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Vanteon - Providing outsourced Windows software design, development, quality assurance and testing services and solutions.

International Function Point User Group - A non-profit organization promoting the use of function point analysis and other software metrics.

Object-Oriented Project Size Estimator - Provides information on the Oopsize system for estimating the time required to develop an object oriented project.

Auspice, Inc. - Offers TLX, a tool for integrating and controlling multiple diverse applications.

Software Engineering Archives - World-Wide Web archives for USENET newsgroup comp.software-eng.

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) - SEI is a federal research center whose mission is to advance the state of the practice of software engineering to improve the quality of systems that depend on software. SEI accomplishes this mission by promoting the evolution of software engineering from an ad hoc, labor-intensive activity to a discipline that is well managed and supported by technology.

microTOOL - Develops and support tools for software engineering, process control, version and configuration management.

Software Research, Inc. - Improve customer delivered software quality through research, design, and implementation of the world's best tools for software testing and quality assurance, functional testing, requirements testing, coverage analysis, regression testing, WebSite testing, embedded system testing, with full support for Java, C, C++, COBOL, Ada, Fortran.

Software Productivity Research - Software process management articles, tools, and consulting, led by Capers Jones.

Software Build and Fix: Tips - Some tips to help programmers produce quality code.

Software Development Resources - Whole variety of resources courtesy of Construx Software Builders Inc.

Simulation and Modelling Software from Germany - Specializing in Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS), High Level Architekture (HLA), Space and Aviation.

Dr Patch - Your total patch solution - Dr Patch Limited provide a solution that will answer all your software updating needs. With the combination of daily email, The Ultimate Patch Collection and the Patch Private Eye, we will solve your patch requirements. For less than one person hour per month, we can add the professional edge to your software support needs.

Department for CASE Tools - Part of the Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences, this is a research and development organization focusing on Computer-Aided Software Engineering. Particular areas of interest are formal language processing, including compilers, development environments, visualization tools, reverse engineering, verification, repositories and Web portals.

GTD systems and software engineering - Systems engineering high-tech company leader in space, defence, science, and energy.

David Consulting Group - DCG services include software metrics (including function point analysis), software process improvement and outsourcing.

Requirements, Design, and Traceability - A Microsoft Windows based tool for system requirements management.

Newman & Spurr Consultancy Ltd - A software engineering company based in Camberley, Surrey, specialising in simulations, mathematical modelling, wargames, operational analysis, graphical interfaces and database design.

IDEMCOP Project - Information about the Estelle language and methodology used in developing software based on communicating components.

PowerStructure - COBOL flowcharting and analysis tool. - COBOL flowcharting and analysis tools. Generate COBOL flowchart / COBOL structure chart of your ANSI COBOL source automatically with PowerStructure. Get an intuitive feel for COBOL program logic nearly instantly.

MR Control Ltd - Independent systems integrator providing custom built control systems, bespoke software, training and technical support.

Henley Software - Complete bespoke software solution. From producing the original specifications, through development and implementation to training and support, we can manage your entire project.

Hendrickson Components - Microsoft DNA software architects, software engineering, and development.

Teoco Corporation - Provides practical solutions for complex distributed information systems in such diverse industries as telecommunications, energy, and financial services. We specialize in the areas of software engineering, systems engineering, application systems development, Internet technologies, database solutions, network solutions, and systems integration.

Critical Software - Develops and markets software products for business and mission critical information systems, and provide consulting and engineering services for enterprises.

Cool:GEN Email List and Resource Page - This site is the home of the (un)official Cool:GEN mailing list. Topics include CBD, action diagraming, how-to, etc.

Advanced Recognition Technologies - ART has become a world leader in providing innovative ways to improve the Human User Interface (HUI) for telephones, computers and other electronic devices.

DES Software Engineering Consulting - Provides consulting in algorithm development, software engineering, and system architecture.

Software Architecture, Architects and Architecting - Provides resources for software architects, answers such questions as "what is software architecture" and "why is it important", and covers the architecting process and role of the architect.

Imagix Corporation - Provides software to aid in reverse engineering, program understanding, and code comprehension as well as documentation tools for legacy and complex C and C++ software systems.

RAISE - Describes a language, method and tools known as the Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering.

Analyst Pro - A tool for systems analysts and software engineers to manage software requirements and test cases throughout the system life cycle.

TheDevShop - Offers tools and add-ons to enhance the Cool:Gen development environment.

Netron Incorporated - Offers products and services to help accelerate e-business implementation through legacy renewal and reengineering.

PERA Enterprise Integration Web Site - Contains information on the PERA Enterprise Model including planning, reference architecture and project execution principles.

CASE Tool Index - An index of computer aided software engineering tools.

RenaissanceWeb - A resource for the software reengineering community, also including topics such as software maintenance, software evolution, reverse engineering, software understanding and BPR.

