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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 [e-mail] (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.

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Subject: World-Wide Web archives
Date: 28 Oct 1994

The information in the FAQs and the comp.software-eng archives is available
through the World-Wide Web (via browsers such as Mosaic and Lynx) at URL
    http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-Engineering/
Everything visible through the Web is also available via FTP;  the above URL
leads to the same directory as you get via anonymous FTP to
    ftp://ftp.qucis.queensu.ca/pub/software-eng/www

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Subject: other newsgroups
Date: 28 Oct 1994

The following other newsgroups discuss topics related to software engineering;
consequently, coverage of these topics in this newsgroup (and thus the
comp.software-eng archives) tends to be sparse.  Many of these groups have
their own FAQ's, which you can find in the appropriate *.answers group (e.g.
comp.answers for any group whose name starts with "comp.").

comp.groupware              Software/hardware for shared interactive environments
comp.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

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Subject: comp.software-eng archives
Date: 29 Oct 1994

The following files are available via anonymous FTP from
    ftp://ftp.qucis.queensu.ca/pub/software-eng/archive
Log in with user ID 'anonymous' and use your mailing address as the
password. Each file has a header (in e-mail or news format) that credits the
original collector.  If you cannot use FTP, send mail to
[e-mail] containing a line of the form
    send software-eng/archive f1 f2 ...
where f1, f2, and so on are the names of the files from this list; the mail
server should respond within an hour or so plus mailing delays (which can
themselves be substantial if you're not directly on the internet).  If you
want to find out more about the archive server, send mail to the same address
with a line containing the word 'help'; if you do this you can't also request
files in the same message.  If your mailer has trouble with large files, use
the 'size <bytes>' command to set a threshold, above which the server will
split files into several messages.

Readings
  26 Jan 1993 ada: bibliography on Ada and software engineering
  13 May 1992 aiswe: readings: artificial intelligence and soft.eng.
   7 Jul 1992 fault: Fault Tolerance references
  13 Feb 1992 readcase: Bibliography on CASE
  22 May 1992 reflist: Tero Ahtee's software engineering reference list
  15 Feb 1992 statecharts: Reference list on Harel's statecharts
  10 Apr 1992 verification: References on program verifier design
Book reviews
  27 Mar 1992 reviewJapanSoftFactory.html: Michael A. Cusumano: "Japanese
              Software Factories"
  31 Mar 1992 reviewFowlerRifkin.html: Priscilla Fowler and Stan Rifkin:
              "Software Engineering Process Group Guide"
  31 Mar 1992 reviewMarksTesting.html: David M. Marks "Testing Very Big
              Systems"
  29 Oct 1994 reviewNeumannRisks.html: Peter G. Neumann's "Computer-Related
              Risks"
  31 Mar 1992 reviewOuldTesting.html: Ould and Unwin's "Testing in Software
              Development"
  31 Mar 1992 reviewWeinbergQuality.html: Gerald M. Weinberg's "Quality
              Software Management - Volume 1: Systems Thinking"
Tools
   2 Oct 1991 CASEexp: experience with CASE tools
  31 Jul 1993 cmtools: Configuration management tools
  31 Jul 1993 diagramedit: Diagram editors and tools for building them
   7 Jul 1992 pdcase: Public-domain CASE tools
  26 Mar 1993 performance: performance analysis tools
   7 Jul 1992 petri: Petri net tools
  30 Jul 1993 pmtools: Project management and design tools
  13 Apr 1992 probtrack: Problem tracking tools
   7 Jul 1992 restruct: Tools for restructuring and reverse engineering
  21 Oct 1991 statsTool: X-based statistics and graphing packages
  30 Jul 1993 syslevel: Realtime/hardware system-level CASE tools
  31 Jul 1993 testTools: Tools for testing
  15 Feb 1992 transynth: Transformation/synthesis systems
   3 Aug 1993 uims: User Interface Management Systems
Uncatalogued topics
  31 Jul 1993 2167a: DoD-Std-2167a and life cycle models
  31 Jul 1993 anecdote: Anecdotes/stories about software engineering
  10 Sep 1991 bachman: Bachman information modeling
   9 Jul 1993 bookTOC: Tables of contents of books
  31 Jul 1993 cdif: CASE Data Interchange Format
  30 Jul 1993 cleanroom: Cleanroom software development
   4 Jun 1992 color: Ergonomics of color displays
  31 Jul 1993 concur: Concurrent Engineering
  28 Feb 1992 cubicle: Productivity effect of offices vs. cubicles
  26 Mar 1993 defect: Defect tracking
   7 Jul 1992 designchange: Effect of design changes
  30 Jul 1993 education: Software Engineering education and degree programs
  15 May 1992 environment: Software Engineering environments
  11 Dec 1992 ethics: ACM code of ethics
  18 Sep 1991 facet: Faceted classification and multiple inheritance
  29 Oct 1994 FDA.html: Food and Drug Administration and Software
  31 Jul 1993 formal: formal methods in the USA
  10 Apr 1992 funcpoints: function/feature points
   2 Oct 1991 hood: Hierachical Object-Oriented Design
  31 Jul 1993 horror: Computer horror stories
   7 Apr 1995 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

