From: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb)
Subject: Welcome to comp.software-eng
Followup-To: comp.software-eng
Keywords: FAQ
Supersedes: <faqmsg_702960905@qucis.QueensU.CA>
Reply-To: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb)
Organization: Computing and Information Science, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario,  K7L 3N6, Canada
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 02:59:13 GMT
Expires: Mon, 25 May 1992 02:59:10 GMT


Archive-name: software-eng/part1

Welcome to comp.software-eng, a newsgroup for discussion of software
engineering and related topics.  This message is followed by three others,
each summarizing a set of "frequently asked questions" (FAQs):
    FAQ CASE tools summary
    FAQ Software engineering readings
    FAQ Questions and answers
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).

The main change this month (aside from a few more archive files) is a
reformatting of the FAQ messages into "digest" format.  Also, there
was a problem with some new automatic posting software I was trying to
use, so some sites may have received three copies of this first
message.

The following files are available via anonymous FTP from directory
pub/software-eng on host qusuna.qucis.queensu.ca (130.15.1.100).  Log
in with user ID 'anonymous' and use your mailing address as the
password. Each file has a header (in e-mail or news format) that
credits the original collector.  If you cannot use FTP, send mail to
archive-server@qucis.queensu.ca containing a line of the form
	send software-eng f1 f2 ...
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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.
  Name             Changed Description
  faqmsg       10 Apr 1992 FAQ welcome message
  casemsg      10 Apr 1992 FAQ CASE tools summary
  readmsg      10 Apr 1992 FAQ Software engineering readings
  questmsg     10 Apr 1992 FAQ Questions and answers
  README        9 Apr 1992 This list of files
  2167a        11 Oct 1991 DoD-Std-2167a and life cycle models
  ada           2 Aug 1991 bibliography on Ada and software engineering
  aiswe        15 Feb 1992 readings: artificial intelligence and soft.eng.
  bachman      10 Sep 1991 Bachman information modeling
  bookreview   10 Apr 1992 Book reviews
  cadreTeam    10 Sep 1991 Opinions re CADRE Teamwork
  CASEexp       2 Oct 1991 experience with CASE tools
  cleanroom     9 Apr 1992 Cleanroom software development
  cmtools      10 Apr 1992 Configuration management tools
  color        28 Feb 1992 Ergonomics of color displays
  cubicle      28 Feb 1992 Prodictivity effect of offices vs. cubicles
  diagramedit  15 Feb 1992 Diagram editors and tools for building them
  education    10 Apr 1992 Software Engineering education and degree programs
  environment  19 Sep 1991 Software Engineering environments
  facet        18 Sep 1991 Faceted classification and multiple inheritance
  formal       10 Apr 1992 formal methods in the USA
  funcpoints   10 Apr 1992 function/feature points
  hood          2 Oct 1991 Hierachical Object-Oriented Design
  horror       10 Apr 1992 Computer horror stories
  hungarian    11 Oct 1991 papers on Hungarian notation
  ieee          2 Oct 1991 IEEE software engineering standards
  inspect      13 Feb 1992 Code inspection techniques
  maint         9 Apr 1992 Software maintenance laws
  manuals       6 Mar 1992 Guidelines for software manuals
  maturity     15 Feb 1992 SEI Capability Maturity Model
  ooformat     10 Jan 1992 Format for object-oriented design documents
  oomaint      10 Apr 1992 maintenance and complexity in o-o systems
  oomethod     10 Apr 1992 Object-oriented methodologies
  pctecais      6 Mar 1992 Comments on PCTE, CAIS-A, ATIS
  pdcase       10 Apr 1992 Public-domain CASE tools
  pmtools      15 Feb 1992 Project management and design tools
  productivity 18 Sep 1991 Feature point productivity for several countries
  readcase     13 Feb 1992 Bibliography on CASE
  readintro    15 Feb 1992 Introducing your manager/customer to SE ideas
  realtime     15 Feb 1992 Information on realtime software development
  reflist      15 Feb 1992 Tero Ahtee's software engineering reference list
  regress      10 Jan 1992 Regression testing tools
  restruct      6 Mar 1992 Tools for restructuring and reverse engineering
  safety       10 Jan 1992 Formal methods and software safety
  specmark     15 Feb 1992 SPEC modern architecture benchmarks
  spiral       10 Jan 1992 References on Spiral life-cycle model
  statecharts  15 Feb 1992 Reference list on Harel's statecharts
  static       10 Apr 1992 Software metrics and static analysis
  statsTool    21 Oct 1991 X-based statistics and graphing packages
  sunCperf     17 Aug 1991 SUN/C performance baseline tools
  techTransfer 10 Apr 1992 Technology transfer
  testTools    15 Feb 1992 Tools for testing
  transynth    15 Feb 1992 Transformation/synthesis systems
  vdm-z        15 Feb 1992 formal methods Z and VDM
  verification 10 Apr 1992 References on program verifier design