. Conte, H.E. Dunsmore, Software Science Revisited: A Critical Analysis of the Theory and Its Empirical Support, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. SE-9, No. 2, March 1983. Abstract: a critical evaluation of Halstead's software science metric. 17. Martin Sheppard, Software Engineering Metrics, McGraw-Hill Book Company (UK) Limited, Shoppenhangers Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 2QL. ISBN 0-07-707410-6 (UK). Contains 24 selected papers; 1992. Tel: +44 (0)698 23431/2 Fax: +44 (0)698 770224 18. Horst Zuse, Software Complexity: Measures and Methods, de Gruyer (200 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, NY 10532 - 914/747-0110) 1991 B. Metrics for object-oriented systems 1. Morris Kenneth L. Metrics for Object-Oriented Software Development Environments (master's thesis). 1989, MIT. 2. Rocacher, Daniel: Metrics Definitions for Smalltalk. Project ESPRIT 1257, MUSE WP9A, 1988. 3. Rocacher, Daniel: Smalltalk Measure Analysis Manual. Project ESPRIT 1257, MUSE WP9A, 1989. 4. Lake, Al: A Software Complexity Metric for C++. Annual Oregon Workshop on Software Metrics, March 22-24, 1992, Silver Falls, Oregon, USA. 5. Bieman, J.M.: Deriving Measures of Software Reuse in Object Oriented Systems. Technical Report #CS91-112, July 1991, Colorado State Universty, Fort Collins/ Colorado, USA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Date: 26 Mar 1993 Originally collected by: haim@taichi.uucp (24122-kilov) 1. Bertrand Meyer. Object-oriented software construction. Prentice-Hall, 1988 For the somewhat advanced - perhaps, with some programming maturity. 2. B. Henderson-Sellers. A book of object-oriented knowledge. Prentice-Hall, 1992. This has quite a few viewgraphs in it! 3. Grady Booch. Object-oriented design with applications. Addison-Wesley, 1991. 4. Ivar Jacobson Object-Oriented Software Engineering. Addison-Wesley, 1992. This book gives a complete look at Object-orientation from requirement- analysis to last phase in design and implementation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Programming Style Date: 19 Sep 1991 Originally collected by: oman@cs.uidaho.edu (Paul W. Oman) 1. N. Anand (1988) "Clarify Function!" ACM SigPLAN Notices, 23(6), 69-79. Advocates the use of mnemonic names for entities in a system. Rules are presented for naming procedures, variable, pointers, etc. 2. S. Henry (1988) "A Technique for Hiding Proprietary Details While Providing Sufficient Information for Researchers; or, do you Recognize this Well- known Algorithm?," Journal of Systems and Software, 8(1), 3-11. Suggests encryption of variable names as part of a technique for encoding algorithms, while still providing sufficient information to researchers. 3. R. Brooks (1980) "Studying Programmer Behavior Experimentally: The Problems of Proper Methodology," Communications of the ACM, 23(4), 207-213. Discusses issues and tradeoffs in proper control of experiments involving computer programmers. 4. E. Thomas & P. Oman "A Bibliography of Programming Style Literature," ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 25(2), Feb. 1990, pp. 7-16. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Real-Time Systems Date: 22 Oct 1994 Originally collected by: jaws@sj.ate.slb.com (John Willmore) 1. Derek J. Hatley and Imtiaz A. Pirbhai. Strategies for Real-Time System Specification Dorset House, 1987 2. Paul Ward and Stephen Mellor. Structured Development for Real-Time Systems Yourdon Press, 1985 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Requirements Analysis Date: 29 Oct 1994 A. Requirements Analysis - General 1. Al Davis, Software Requirements: Objects, Functions, & States. Prentice-Hall, 1993. A revision of #2 (below). 2. Al Davis, Software Requirements: Analysis and specification. Prentice/Hall, 1990. Has some treatment of all of the popular requirements analysis and specification methods including OOA, Structured Analysis, SREM, FSM, but not the "trendy" stuff (Information Engineering, JAD). 3. Donald C. Gause and Gerald M. Weinberg, Exploring Requirements: Quality before design. Dorset House Publishing, 353 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014 4. Richard H. Thayer and Merlin Dorfman (editors), Software Requirements Engineering, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1990. B. Collaborative Requirements Analysis (thanks to Annie I. Anton, anton@cc.gatech.edu). 