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Subject: more detailed information on specific products

The following files are in the "blurb" subdirectory of the software
engineering archives at qucis.queensu.ca;  retrieve them as described for the
main archives, except that for the mail archive server you say
     send software-eng/blurb f1 f2 ....
The files consist of comments on individual products or companies.  When a
vendor sends me detailed information on a product that won't fit into the FAQ,
I put it here - along with other comments from the net.

Books
  22 Oct 1994 ooexample: Berard Software Engineering's "A Complete Object-
              Oriented Design Example"
  22 Oct 1994 ooproj: Berard Software Engineering's "A Project Management
              Handbook for Object-Oriented Software Development"
   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"
   7 Apr 1995 safeware.html: Nancy Leveson's "Safeware: System Safety and
              Computers"
  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
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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??



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Subject: What's a CASE Tool?
Date: 27 Oct 1994
Archive file: casemsg (thanks to Scott McGregor <[e-mail]> 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.


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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


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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.


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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: [phone]
    FAX:   [phone]


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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.


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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


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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.


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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 _S_o_f_t_w_a_r_e _E_n_g_i_n_e_e_r_i_n_g _E_c_o_n_o_m_i_c_s, claims that
anomalies that seriously "fool" the LOC metric show up rarely in real code.
-    R. Nelson _S_o_f_t_w_a_r_e _D_a_t_e _C_o_l_l_e_c_t_i_o_n _a_n_d _A_n_a_l_y_s_i_s _a_t _R_A_D_C, Rome Air
     Development Center, Rome, NY.  1978.


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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.


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Subject: How do I get in touch with the SEI?
Date:  8 Apr 1995

Try their Web server at 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:  [e-mail]
    Phone:  [phone]
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: [phone]

    Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
    ATTN: FDRA Cameron Station
    Alexandria, VA 22304-6145
    Telephone: [phone]

    Research Access Inc. (RAI)
    3400 Forbes Avenue
    Suite 302
    Pittsburgh, PA 15213
    Telephone: [phone]
    FAX: [phone]


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Subject: What is the SEI maturity model?
Date: 31 Jan 1992
Originally-From: [e-mail] (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.


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Subject: Where can I get information on API?
Date:  8 Apr 1995

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 using the World-Wide Web via URL
http://nemo.ncsl.nist.gov/app-ose/, or send mail to mail-
[e-mail] 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.


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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 _S_o_f_t_w_a_r_e
       _T_e_s_t_i_n_g _T_e_c_h_n_i_q_u_e_s 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.


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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: [phone]
    Fax:   [phone]
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: [phone]
    FAX:   [phone]

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 [e-mail] 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.
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Last-Modified:  8 Apr 1995
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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 [e-mail] (David Alex Lamb).


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Subject: ECMA Reference Model
Date: 12 May 1992
Originally collected by: [e-mail] (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: [phone]
    Fax: [phone]
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
[e-mail] 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.