Hanson Corporation - Provides process management and cost estimating tools, including Cost Xpert 2.0; a free monthly journal, software development services, and Delphi consulting.

Telelogic - Supplier of tools for analysis, design and testing of real-time applications.

Software Quality Institute (SQI) - UT Austin, Organization for Software Engineering Professionals, Conferences, Seminars, Certification Programs, MSEE Degree Program, Sponsorship of Conference

Methodology.org - A comprehensive site providing systems, application development, and object oriented methodology information. Includes CASE tools, UML papers, and summary methodologies for software engineering.

Omni-Vista, Inc. - Provides tools and training for software product planning, software project management, and requirements management.

Software Carpentry - The aim of the Software Carpentry project is to create a new generation of easy-to-use software engineering tools, and to document both those tools and the working practices they are meant to support.

Amarco - A CASE tool which uses a service oriented method along three axes: service, structure, and behavior/activity. Integrates the Visio drawing tool and a internal repository.

Automated Testing Specialists - Assists companies in implementing automated software testing solutions. Site contains useful information on the subject of automated software testing and software quality assurance.

McCabe and Associates - Offers a suite of tools and methodology that assist software developers with quality assurance, testing, reengineering and Year 2000 efforts.

Testing Smalltalk Applications - Information, slides, and position papers from this 1995 OOPSLA workshop.

Software Quality Assurance Resources - Tools, publications, companies, etc. in software quality assurance and software testing area.

SQE - Software Quality Engineering provides information training and support to help you achieve greater software quality.

Mozilla Quality Assurance - A network of countless volunteers from the net community and several dozen Netscape employees. We typically find bugs by discovering the ways in which the Mozilla client software's actual behavior deviates from the expected behavior, as determined by specifications from the W3C, IETF, Netscape, and other such organizations.

Software QA Test Resource Center - Software QA and Testing Frequently-Asked-Questions, Software QA and Testing Resources, Software QA and Testing Bookstore.

QACity - Organized resources for busy testers.

Software Productivity Centre - Offers training and consulting in software quality control and assurance.

Quality Search - Provides placement services to software quality assurance and release engineering professionals in New England.

TelSoft Incorporated - A full-service software quality assurance and testing firm that assists educational and commercial publishing companies with their testing efforts. Windows and Macintosh platforms as well as networks.

Training Workshop - This workshop promotes today's modern collaboration approach to software quality assurance (SQA) as oppose to the technical focus of testing.

Software Quality Assurance - Specializes in software quality assurance systems for small to medium size organizations.

QA Jobs Network - Online quality assurance jobs and resumes. Find consultants and fulltime QA jobs or professionals. QA testers, engineers, managers or directors.

Original Software - Testing and Prototyping solutions, specifically for the AS/400.

Complexity Management Chronicles - Selected articles from a quarterly print newsletter on software development and testing, quality assurance, damage control, risk assessment and management.

SQAtester.com - Online software testing and resource center. Software quality assurance testers community and portal.

Bay QA Recruiting - Silicon Valley - Locate senior software QA engineers and QA managers for permanent jobs with web and Internet software companies in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area.

iSixSigma Quality and Management Resources - Includes articles, tools and resources for successfully implementing software Quality Assurance within one's business.

Towards Software Excellence - Community of best practice for software SMEs, revolving around a self-check tool, leading to a routemap of guidance.

ProcessVelocity - ProcessVelocity is a leading provider of process and technology management services. We are a SEI Transition Partner and provider of SEI CMM and CMMI training, consulting, and assessment services.

QAForums.com, software testing quality assurance discussions board - Software Testing & Quality Assurance forums. Helpdesk for automated, performance testing and bug tracking. Software testing forums covering software testing tools like WinRunner, LoadRunner, and SilkTest. Quality control and configuration management topics.

Radon Quality Assurance Programs - Quality Systems Innovations provides QA programs and training for ISO 9000 compliance to small businesses in radon detection and mitigation

Software Testing & Quality Engineering Magazine - Software Testing & Quality Engineering magazine helps software managers, testers and QA staff develop and deliver better software.

Software Testing QA Links Directory - Portal - Submit a site to the online quality assurance and software testing links directory. Many categories related to quality assurance and engineering. Links, books, training, and jobs.

Power Software - Krakatau & VisualizeIt - Tools to aid software development by calculating software metrics and showing relationships within your systems source code to help with code comprehension, reverse engineering, program understanding and source documentation.

Intellitest - Software Testing and Training - San Francisco based software testing firm specializing in quality assurance and computer training.

Quality Assurance Direct, Inc., Quality test services - Specializing in providing leading edge software quality assurance solutions to meet the demands of the corporate IT markets

StickyMinds.com - StickyMinds is the information place for software test, management, and quality assurance professionals. Articles, papers, links, books, tools, forum.

