Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.answers,news.answers Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!hookup!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!dalamb From: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb) Subject: Comp.software-eng periodic postings and archives Message-ID: Followup-To: comp.software-eng Keywords: FAQ Sender: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Lamb) Supersedes: Reply-To: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb) Organization: Computing and Information Science, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada Date: Sat, 16 Apr 1994 12:05:11 GMT Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Expires: Sat, 4 Jun 1994 12:05:06 GMT Lines: 236 Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu comp.software-eng:11152 comp.answers:4926 news.answers:18126 Last-Modified: 4 Aug 1993 Archive-name: software-eng/part0 Welcome to comp.software-eng, a newsgroup for discussion of software engineering and related topics. This message is followed by three others, each summarizing a set of "frequently asked questions" (FAQs): FAQ 1: comp.software-eng questions and answers FAQ 2: CASE tools summary FAQ 3: Software engineering readings Be warned: the only mechanism we use to compose these lists is to gather information submitted by people around the net, post it regularly, and incorporate feedback. All evaluations are the opinions of those who submitted them; your mileage may vary. Send comments to dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb). Many FAQs, including this one, are available on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which a FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-name line at the top of the article. This FAQ, and the parts that follow, are archived as software-eng/part0 through software-eng/part3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: other newsgroups The following other newsgroups discuss topics related to software engineering; consequently, coverage of these topics in this newsgroup (and thus the comp.software-eng archives) tends to be sparse. Many of these groups have their own FAQ's, which you can find in the appropriate *.answers group (e.g. comp.answers for any group whose name starts with "comp."). comp.groupware Software & hardware for shared interactive environments comp.lang.* Discussion of specific programming languages. comp.newprod Announcements of new products comp.object Object-oriented analysis, design, programming, & systems comp.programming Programming, especially algorithms and data structures comp.realtime Computer-based realtime systems comp.specification Formal specification methods comp.specification.z The Z formal specification notation comp.sw.components Reusable software components ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: comp.software-eng archives The following files are available via anonymous FTP from directory pub/software-eng on host ftp.qucis.queensu.ca (130.15.1.93). Log in with user ID 'anonymous' and use your mailing address as the password. Each file has a header (in e-mail or news format) that credits the original collector. If you cannot use FTP, send mail to archive-server@qucis.queensu.ca containing a line of the form send software-eng f1 f2 ... where f1, f2, and so on are the names of the files from this list; the mail server should respond within an hour or so plus mailing delays (which can themselves be substantial if you're not directly on the internet). If you want to find out more about the archive server, send mail to the same address with a line containing the word 'help'; if you do this you can't also request files in the same message. If your mailer has trouble with large files, use the 'size ' command to set a threshold, above which the server will split files into several messages. Name Changed Description faqmsg 31 Jul 1993 comp.software-eng periodic postings and archives questmsg 31 Jul 1993 FAQ 1: comp.software-eng questions and answers casemsg 31 Jul 1993 FAQ 2: CASE tools summary readmsg 31 Jul 1993 FAQ 3: Software engineering readings README 31 Jul 1993 This list of files 2167a 31 Jul 1993 DoD-Std-2167a and life cycle models ada 26 Jan 1993 bibliography on Ada and software engineering aiswe 13 May 1992 readings: artificial intelligence and soft.eng. anecdote 31 Jul 1993 Anecdotes/stories about software engineering bachman 10 Sep 1991 Bachman information modeling bookTOC 9 Jul 1993 Tables of contents of books bookreview 10 Apr 1992 Book reviews CASEexp 2 Oct 1991 experience with CASE tools cdif 31 Jul 1993 CASE Data Interchange Format cleanroom 30 Jul 1993 Cleanroom software development cmtools 31 Jul 1993 Configuration management tools color 4 Jun 1992 Ergonomics of color displays concur 31 Jul 1993 Concurrent Engineering cubicle 28 Feb 1992 Productivity effect of offices vs. cubicles defect 26 Mar 1993 Defect tracking designchange 7 Jul 1992 Effect of design changes diagramedit 31 Jul 1993 Diagram editors and tools for building them education 30 Jul 1993 Software Engineering education and degree programs environment 15 May 1992 Software Engineering environments ethics 11 Dec 1992 ACM code of ethics facet 18 Sep 1991 Faceted classification and multiple inheritance fault 7 Jul 1992 Fault Tolerance references formal 31 Jul 1993 formal methods in the USA funcpoints 10 Apr 1992 function/feature points hood 2 Oct 1991 Hierachical Object-Oriented Design horror 31 Jul 1993 Computer horror stories hungarian 11 Oct 1991 papers on Hungarian notation ieee 2 Oct 1991 IEEE software engineering standards inspect 30 Jul 1993 Code inspection techniques knowuser 31 Jul 1993 Discussion on whether to ``know the user'' lotos 31 Jul 1993 Language of Temporal Ordering of Specifications maint 9 Apr 1992 Software maintenance laws manuals 6 Mar 1992 Guidelines for software manuals maturity 31 Jul 1993 SEI Capability Maturity Model oodb 30 Jul 1993 Object-oriented databases ooformat 10 Jan 1992 Format for object-oriented design documents oomaint 10 Apr 1992 maintenance and complexity in o-o systems oomethod 31 Jul 1993 Object-oriented methodologies pdcase 7 Jul 1992 Public-domain CASE tools performance 26 Mar 1993 performance analysis tools petri 7 Jul 