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Subject: Other sources of information
Date:  8 Apr 1995

Brad Myers ([e-mail]) maintains a list of user interface software
tools (available using the World-Wide Web via URL
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/bam/www/toolnames.html), which are
tools that can help to create the user interface part of the software.

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  [e-mail]

[edsr!bigdaddy![e-mail] (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.
([e-mail])

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Subject: Configuration management and problem tracking tools
Date:  8 Apr 1995

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/).

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Subject: CASE tools for object-oriented design and analysis
Date: 30 Mar 1995
Originally collected by: [e-mail] (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.  - [[e-mail] (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: [e-mail]
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.  - [[e-mail]
(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: [e-mail].  To fetch from simtel-20
(via mail in uuencoded format):
         Send e-mail to [e-mail], set the subject string to
         SIMTEL20-request. The message body should be:
              /PDGET MAIL PD1:<msdos.windows3>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 as 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 Support Environment by Objectory (see vendor list).
An object-oriented analysis and design tool for large teams. Supports analysis
and design activities according to Jacobson`s use case driven development
approach (Object-Oriented Software Engineering - A use case driven approach, by
Jacobson et al, published by Addison-Wesley 1992.). Team support through
central repository, and can also be integrated with Configuration Management
tools. Generates C++, Smalltalk, Corba/IDL and more. Available for Windows,
Windows NT, OS/2, SunOS, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX.

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).  - [[e-mail] (Joel
Riedesel)]

Object Domain by Dirk Vermeersch (see vendor list).
A shareware object-oriented analysis and design CASE tool for Windows 3.1.  It
is a full implementation of the Booch notation (from Object Oriented Analysis
and Design with applications, second edition. by Grady Booch).  All six
diagrams (class, object, module, state, process, and interaction) can be
entered in this tool.  C++ stubs and module hierarchy can be generated from the
diagrams.  Available via anonymous FTP to site oak.oakland.edu as
/SimTel/win3/pgmtools/domain.zip

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Subject: CASE tools for educational use
Date:  7 Nov 1994
Originally collected by: [e-mail] (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![e-mail] (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 [e-mail] (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 <[e-mail]>]

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
<[e-mail]>]

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.

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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 [e-mail] (David
Alex Lamb).


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Subject: Textbooks
Date: 22 Oct 1994
Originally collected by: [e-mail] (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.
    [e-mail]: 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).
    [e-mail]: Like #1, had the best explanations of what
      I want to cover (different engineering lifecycles, methods, and tools).
    [e-mail] (Robb Swanson): The definitive book on the subject as far
      as I'm concerned.
    [e-mail] (Michelle Johnson): A good text book as well as
      reference.
3.  Software Systems Engineering by Andrew Sage and James D. Palmer.
    [e-mail]: 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
    [e-mail]: 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.
    [e-mail] (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.
    [e-mail]: 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.
    [e-mail] (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
    [e-mail]: 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
    [e-mail]: 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
    [e-mail]: 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.
    [e-mail] (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).
    [e-mail] (Eoin Woods):
11. Fundamentals of Computing for Software Engineers by Eric S. Chan & Murat M.
    Tanik, Van Nostrand Reinhold.
    [e-mail] (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.

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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, [phone]
   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: [phone]; Toll Free: (800) 942-SOFT; FAX:
         [phone]; E-MAIL: [e-mail].

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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
    [phone]
    FAX [phone]
    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 [e-mail]

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Subject: General reading for software engineers
Date: 11 Oct 1991
Originally collected by: [e-mail] (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

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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.

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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 [e-mail].
   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: [phone]
   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.

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Subject: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
Date: 26 Mar 1993
Originally collected by: [e-mail] (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.

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Subject: Programming Style
Date: 19 Sep 1991
Originally collected by: [e-mail] (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.

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Subject: Real-Time Systems
Date: 22 Oct 1994
Originally collected by: [e-mail] (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

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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, [e-mail]).
   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

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Subject: Software Process
Date: 25 Oct 1994
Originally collected by: [e-mail] (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.