1. Palmer, J.D., Aiken, P. and Fields, N.A. "A Computer Supported Cooperative Work Environment for Requirements Engineering and Analysis", Proceedings of the Requirements Engineering and Analysis Workshop, Software Engineering Institute, March 12-14, 1991. 2. Palmer, J.D. and Aiken, P.H. "Utilizing Interactive Multimedia to Support Knowledge-based Development of Software Requirements", Proceedings of the 5th Annual RADC Knowledge-Based Software Assistant Conference, Syracuse, NY, September 24-28, 1990. 3. Marca, D. "Specifying Groupware Requirements From Direct Experience", Proc 6th International Workshop On Software Specification And Design, October 1991 4. Marca, D. "Augmenting SADT To Develop Computer-Supported Cooperative Work", Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering; May 1991 5. Marca, D. "Experiences in Building Meeting Support Software", Proceedings of the 1st Groupware Technology Workshop; August 1989 6. Marca, D. "Specifying Coordinators: Guidelines for Groupware Developers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Software Specification and Design; May 1989 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Software Process Date: 25 Oct 1994 Originally collected by: cml@cs.umd.edu (Christopher Lott) 1. Watts S. Humphrey. Managing the Software Process. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Reading, Massachusetts, 1989; Chapters 13--15, 18. 2. Bill Curtis, Marc I. Kellner and Jim Over. "Process Modeling," Communications of the ACM, Sept 92, Vol 35, No 9, 75-90. 3. Victor R. Basili. "Iterative Enhancement: A Practical Technique for Software Development". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. v.~SE-1, n.~4, December 1975, pp.~390--396. 4. Victor R. Basili and H. Dieter Rombach. "The TAME Project: Towards Improvement-Oriented Software Environments", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v. SE-14, n. 6, June 1988, pp.~758--773. 5. Victor R. Basili, "Software Development: A Paradigm for the Future", Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual International Computer Science and Applications Conference, Orlando, Florida, September 1989, pp.~471--485. 6. Barry W. Boehm. "A Spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement", IEEE Computer, v.~21, n.~5, May 1988, pp.~61--72. 7. Frank DeRemer and Hans H. Kron. "Programming-in-the-Large Versus Programming-in-the-Small", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.~SE-2, n.~2, June 1976, pp.~80--86. 8. M. M. Lehman. "Process Models, Process Programs, Programming Support", Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Software Engineering, Monterey, CA, March 1987, pp.~14--16. 9. Leon Osterweil. "Software Processes are Software Too", Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Software Engineering, Monterey, CA, March 1987, pp.~2--13. 10. Winston W. Royce. "Managing the Development of Large Software Systems: Concepts and Techniques", 1970 WESCON Technical Papers, v.~14, Western Electronic Show and Convention, Los Angeles, Aug. 25-28, 1970; Los Angeles: WESCON, 1970, pp.~A/1-1 -- A/1-9; Reprinted in Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Software Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, ACM Press, 1989, pp.~328--338. 11. Peter H. Feiler and Watts S. Humphrey. "Software Process Development and Enactment: Concepts and Definitions", Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1991. 12. Watts S. Humphrey. "Session Summary: Review of the State-of-the-Art", Proceedings of the Fifth International Software Process Workshop, Kennebunkport, Maine, USA, 10-13 October 1989, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1990. 13. Gail E. Kaiser. "Rule-Based Modeling of the Software Development Process", Proceedings of the 4th International Software Process Workshop, Moretonhampstead, Devon, UK, 11-13 May 1988, ACM Press, Baltimore, MD, 1989, pp.~84--86. 14. Takuya Katayama. "A Hierarchical and Functional Software Process Description and its Enaction", Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Software Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, ACM Press, 1989, pp.~343--352. 15. Marc I. Kellner and H. Dieter Rombach. "Comparisons of Software Process Descriptions", Proceedings of the Sixth International Software Process Workshop, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, 29-31 October 1990, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1991. 16. Jayashree Ramanathan and Soumitra Sarkar. "Providing Customized Assistance for Software Lifecycle Approaches", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.