1992 Petri net tools pmtools 30 Jul 1993 Project management and design tools portableC 30 Jul 1993 writing portable C code probtrack 13 Apr 1992 Problem tracking tools productivity 18 Sep 1991 Feature point productivity for several countries proto 7 Jul 1992 Prototyping readcase 13 Feb 1992 Bibliography on CASE readintro 15 Feb 1992 Introducing your manager/customer to SE ideas realtime 15 Feb 1992 Information on realtime software development reflist 22 May 1992 Tero Ahtee's software engineering reference list reqelicit 31 Jul 1993 Requirement Elicitation restruct 7 Jul 1992 Tools for restructuring and reverse engineering reuse 31 Jul 1993 Discussion of software re-use. safety 31 Jul 1993 Formal methods and software safety SEorigin 31 Jul 1993 Origin of term ``software engineering'' specmark 15 Feb 1992 SPEC modern architecture benchmarks spiral 10 Jan 1992 References on Spiral life-cycle model standards 31 Jul 1993 standards relevant to software engineering statecharts 15 Feb 1992 Reference list on Harel's statecharts static 31 Jul 1993 Software metrics and static analysis statsTool 21 Oct 1991 X-based statistics and graphing packages strucAD 31 Jul 1993 Stuctured analysis and design and SADT syslevel 30 Jul 1993 Realtime/hardware system-level CASE tools techTransfer 10 Apr 1992 Technology transfer testing 31 Jul 1993 Discussion of testing (and inspection) testTools 31 Jul 1993 Tools for testing transynth 15 Feb 1992 Transformation/synthesis systems uims 3 Aug 1993 User Interface Management Systems vdm-z 31 Jul 1993 formal methods Z and VDM verification 10 Apr 1992 References on program verifier design ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: more detailed information on specific products The following files are in the "blurb" subdirectory of the software engineering archives at qucis.queensu.ca; retrieve them as described for the main archives, except that for the mail archive server you say send software-eng/blurb f1 f2 .... The files consist of comments on individual products or companies. When a vendor sends me detailed information on a product that won't fit into the FAQ, I put it here - along with other comments from the net. Name Changed Description FIELD 9 Jul 1993 Brown University FIELD environment IFAD 9 Jul 1993 VDM-SL toolbox PCTE-ATIS-CAIS 31 Jul 1993 Discussion of PCTE vs ATIS vs CAIS ParaSET 9 Jul 1993 parametric software development PurePulse 9 Jul 1993 Pure software newsletter aegis 29 Mar 1993 project change supervisor autoplan 26 Jan 1993 project scheduling tool cadreTeam 31 Jul 1993 Cadre TEAMWORK caseware 26 Jan 1993 configuration management and problem tracking cvs 30 Jul 1993 CVS version management tool ief 31 Jul 1993 TI Information Engineering Facility jaloteSEtext 31 Jul 1993 P.Jalote's "An Integrated Approach to Software Engi objectime 26 Mar 1993 real-time object-oriented methodology parcplace 22 Mar 1993 Smalltalk and C++ tools rational 26 Jan 1993 Rational Inc. Ada environment, Rose OOD tool razor 26 Jan 1993 issue tracking, configuration management rcs 5 Oct 1992 version control system rdd-100 31 Jul 1993 Requirements Driven Developer robochart 26 Jan 1993 diagram editor schach2e 28 Apr 1993 Schach's "Basic Software Engineering" text sextant 9 Jul 1993 UNIX/C environment shapetools 26 Jan 1993 shapetools version management/make-like tool specbox 31 Jul 1993 VDM support tool stp-teamwork 31 Jul 1993 Comparison of Software Thru Pictures and Cadre Team telelogic 26 Jan 1993 Environment for CCITT SDL vista 26 Mar 1993 Vista Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: WAIS server I have created a WAIS database that indexes the comp.software-eng archives. It's still experimental; I'm still playing with appropriate "file types" for the various files, so you get a subsection of a file in response to a query, instead of the whole giant file (at the moment only a few of the files are subdivided, and not always in a useful way). The .src file follows at the end of this message. The following is taken from the WAIS FAQ.txt file: WAIS is available via anonymous FTP from a variety of sources. The main distributor is think.com, in the wais subdirectory. a. a mac client? think.com:/wais/WAIStation0.62.hqx b. a unix client? a few UNIX based clients are available in the core distribution, which can be found on think.com: think.com:/wais/wais-8-b#.tar.Z, where # is the most recent version (4 at this time). This includes the server, and clients for X Windows, GNU Emacs and a couple of simple shell-based clients. c. a dos client? The University of North Carolina has been a main developement site for WAIS software. Several DOS clients can be found in the FTP archives on wais.oit.unc.edu. d. a NeXT client? A client for NeXT can be found in think.com:/wais/XXX e. a VMS client? WAIS has been ported to VMS by the folks at the University of North Carolina. f. the server? An example WAIS server is part of the core distribution. (:source :version 3 :ip-address "130.15.1.93" :ip-name "ftp.qucis.queensu.ca" :tcp-port 210 :database-name "software-eng" :cost 0.00 :cost-unit :free :maintainer "dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca" :description "Server created with WAIS release 8 b5.1 on Jun 17 16:10:48 1993 by dalamb@quilt The files of type mail_digest used in the index were: /usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/casemsg /usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/questmsg /usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/readmsg /usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/color /usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/testTools /usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/pmtools /usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/static /usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/petri /usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/inspect /usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/proto /usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/fault /usr/local/ftp/pub/software-eng/performance " ) -- Software Technology Laboratory dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb) Computing and Information Science phone: (613) 545-6067 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6