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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)

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Subject: User Interfaces
Date: 25 Oct 1994
Originally collected by: [e-mail] (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 as
/pub/hcibib, or email requests can be sent to:
     [e-mail]

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 as /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
([e-mail]) 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.
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This is a list of contact information for CASE tool vendors, originally
compiled by Scott Marcus <[e-mail]> and/or Theo Heavey
<[e-mail]>, 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 [e-mail].

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: [phone]
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: [phone]
Advanced Software Technologies, Inc.
   Graphical Designer
   7800 S. Elati Street, Suite 300, Littleton, CO 80120-4456; 303-730-7981;
      FAX: [phone]; [e-mail]
Advanced System Technologies Inc.
   QASE (information systems development environment)
   12200 E. Briarwood Ave., Suite 260; Englewood, Colorado 80112 Fax: (303)
      790-2816; Tel: [phone]
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: [phone]
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: [phone];
      FAX:  [phone]
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. [phone]; [e-mail]
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: [phone]; [e-mail]
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
      [e-mail]
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: [phone]
      fax: [phone]
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: [phone] 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; [phone]; FAX +33
      50420914; [e-mail]
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.  (see http://www.digital.com/)
   COHESIONworX, COHESION Team/SEE, COHESION ASD/SEE, DEC FUSE, DECset (see
      index at http://www.digital.com/info/key-case-tools-index.html)
   USA: DECdirect; Continental Blvd.; Merrimack, NH 03054; 1-800-DIGITAL;
      [e-mail] (see DECdirect home page at
      http://www.service.digital.com/ddi/html/ddhome.html)
   Other countries: See contacts list at
      http://www.digital.com/info/misc/contacts.txt.html
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: [phone] fax:
      [phone]; e-mail: [e-mail]
Digital Tools Inc.
   AutoPLAN (project scheduling tool)
   18900 Stevens Creek Blvd.; Cupertino, California 95014; phone: [phone];
      fax:   [phone]
ECS Associates
   SQL-Link-Plus
   3812 Sepulveda Blvd.; Torrance, CA 90505; 213-378-9260
Eslog Genie logiciel
   Andromede (IPSE (incl. CMS - Tools Mngt - Architecture Mngt))
   4bis BuroSpace; 91571 BIEVRES Cedex; Tel: [phone]; Fax: (33-1)
      69-85-50-18; [e-mail]
EVB Software Engineering, Inc.
   Paradigm Plus / EVB Edition (OOA/OOD CASE Tool (Unix and DOS));
      HeragrapH (Ada 2D/3D Graphics and GUI toolkit (Unix/X windows and DOS));
      GRACE (Reusable Ada Software Components); RLT (Reuse Library Toolset
      (Unix and DOS)); Ada, Object Oriented Development and Software
      Engineering Training;
   5303 Spectrum Drive,; Frederick, MD 21701; VOICE 301-695-6960 FAX
      301-695-7734; [e-mail]
Evergreen CASE Tools
   EasyCASE (shareware), EasyCASE plus (commercial)
   11025 164th Ave NE; Redmond WA 98052; 206-881-5149
Excel Software
   MacAnalyst/MacDesigner (Analysis, Design & Reengineering) (see
      http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-
      Engineering/blurb/MacAnalyst.html)