~14, n.~6, June 1988, pp.~749--757. 17. H. Dieter Rombach. "An Experimental Process Modeling Language: Lessons Learned from Modeling a Maintenance Environment", Proceedings of the Conference on Software Maintenance - 1989, IEEE, October 16-19, 1989. 18. H. Dieter Rombach. "MVP--L: A Language for Process Modeling In--the--Large", University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies Technical Report UMIACS--TR--91--96, CS--TR--2709, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742. 19. Stanley M. Sutton, Jr. "APPL/A: A Prototpye Language for Software Process Programming", Department of Computer Science Report CU-CS-448-89, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1989. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Software Testing Date: 27 Oct 1994 The original request that prompted the posting of this information asked for recent work, not buried in a Software Engineering tome. 1. Boris Beizer, Software Testing Techniques, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990 (2nd edition) ISBN 0-442-20672-0. 503 pages, $43. Has 37-page annotated bibliography of references. 2. Cheatham and Mellinger, Testing Object Oriented Software Systems, Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SCS Conference 3. William C. Hetzel, The Complete Guide to Software Testing, Second edition, QED Information Services INC, 1988. ISBN 0-89435-242-3 4. Testing Techniques Newsletter (see periodicals) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: User Interfaces Date: 25 Oct 1994 Originally collected by: perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu (Gary Perlman) This collection of recommended books for user interface developers is based on searches of The HCI Bibliography, a free-access online bibliography on Human- Computer Interaction. The bibliography contains the tables of contents of almost all of the books listed. See the files abooks.bib (authored books), ebooks.bib (edited books), and reports.bib (technical reports). About 10,000 bibliographic entries on books, conference proceedings, and journal articles can be accessed via anonymous FTP to site archive.cis.ohio-state.edu in directory /pub/hcibib, or email requests can be sent to: hcibib@cis.ohio-state.edu A. Human-Computer Interaction -- General 1. Ronald M. Baecker & William A. S. Buxton (Editors). Readings in Human- Computer Interaction: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Los Altos, CA: Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, 1987. ISBN 0-934613-24-9. This and the second edition are excellent collection of readings, integrated with clear and thought-provoking prose by the editors. This excellent introduction to the field is also a great value, making it the most used university text on HCI. 2. Ronald M. Baecker, Jonathan Grudin, William A. S. Buxton & Saul Greenberg (Editors). Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000 (Second Edition). Los Altos, CA: Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, 1994. ISBN 1-55860-246-1. This new version is very different from the first and should be considered a different snapshot of the field. An excellent introduction to the field. 3. Stuart K. Card, Thomas P. Moran & Allen Newell. The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1983. This classic defines the early theoretical basis for HCI. It is primarily for researchers. 4. Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory Abowd & Russell Beale. Human-Computer Interaction. Hillsdale, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993. ISBN 0-13-458266-7 (hardback); 0-13-437211-5 (paperback) only outside USA. This is a broad introduction to HCI, including a clear statement of a user interface development process. It should be useful to researchers in training and practitioners. 5. Martin Helander (Editor). Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1988. ISBN 0-444-88673-7 (paper). This collection of survey papers contains excellent reference material for both researchers and practitioners. The softcover edition is reasonably affordable. 