   P.O. Box 1414, Marshalltown, IA 50158  USA; ph. 515-752-5359;  fax
      515-752-2435; [e-mail]
Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI)
   STONE
   Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14,; D-7500 Karlsruhe, Germany; [phone]
IBM
   CMVC (Configuration Management Version Control) (see
      http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-Engineering/blurb/cmvc)
ICONIX Software Engineering Inc.
   PowerTools Series (front end, back end, RE/M)
   2800 28th St, Suite 320; Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-458-0092; FAX
      310-396-3454
i-Logix
   StateMate
   22 Third Ave.; Burlington, MA 01803; 617-272-8090
Index Technology Corp. (merged with Sage to form Intersolv)
Insoft Ky
   Prosa
   P.O.Box 9; SF-90101 Oulu; Finland; tel. [phone]; fax. [phone]
Institute for Information Industry
   KangaTool Series (front-end)
   8th Floor, 106 Ho-Ping E. Rd.; Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Institute of Applied Computer Science (IFAD)
   VDM-SL Toolbox (see http://www.ifad.dk/products/toolbox.html), VDM-to-C++
      Code Generator (see http://www.ifad.dk/products/codegen.html)
   Forskerparken 10, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark; Phone: [phone]; Fax:
      [phone]; Email: [e-mail]
Interactive Software Engineering (see http://www.eiffel.com/)
   EiffelCase
   270 Storke Road #7; Goleta, CA USA 93117; 805/685-1006; [e-mail]
Intasoft
   SMS (configuration management)
   153 Sweetbrier Lane; Exeter EX1 3DG; England
Integrated Systems, Inc.
   AutoCode, MATRIXx/Systembuild
   3260 Jay Street; Santa Clara, CA  95054-3309; [phone]
IntelliBase nv/sa
   RIDL* (I-CASE for Nijssen's Information Analysis Method)
   Plantin en Moretuslei 220; B-2018 Antwerp; BELGIUM; tel. [phone]
      fax. [phone]
Interactive Development Environments
   Software through Pictures (front end), C Development Environment
   595 Market St., 10th Floor; San Francisco, CA 94105; 415-543-0900;
      [e-mail]
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: [phone]
IPSYS Software Plc
   ToolBuilder
   Marlborough Court,; Pickford Street,; MACCLESFIELD, Cheshire, SK11 6JD
      United Kingdon; Tel: [phone]; E-mail: [e-mail]
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 [e-mail])
   LDRA Technology Inc.: 3000-3 Hartley Road, Jacksonville, FL 32257, USA; 904
      268 3267; Fax: [phone].
   Program Analysers Ltd,: 56a Northbrook Street, Newbury, Berks, RG13 1AN, UK;
      0635 528828; Fax: [phone].
   LDRA Technologie S.A.: Off Shore Voie No1, BP17 Batiment Stratege, 31312
      Labege, Cedex, France; 33 61 39 77 77; Fax: [phone].
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: [phone]
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; [phone]
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); [e-mail]
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: [phone]
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 (see http://www.jsp.fi/metacase)
   MetaEdit (supports most methods)
   P.O. Box 449; FIN-40101 Jyvaskyla, Finland; tel. & fax. [phone]
Micro Focus, Inc.
   COBOL/2 Workbench
   2465 East Bayshore Rd.; Palo Alto, CA 94303; 415-856-4161
Mortice Kern Systems (see http://www.mks.com)
   MKS Toolkit (for DOS/Windows, OS/2, Windows NT 3.1 and up); MKS Source
      Integrity; formerly RCS (for DOS, OS/2, Windows, Windows NT, and UNIX)
   Customer Service; Mortice Kern Systems Inc.; 185 Columbia Street West;
      Waterloo, Ontario  N2L 5Z5; Contact name: Virginia Jamieson;
      [phone]; FAX [phone]; [e-mail]
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 [phone]
      (voice); [phone] (fax)
ObjecTime Ltd.
   ObjecTime (real-time object-oriented) (see