6. Jenny Preece, Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp, David Benyon, Simon Holland & Tom Carey. Human-Computer Interaction. Wokingham, UK: Addison Wesley, 1994. ISBN 0-201-62769-8. This is the latest general HCI textbook. It is the first one to contain all the pedagogical features (examples, exercises, etc.) to make it good for undergraduate and graduate level use. B. User Interface Development -- General 1. Deborah Hix & H. Rex Hartson. Developing User Interfaces: Ensuring Usability Through Product and Process. New York, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993. ISBN 0-471-57813-4. This book generated a lot of positive reviews when it came out. 2. Ben Shneiderman. Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (Second Edition). Reading, MA: Addison- Wesley Publishing Co., 1992. ISBN 0-201-57286-9. This is the second edition of a very popular textbook. Although it is a survey of user interface development, it can also be used as a guide for practitioners. C. User Interface Design -- Principles and Guidelines 1. C. Marlin "Lin" Brown. Human-Computer Interface Design Guidelines. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp., 1988. ISBN 0-89391-332-4. An good source of guidelines for graphical interfaces. 2. James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner & John F. Hughes. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice (2nd Edition). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1990. ISBN 0-201-12110-7. The second edition of this classic contains a few chapters on input and output devices and user interface architecture. 3. Brenda Laurel (Editor). The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1990. This is a popular collection of inspiring readings on design. 4. Clayton Lewis & John Rieman. Task-Centered User Interface Design: A Practical Introduction. Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado, Boulder, 1993. ftp ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/distribs/clewis/HCI- Design-Book This is the first shareware book on UI design. 5. Aaron Marcus. Graphic Design for Electronic Documents and User Interfaces. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. (ACM Press), 1992. ISBN 0-201-54363-9; ACM Order number 703900. This book contains many examples and includes a comparative study of graphical user interfaces on different platforms. 6. Deborah J. Mayhew. Principles and Guidelines in Software User Interface Design. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992. ISBN 0-13-721929-6. This is an excellent practical guide for effective design. 7. Donald A. Norman. The Psychology of Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books, 1988. ISBN 0-465-06709-3. Also published as The Design of Everyday Things, 1990, Doubleday ISBN 0-385-26774-6 (paperback). This is a very popular book on good (and bad) design of the devices with which we interact on a daily basis, and as such it provides insights and inspiration about how to design usable software. 8. Donald A. Norman & Stephen W. Draper (Editors) User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1986. ISBN 0-89859-872-9 (paper). This is an early set of readings that defined the idea of designing systems for users first. 9. Sidney L. Smith & Jane N. Mosier. Guidelines for Designing User Interface Software. ESD-TR-86-278. Bedford, MA 01730: The MITRE Corporation, 1986. ftp archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/hci/Guidelines This set of guidelines is widely used in military systems, but is based on mid-80s technology with little on graphical user interfaces. 10. Bruce Tognazzini. Tog on Interface. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1992. ISBN 0-201-60842-1. A collection of inspiring columns by the user interface "evangelist" of the Apple Macintosh. 11. U.S. Department of Defense. Military Standard: Human Engineering Design Criteria for Military Systems, Equipment and Facilities. MIL-STD-1472D Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, March 14, 1989. Section 5.15 of this standard is largely drawn from the MITRE guidelines. Macintosh HyperCard stack available via anonymous FTP to site archive.cis.ohio-state.edu in directory /pub/hci/1472/. D. User Interface Development - Software 1. Dan R. Olsen, Jr. User Interface Management Systems: Models and Algorithms. Mountain View, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1992. ISBN 1-55860-220-8. Len Bass & Joelle Coutaz. Developing Software for the User Interface. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1991. ISBN 0-201-51056-4. E. User Interface Evaluation 1. Joseph S. Dumas & Janice C. Redish. A Practical Guide to Usability Testing. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1993. ISBN 0-89391-991-8. This step-by-step guide provides checklists and offers insights for every stage of usability testing. 2. Jakob Nielsen. Usability Engineering. Boston, MA: Academic Press, 1993. ISBN 0-12-518405-0. This book immediately sold out when it was first published. It is an practical handbook for people who want to evaluate systems. 3. Jakob Nielsen & Robert L. Mack (Eds.) Usability Inspection Methods. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994. ISBN 0-471-01877-5. This book contains chapters contributed by experts on usability inspections methods such as heuristic evaluation, cognitive walkthroughs, and others. 4. Randolph G. Bias & Deborah J. Mayhew (Eds.) Cost-Justifying Usability. Boston: Academic Press, 1994. ISBN 0-12-095810-4. This edited collection contains 14 chapters devoted to the demonstration of the importance of usability evaluation to the success of software development. 5. Michael E. Wiklund (Ed.) Usability in Practice: How Companies Develop User-Friendly Products. Boston: Academic Press, 1994. ISBN 0-12-751250-0. This collection of contributed chapters describes usability practices of 17 companies: American Airlines, Ameritech, Apple, Bellcore, Borland, Compaq, Digital, Dun & Bradstreet, Kodak, GE Information Services, GTE Labs, H-P, Lotus, Microsoft, Silicon Graphics, Thompson Consumer Electronics, and Ziff Desktop Information. It amounts to the broadest usability lab tour ever. F. Styleguides for Specific Platforms The following style guides define (or redefine) a standard to which all applications on that platform should conform. Thanks to Samu Mielonen (f1sami@uta.fi) Univ. of Tampere, Finland, for compiling an earlier version of the styleguide list. 1. Apple Computer, Inc. Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1992. ISBN 0-201-62216-5. There is an interactive animated companion CD-ROM to these Mac guidelines called "Making it Macintosh", Addison-Wesley, 1993. ISBN 0-201-62626-8. 2. Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Amiga User Interface Style Guide. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1991. ISBN 0-201-57757-7. 3. GO Corporation. PenPoint User Interface Design Reference. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1992. ISBN 0-201-60858-8. 4. Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sunsoft Inc. & USL. Common Desktop Environment: Functional Specification (Preliminary Draft). X/Open Company Ltd., 1993. ISBN 1-85912-001-6. ftp XOPEN.CO.UK/pub/cdespec1/cde1_ps.Z 5. IBM. Object-Oriented Interface Design: IBM Common User Access Guidelines. Carmel, Indiana: Que, 1992. ISBN 1-56529-170-0. 6. James Martin, Kathleen Kavanagh Chapman & Joe Leben. Systems Application Architecture: Common User Access. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1991. ISBN 0-13-785023-9. 7. Microsoft Corporation. The GUI Guide: International Terminology for the Windows Interface. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1993. ISBN 1-55615-538-7. 8. Microsoft Corporation. The Windows Interface: An Application Design Guide. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1992. ISBN 1-55615-384-8. 9. Open Software Foundation. OSF/Motif Style Guide. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993. ISBN 0-13-643123-2. 10. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXTSTEP User Interface Guidelines (Release 3). Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1992. ISBN 0-201-63250-0. 11. Sun Microsystems, Inc. OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface Application Style Guidelines. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-52364-7. 12. Sun Microsystems, Inc. OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface Functional Specification. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-52365-5. G. Human Factors and Ergonomics 1. Barry H. Kantowitz & Robert D. Sorkin. Human Factors: Understanding People-System Relationships. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1983. ISBN 0-471-09594-X. 2. Kenneth R. Boff & Janet E. Lincoln (Editors). Engineering Data Compendium: Human Perception and Performance. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio: Harry G. Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, 1988. 3. Ernest J. McCormick & M. S. Sanders. Human Factors in Engineering and Design. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1987. Perlman expects soon to review the new edition (7th?) dated 1993. 4. David Meister. Human Factors Evaluation and Testing. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1986. 5. Richard Rubinstein & Harry Hersh. The Human Factor: Designing Computer Systems for People. Maynard, MA: Digital Press, 1984. ISBN 0-932376-44-4. 6. Gavriel Salvendy (Editor). Handbook of Human Factors. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1987. ISBN 0-471-88015-9. -- 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 From portal.gmu.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!concert!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!dalamb Sun Mar 12 16:25:28 1995 Path: portal.gmu.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!concert!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!dalamb From: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.answers,news.answers Subject: Comp.software-eng FAQ (Part 4): CASE tool vendors Supersedes: Followup-To: comp.software-eng Date: 12 Mar 1995 10:16:37 GMT Organization: Computing and Information Science, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada Lines: 566 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Distribution: world Expires: 23 Apr 1995 10:15:37 GMT Message-ID: References: Reply-To: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb) NNTP-Posting-Host: quilt.qucis.queensu.ca Keywords: FAQ Originator: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca Xref: portal.gmu.edu comp.software-eng:12714 comp.answers:7504 news.answers:23640 Last-Modified: 12 Feb 1995 Archive-name: software-eng/part4 This is a list of contact information for CASE tool vendors, originally compiled by Scott Marcus and/or Theo Heavey , CASE research group, Dept. of Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University; sponsored by Florida Industry High Technology Council. After they lost their funding for this list, the only way we've been able to keep it up to date is if people volunteer to tell us what needs to change. Please e-mail corrections to dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca. This information is available through the World-Wide Web as http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-Engineering/vendor.html Adpac Corp. Adpac CASE Tools 340 Brannan St.; San Francisco, CA 94107; 415-974-6699 Advanced Concepts Center Martin Marietta Corporation; 640 Freedom Business Center; King of Prussia, PA 19406; 1-800-438-7246; Fax: (610) 992-6499 Advanced Logical Software Anatool 9903 Santa Monica Blvd., suite 108; Beverly Hills, CA 90212; 213-653-5786 Advanced Software Automation Hindsight (ASA20/20, SQA, TCA) (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software- Engineering/blurb/Hindsight.html) 3130A Coronado Dr.; Santa Clara, CA 95054; Tel: 800-4-ASAINC; 800-427-2462; Fax: 408-492-1669 Advanced Software Technologies, Inc. Graphical Designer 7800 S. Elati Street, Suite 300, Littleton, CO 80120-4456; 303-730-7981; FAX: 303-730-7983; sales@advancedsw.com Advanced System Technologies Inc. QASE (information systems development environment) 12200 E. Briarwood Ave., Suite 260; Englewood, Colorado 80112 Fax: (303) 790-2816; Tel: (303) 790-4242 Advanced Technology International, Inc. SuperCase (back-end, reverse engineering) Corporate HQ: 1501 Broadway, Suite 1314; New York, NY 10036; Tel: (212) 354-8280 West Coast Office: 8950 Villa La Jolla Drive, Suite 1200; La Jolla, CA 92037; Tel: (619) 453-3050 AGS Management Systems, Inc. Multi/CAM (front end) 880 First Ave.; King of Prussia, PA 19406; 215-265-1550 American Management Systems, Inc. Life Cycle Productivity System (front end, back end) 1777 North Kent St.; Arlington, VA 22209; 703-841-6060 Applied Business Technology Corp. Project Workbench 361 Broadway; New York, NY 10013; 212-219-8945 Applied Data Research, Inc. DEPICTOR (front end) Route 206 and Orchard Rd.; CN-8; Princeton, NJ 08543 Arthur Andersen & Co. Design/1 (front end, back end, RE/M) 33 West Monroe St.; Chicago, IL 60603 69 West Washington; Chicago, IL 60602; 312-580-0069; 312-580-0033; 312-507-5161 Ascent Logic Corporation RDD-100 (systems engineering, requirements analaysis) 180 Rose Orchard Way, Suite 200; San Jose, CA 95134; phone: 408-943-0630; FAX: 408-943-0705 ASYST Technologies, Inc. The Developer One Naperville Plaza; Naperville, IL 60540; 800-361-3673 Atherton Technology Software BackPlane, Project Softboard, Integration Softboard 1333 Bordeaux Drive; Sunnyvale, CA. 94089; Tele: 408 734-9822; Fax: 408 744-1607 Atria Software (see http://www.atria.com/) ClearCase 