      http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-Engineering/blurb/objectime)
   ObjecTime Limited,; 340 March Road, Suite 200, Kanata, Ontario, Canada
      K2K 2E4; telephone: [phone]-TIME; [phone]; fax: [phone];
      internet:  [e-mail]
Objectory
   Objectory Support Environment
   email: [e-mail]
   Objectory Corp; 300 Atlantic Street, Suite 1111; Stamford, CT 06901; Voice:
      [phone]; Fax: [phone]
   Objectory AB; PO Box 1128; S-164 22 Kista; Sweden; Voice: [phone];
      Fax: [phone]
   Objectory Gmbh; WeltenborgerStrasse 70; D-816 77 Munich; Germany; Voice: +49
      89 92 404 222; Fax: [phone]
   PO Box 1128; S-116 24 Kista; Sweden; Fax [phone]; Tel [phone]
      84;  Email: [e-mail]
On-Line Software International
   AD/VANCE DataModeler
   2 Executive Dr.; Ft. Lee Executive Park; Ft. Lee, NJ 07024; 201-592-0009
Optima, Inc.
   DesignVision 1.7, DesignMachine 2.0 (front end, back end)
Oracle Systems Corp.
   CASE*Designer, CASE*Dictionary, CASE*Generator, SQL*Forms, SQL*Report,
      SQL*QMX, Oracle, SQL*Louder
   Oracle World Headquarters; 500 Oracle Pkwy; Redwood Shores, CA 94065
      415-506-7000
   ORACLE Corporation; 20 Davis Drive; Belmont, CA 94002; 800-345-DBMS
Pansophic Systems Inc.
   Telon
   2400 Cabot Drive; Lisle, IL 60532; 312-505-6000; 800-323-7335
ParcPlace Systmems (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-
      Engineering/blurb/parcplace)
   Objectworks\C++, Objectworks\Smalltalk (back-end)
   Corporate HQ: 999 E. Arques; Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4593; Tel: [phone]
      Fax: [phone]; Email:  [e-mail]
Performance Awareness Corp.
   preVue, preVue-X, XStudio
   8521 Six Forks Rd., Suite 200; Raleigh, NC 27615, USA; Phone: [phone]
      e-mail: [e-mail]
Phoenix Technologies, Ltd.
   P-Source, P-Tools
   846 University Ave.; Norwood, MA 02062; 617-551-4000
Popkin Software & Systems
   System Architect
   111 Prospect St., Suite 505; Stamford, CT 06901; 203-323-3434
   11 Park Place, NY, NY 10007; tel. [phone]; fax. [phone]
Prescient Software, Inc.
   Merge Ahead
   3494 Yuba Avenue; San Jose, CA 95117-2967; E-mail: [e-mail] tel:
      408-985-1824; fax: [phone]
PROCASE Corporation
   SMARTsystem, C/Spot/Run
   2694 Orchard Parkway; San Jose, CA 95134; fax. [phone] tel. (408)
      433-9500; customer support: 800-777-4776
ProMod, Inc.
   ProMod Series (front end, back end, RE/M)
   23685 Birtcher Dr.; El Toro, CA 92630; 714-855-3046; 800-255-2689
ProtoSoft, Inc.
   Paradigm Plus
   17629 El Camino Real Suite 202, Houston TX 77058; 713-480-3233 FAX
      713-480-6606
QualTrak Corporation
   DDTS (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-Engineering/blurb/DDTS)
   3160 De La Cruz, Suite 206, Santa Clara, California, 95054; 408-748-9500;
      FAX [phone]; (product information: [e-mail])
Rational (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-
      Engineering/blurb/rational)
   Rational Environment (integrated interactive software engineering
      environment for Ada), Rational Rose (object-oriented analysis and design
      tool)
   3320 Scott Blvd; Santa Clara, CA 95054; 1-800-767-3237; [phone] (ask
      for Terri Baxter)
Ready Systems Corp.
   CardTools
   470 Potrero Ave.; P.O. Box 60217; Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Reasoning Systems Inc.
   category: reverse engineering, re-engineering
   3260 Hillview Ave.; Palo Alto, CA 94304; 415-494-6201 (voice) 415-494-8053
      (FAX); [e-mail]
SACO Software and Consulting GmbH
   CONQUEST CASE tools (RTM)
   SACO GmbH, Heckenweg 28, 97289 Thuengen, GERMANY; E-Mail:[e-mail],
      FAX: ++49 9360 5348
Sage Software Inc. (merged with Index to form Intersolv)
Sapiens International