24 Prime Park Way, Natick, MA 01760; tel. (508)-650-5100; info@atria.com Bachman Information Systems BACHMAN Product Set, BACHMAN/Analyst (reverse engineering, front end) 8 New England Executive Park; Burlington, MA 01803; 617-273-9003 800-BACHMAN Bell-Northern Research ObjecTime now supplied through ObjecTime Ltd. Berard Software Engineering Berard Object and Class Specifier (BOCS) 902 Wind River Lane, Suite 203; Gaitherburg, Maryland 20878; 301-417-9884; Fax: (301) 417 0021; info@bse.com Bullseye Software C-Cover (test coverage analyzer, measurement) (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-Engineering/blurb/ccover.html) 5129 24th Ave NE STE 9; Seattle WA 98105-3230; 800-278-4268; email info@bullseye.com Cadre Technologies, Inc (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software- Engineering/blurb/cadre.html) ObjecTeam, Teamwork 222 Richmond St.; Providence, RI 02903; 401-351-5950; 401-351-CASE The CADWARE Group, Ltd SYLVA Series (Front end) CASE Methods Development Corp. CASE/FRAMEWORK--METHODOLOGY, CASE/FRAMEWORK--SYNERGY (Information Engineering Methodology) 100 N. Central Exwy.; Suite 710; Richardson, TX 75080; tel: 214-644-8173 fax: 214-644-8175 CaseWare, Inc (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software- Engineering/blurb/caseware) CaseWare/CM (formerly Amplify Control), CaseWare/PT 108 Pacifica; Irvine, CA 92718-3332; voice: (714) 453 2200 FAX: (714) 453 2276 CASEWorks, Inc. CASE:PM 1 Dunwoody Park, Suite 130; Atlanta, GA 30338; 404-399-6236 Fax: 404-399-9516 The Catalyst Group PATHVU Series (RE/M) Peat Marwick Main & Co.; 303 East Wacker Dr.; Chicago, IL 60601 800-323-3059; 312-938-5352 CGI Systems, Inc. PACBase, PACBench, PACDesign, Transform (front end, back end, RE/M) 1 Blue Hill Plaza; Pearl River, NY 10965; 914-735-5030 Chen & Associates ER-Designer (ERD) 4884 Constitution Ave, Ste 1E; Baton Rouge, LA 70808; 504-928-5765 Cincom Systems, Inc. Supra, Mantis, Easy PC Contact, CASE Interchange 2300 Montana Ave.; Cincinnati, OH 45211; 800-888-0115 CodeME s.a.r.l. CMZ (configuration management) (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-Engineering/blurb/CMZ) 14 Rue de l'Eglise, F-01630 St. Genis-Pouilly, France; +33 50420914; FAX +33 50420914; codeme@cernvm.cern.ch Coding Factory CoFac (Cobol generator) 100 Netro Park South; Laurence Harbor, NJ 08878; 908-290-0090 Cognos PowerCASE 67 S. Bedford St.; Burlington, Mass. 01803; 617-229-6600 Computer Associates International, Inc. CA-Datacom, CA-Ideal, CA-Dataquery, CA-Dataquery PC Computer Associates World Headquarters; 711 Stewart Ave. Garden City, NY 11530; 516-227-3300 Computer Data Systems Scan/COBOL, SuperStructure 1 Curie Court; Rockville, MD 20850; 202-921-7000 Computer Sciences Corp Design Generator (front end) 3610 Fairview Park Dr; Falls Church, VA 22042; 703-876-1000 Computer Systems Advisers, Inc Picture Oriented Software Environment (POSE) 4.0, SilverRun 50 Tice Blvd.; Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07675; 800-537-4262; 201-391-6500 Compuware Corporation CATI tools (Abend-AID, CICS Abend-AID, CICS RADAR, File-AID family, TransRELATE, PLAYBACK, File PLAYBACK, SIMULCAST, dBUG-AID, XPEDITER, NAVIGATOR) 31440 Northwestern Highway; Farmington Hills, Michigan 48018-5550 Cortex Corp. CorVision, Application Factory (front end, back end, RE/M) 138 Technology Dr.; Waltham, MA 02154 100 Fifth Avenue; Waltham, MA 02154-9863; 617-894-7000 Cullinet Software, Inc. IDMS/Architect D. Appleton Company IDEF/Leverage 1334 Park View Ave., Suite 220; Manhattan Beach, CA 90266; 213-546-7575 Deft Inc. Deft 567 Dixon Rd., suite 110; Rexdale, ON M9W 1H7; Canada; 416-249-2246 Deloitte, Haskins & Sells 4Front 200 East Randolph Dr.; Chicago, IL 60601; 312-856-8168 Digital Equipment Corp. DECASE, COHESIONworX, COHESION Team/SEE (PCMS) DECdirect; Continental Blvd.; Merrimack, NH 03054; 800-344-4825 Digital Insight (see http://www.csn.net:80/digins/) Robochart (flow diagram editor) (see http://www.csn.net/digins/prodinfo.html) P.O. Box 533; Simi Valley, CA 93062-0533; USA; phone: (805) 583-3627 fax: (805) 583-3809; e-mail: rc-sales@digins.com Digital Tools Inc. AutoPLAN (project scheduling tool) 18900 Stevens Creek Blvd.; Cupertino, California 95014; phone: 408-366-6920; fax: 408-446-2140 ECS Associates SQL-Link-Plus 3812 Sepulveda Blvd.; Torrance, CA 90505; 213-378-9260 Eslog Genie logiciel Andromede (IPSE (incl. 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(+32) 3 235-7955 Interactive Development Environments Software through Pictures (front end), C Development Environment 595 Market St., 10th Floor; San Francisco, CA 94105; 415-543-0900; sales@ide.com Intersolv (merger of Index and Sage) Excelerator 1.84 (I-CASE (front end, back end, RE/M)), Polytron Version Control System (PVCS), APS Development Center Corporate HQ: 3200 Tower Oaks Blvd.; Rockville, Maryland 20852; 301-230-3200 International HQ: Abbey View; Everard Close; St. Albans; Herts AL1 2PS United Kingdom; Tel: 0727812812 IPSYS Software Plc ToolBuilder Marlborough Court,; Pickford Street,; MACCLESFIELD, Cheshire, SK11 6JD United Kingdon; Tel: +44 625 616722; E-mail: support@ipsys.co.uk KnowledgeWare, Inc. Application Development Workbench (ADW), RECODER, INSPECTOR 3340 Peachtree Rd.; Atlanta, GA 30026; 404-231-8575; 800-338-4130 Language Technology (defunct; products acquired by KnowledgeWare) LDRA Group of Companies LDRA Testbed (static/dynamic analysis test toolset) (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-Engineering/blurb/LDRA) (ALL E-mail ijh@ldra.com) LDRA Technology Inc.: 3000-3 Hartley Road, Jacksonville, FL 32257, USA; 904 268 3267; Fax: 904 268 0733. Program Analysers Ltd,: 56a Northbrook Street, Newbury, Berks, RG13 1AN, UK; 0635 528828; Fax: 0635 528657. LDRA Technologie S.A.: Off Shore Voie No1, BP17 Batiment Stratege, 31312 Labege, Cedex, France; 33 61 39 77 77; Fax: 33 61 39 23 22. Learmonth & Burchett Management Systems, Inc. (LBMS) System Engineer (nee Auto-Mate Plus) 1800 West Loop South, Suite 1800; Houston, TX 77027; 713-682-8530 800-231-7515 MAGEC Software MAGEC (Full Cycle Cobol database apps) 4054 INFOMART; 1950 Stemmons Freeway; Dallas, TX 75207; 800-336-2432 214-746-4000; FAX: 214-746-4099 Manager Software Products, Inc. Manager Series (Front end, back end) 131 Hartwell Ave; Lexington, MA 02173-3126; 617-863-5800 Mathworks MATLAB/Simulink 24 Prime Park Way; Natick, MA 01760-1520; (508) 653-1415 Mark V Systems, Ltd. ObjectMaker 2.1 (aka Adagen) (cross-lifecycle) 16400 Ventura Blvd., Suite 303; Encino, CA 91436; 818-995-7671 (voice) 818-995-4267 (fax); mo@markv.com Matterhorn, Inc. HIBOL (back end) McCabe & Associates ACT, BAT, DCT, CodeBreaker (Reverse Engineering/Maintenance) 5501 Twin Knolls Road, Suite 111; Columbia, Maryland 21045; 800-638-6316 McDonnell Information Systems (MDIS) ProKit*WORKBENCH, PRO-IV Workbench (windows ver of DOS ProKit) (upper CASE), PRO-IV Application Development (lower CASE) Mail Code 3065600, 325 McDonnell Blvd., Hazelwood, MO 63042; 1-800-225-7760; Fax: 1-314-233-6331 Mentor Graphics Corp. Analyst/RT, Designer, Auditor (front end) 8500 Southwest Creekside Place; Beaverton, OR 97005; 503-626-7000 Meridian Software Systems, Inc. OpenSELECT CASE (front end) 10 Pasteur Street; Irvine, CA 92718; 714-727-0700 (ext. 224) fax: 714-727-3583 Meta Systems QuickSpec, Structured Architect (SA), Structured Architect-Integrator (SA- I), PSL/PSA, Report Specification Interface (RSI), View Integration System (VIS) (front end, RE/M) 315 E. Eisenhower Parkway, Suite 200; Ann Arbor, MI 48108; 313-663-6027 MetaCase Consulting OY MetaEdit (o-o upper CASE tool) P.O. Box 449; FIN-40101 Jyvaskyla, Finland; tel. & fax. +358-41-650 400 Micro Focus, Inc. COBOL/2 Workbench 2465 East Bayshore Rd.; Palo Alto, CA 94303; 415-856-4161 Mortice Kern Systems RCS (for DOS/Windows, OS/2, NT, some UNIX and HP systems), MKS Toolkit (for DOS, OS/2, NT) Customer Service; Mortice Kern Systems Inc.; 185 Columbia Street West; Waterloo, Ontario N2L 5Z5; (519)884-2251; (519)884-8861 FAX (800)265-2797; inquiry@mks.com Netron, Inc. NETRON/CAP 99 St. Regis Crescent N; Downsview, Ontario; Canada M3J 1Y9; 416-636-8333 Object International, Inc. OOAtool (object-oriented analysis) 8140 N. MoPac Expwy, 4-200; Austin, TX 78759-8864 USA (512) 795-0202 (voice); (512) 795-0332 (fax) ObjecTime Ltd. 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TurboCASE 3.0 (front end (for the Mac)) 5416 156th Ave. SE; Bellevue, WA 98006; tel: 206-644-9834; fax: 206-644-7714 Structured Solutions STRADIS (system development methodology) 400 Interstate North Parkway, Suite 800, Atlanta, Georgia 30339; (404) 618-7900 Syscorp International, Inc. MicroStep 1.3 9420 Research Blvd., Suite 200; Austin, TX 78759; 512-338-0591 System Software Associates AS/Set 500 W. Madison; Chicago, Ill. 60606; 312-641-2900 Systematica Ltd. (now Virtual Software Factory Ltd.) 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