   Perfect, Object-Modeller, Sapiens, Quix, Vision
   Sapiens USA; P.O. Box 4349, Cary, NC, 27519-4349; 1-800-858-9473
Schemacode International Inc
   Schemacode, Datrix
   89 Gleenbrooke, suite 100; Dollard des Ormeaux, Quebec H9A 2L7 514-683-8693;
      fax [phone]; e-mail: [e-mail]
SDP Technologies, Inc.
   S-Designor
   One Westbrook Corporate Center, Suite 805, Westchester, IL 60154, USA;
      Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; e-mail:
      [e-mail]
SETT, Inc.
   GRAMMI (Ada X window GUI builder)
   5303 Spectrum Drive,; Frederick, MD 21701; [phone]; [e-mail]
Sextant, Incorporated (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-
      Engineering/blurb/sextant)
   Sextant for C (programming environment for C)
   3881 Sparrow Wood, Ann Arbor, MI 48108; 313-677-0952; [e-mail]
Six Sigma Case
   Canonizer
   13456 SE 27th Place; Bellevue, WA 98005; 206-643-6911
Softlab, Inc.
   Maestro (front end, back end, RE/M)
   1000 Abernathy Road, Suite 1000, Atlanta GA 30328-5613 Tel: [phone],
      Fax: [phone]
Softool Corporation
   CCC (configuration management)
   340 South Kellogg Ave., Goleta, CA 93117; 805-683-5777
Software AG of North America, Inc.
   Adabas, Natural, Construct, Predict, Predict Case, Super Natural
   11190 Sunrise Valley Drive; Reston, VA 22091; 703-860-5050
Software Architecture and Engineering (now Template Software)
Software Emancipation Technology, Inc.
   ParaSET (software engineering environment) (see
      http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-Engineering/blurb/ParaSET)
   245 Winter Street; Waltham, MA 02154-8709; [phone];
      1-800-372-7273; [phone] (FAX); [e-mail]
Software Productivity Research, Inc.
   Checkpoint, SPQR/20 (estimation, measurement, front end)
   77 South Bedford St.; Burlington, MA 01803; 617-273-0140
Software Research, Inc.
   Software TestWorks (STW); STW/Regression (CAPBAK/X, SMARTS, EXDIFF);
      STW/Coverage (TCAT, S-TCAT, TCAT-PATH, T-SCOPE); STW/Advisor (METRIC,
      STATIC, TDGEN)
   625 Third Street; San Francisco, CA 94107-1997 USA; [phone];
      1-800-942-SOFT; FAX: [phone]; [e-mail]
SQL Software, Ltd.
   Product Configuration Mangement System (PCMS)
   Harlow, United Kingdom; 44-279-641-021
StarSys, Inc.
   MacBubbles (front end)
   11113 Norlec Dr.; Silver Spring, MD 20902; 301-946-0522
StructSoft, Inc.
   TurboCASE 3.0 (front end (for the Mac))
   5416 156th Ave. SE; Bellevue, WA 98006; tel: [phone]; fax: [phone]
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.)
TeamOne Systems Inc,
   TeamNet (Configuration Management)
   2700 Augustine Drive; Santa Clara, CA 95054; 800-442-6650
   [Aug 1992 e-mail gave address: 710 Lakeway Drive, Suit 100;  Sunnyvale, CA
      94086; Tel: [phone]]
TeleLOGIC Malmoe AB (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-
      Engineering/blurb/telelogic)
   SDT - The SDL Design Tool
   Kungsgatan 6; Box 4128; S-203 12 Malmoe; Sweden; Tel. [phone] FAX:
      [phone]; E-Mail: [e-mail]
   US and Canadian distributor: Anonymix inc.; 50 University Ave.  Los Gatos,
      CA 95030; Phone: [phone]; Fax:   [phone]
   German distributor: S&P Media; Gadderbaumerstr. 19; D-33602 Bielefeld,
      Germany: Tel. [phone], Fax: [phone]; [e-mail]-
      media.de, [e-mail]
Template Software, Inc.
   SNAP - Strategic Networked Application Platform
   13100 Worldgate Drive, Suite 340, Herndon, VA 22070-4382
Texas Instruments Inc.
   Information Engineering Facility (IEF) 5.3
   6550 Chase Oaks Blvd.; Plano, TX 75023
   Local Address: 2950 N.W. 62nd St. Suite 100; Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33309
      800-527-3500
TGS Systems
   Prograph (visual o-o programming environment)
   Suite 200, 2745 Dutch Village Road; Halifax, Nova Scotia  B3L  4G7; Canada;
      902/455-4446; FAX:  [phone]; [e-mail]
Tom Sawyer Software
   Graph Layout Toolkit (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-
      Engineering/blurb/TomSawyer)
   1824B Fourth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710; 510.848.0853; fax: [phone];
      [e-mail]
Tom Software
   Application Xcellence
   127 SW 156th Street; Seattle, WA 98166; 206-246-7022
Tower Concepts, Inc.
   RAZOR (issue tracking, configuration management) (see
      http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-Engineering/blurb/RAZOR)
   103 Sylvan Way; New Hartford, NY  13413; [phone];  [e-mail],
      [e-mail], [e-mail]
Unirel
   Unirel Openlook Toolkit
   Centro Commerciale Osmannoro; Via Volturno, 12; 50019 Sesto Fiorentino,
      Italy; [phone] (voice); [phone] (fax)
Unisys Corp.
   Linc Design Assistant, Linc, Mapper, DMS II
   P.O. Box 500; Bluebell, PA 19424; 215-986-4011
Vantive Corporation
   Vantive Quality (problem-tracking) (see
      http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-Engineering/blurb/Vantive.html)
   1890 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043; Tel. [phone]; Fax:
      [phone]
Verilog S.A
   150, rue Nicolas-Vauquelin; 31081 Toulouse Cedex-France; Tel:[phone];
      Fax:[phone]; Telex: VERILOG532288F
   VERILOG USA Inc.; Beauregard Square; #340 6303 Little River Turnpike;
      Alexandria, VA  222312; TEL: [phone]
Vermeersch, Dirk
   Object Domain (shareware, for Windows 3.1)
   Dirk Vermeersch; 1397 Ridgewood Drive; San Jose CA 95118; [e-mail]
ViaSoft, Inc.
   Via/Insight, Via/SmarTest
   3033 North 44th St., Suite 280; Phoenix, AZ 85018; 602-952-0050
Virtual Software Factory Ltd.  (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-
      Engineering/blurb/VSF.html)
   VSF (Virtual Software Factory), Recycle-SF, BIf (Business Integration
      Facility), SSADM4-SF, Texel-SF
   Crest House, Castleman Business Centre, Ringwood, Hants. BH24 1EU, United
      Kingdom;  Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone];
      [e-mail]
Visible Systems Corp.
   Visible Analyst Workbench (front end)
   950 Winter St.; Waltham, MA 02154; 617-969-4100
Vista Technologies, Inc.  (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-
      Engineering/blurb/vista)
   PCTE Workbench, HyperWeb (Hypermedia-based software development
      environments)
   1100 Woodfield Road, suite 108; Schaumburg, IL  60173-5121  USA 708 706-9300
      (voice); 708 706-9317 (fax)
Visual Software, Inc.
   vsDesigner, vsSQL, vsObject Maker (front end)
   3945 Freedom Circle, Suite 540; Santa Clara, CA 95054; 408-988-7575
Westmount Technology B.V.  (see http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-
      Engineering/blurb/Westmount.html)
   Westmount I-CASE for Yourdon, Ward/Mellor, OMT, SSADM (full life-cycle)
   Westmount USA Inc.; 111 Anza Blvd., Suite 300; Burlingame, CA 94010; U.S.A.;
      Tel. [phone]; Fax: [phone]
   Olof Palmestraat 24, P.O.Box 5063, 2600 GB  DELFT, The Netherlands; Tel.
      (+31) (0)15 - 141212; Fax. (+31) (0)15 - 120267; email [e-mail]
XA Systems Corporation
   PATHVU, RETROFIT (RE/M)
   983 University Avenue; Los Gatos, CA 95030; 800-344-9223 (U.S.)
      800-344-9224 (Canada)
York Software Engineering Ltd.
   Personal-SELECT, Project-SELECT (front end), CADiZ (Computer Aided Desigin
      in Z), ACE (ADA Compiler Environment)
   University of York; York, England YO1 5DD; tel: [phone] fax: +44
      (0)904 433744
Yourdon, Inc.
   Analyst/Designer Toolkit, Cradle (front end)
   1501 Broadway; New York, NY 10036;
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