QAI (India) Ltd. - Welcome to the Quality Assurance Institute (India) Ltd. website - facilitating India's global leadership in software by focussing on the triad of people, process and technology

SoftHawkWay Ltd. as a QA data integrator - Collection of small but very powerful SQA tools and different QA web sites of interest.

QA Downloads Directory - Submit your resources and evaluation tools to the online Quality Assurance & Software Testing Downloads directory. Many free downloadable code libraries and test tools.

The Linux Quality Database - The purpose is twofold - to develop a rich and powerful bug database that will allow regular users to easily and meaningfully participate in quality assurance of the Linux kernel, and to provide advocacy and resources to promote better quality among Free Software in general.

Software Quality Associates Inc.- Software QA staffing - offers full-service professionalism exclusively to the software quality assurance discipline providing software QA engineers, software testers and project managers.

Software Dioxide: The Ecosystem for Software - Software Dioxide (SwO2) offers Software Engineering & Management professionals the infrastructure to meet, trade, learn, share, exchange, buy and sell. It creates synergies of knowledge, network, people and technology to enhance professional growth within the software community.

Quality Assurance Associates - In addition to quality assurance software testing, Quality Assurance Associates offers automation, load, functional, server performance, and usability testing.

Centercode, Inc. - Centercodeis a leading developer of scalable software and service solutions that enable companies to manage and conduct beta test projects.

iQAPortal.com - Canada's online community for QA's and Software Testers. Site provides information on Jobs, Events, Links, and Forums.

Quality Assurance Special Interest Group - The WSA Quality Assurance Special Interest Group was created to engage members of the high-tech community in discussions on the evolving challenges of software quality assurance and software testing and look at ways to advance the leading methodologies and best practices.

The Interface Design Group - Usability design and testing training by an industry expert.

Atlanta Quality Assurance Association - AQAA is organized to share state-of-the-art Quality Assurance methods, tools and techniques among its members. Our membership is composed of professionals working primarily in the information systems industry.

CMMI Downloads - Downloads include tools and templates such as the CMMI Help File v1.1 for Staged and Continuous models (SE/SW, IPPD, and SS).

(SDT) Software Development Technologies, Third Generation Test Automation Tools - Software Testing: SDT's Third Generation test automation tools improves ROI with fewer technical testers. Test design and automation solutions; Reviews and Inspections solutions.

GlobalTester - Open Content Information for the Software Tester - GlobalTester is a general reference site with a variety of topics relative to the discipline of testing and overall quality assurance.

Houston Software Quality Association - HSQA is a community to promote quality practices in all areas of software development.

Yourdon, Ed - The author of a large number of books on software engineering and related topics.

McConnell, Steve - Steve is the author of Code Complete, Rapid Development and Project Survival Guide. Site includes articles and reading lists.

Weinberg, Gerald M. (Jerry) - Contains a full description of the services offered by Weinberg's firm. Weinberg was the leading pioneer in recognizing that software development is something done by human beings and the implications of that.

Brooks, Jr., Frederick P. - Author of "No Silver Bullet", one of the classics of Software Engineering.

DeMarco, Tom - Tom has made great contributions to software engineerng with his books and consulting.

Basili, Victor R. - A member of the Experimental Software Engineering Group at the University of Maryland.

Vescoukis, Vassilios - Offers publications, books, research projects, presentations and course material on software engineering.

Parnas, David - Research in software engineering, documentation, and tables.

Raymond, Eric S - Everything about the Internet projects of Eric S. Raymond, author of the "Cathedral and the Bazaar" and other writings about open software.

Shaw, Mary - Alan J. Perlis Professor of Computer Science, Associate Dean for Professional Programs at CMU.

Neumann, Peter - Research interests include security, reliability, software engineering, and related fields. Moderates the online Risks Forum.

Liu, Jay - Proprietor of the JLDN software and information service, and student at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Reflections, favorite quotes, resume in PDF format.

Book Review: Software Engineering with Java - This is a review of "Software Engineering with Java", written by Stephen Schach, reviewed by A. O'Riordan, from ACM Crossroads Winter 1999 issue.

Recommended Programming and SE books - A brief list of recommendations for books about programming and software engineering.

Ada and Software Engineering - Suggested reading list, online articles and books, large collection of links to SE resources. Ada learning aids.

Software Assessment: Reliability, Safety, Testability - Description, contents, reviews, and ordering information for this book by Michael Friedman and Jeffrey Voas.

Safeware: System Safety and Computers - Book summary and chapter contents.

ICSE 99 - The 21st International Conference on Software Engineering.

ESEC/FSE 99 - Joint 7th European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and 7th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-7).

PASTE 99 - Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering.

STAREAST 2000 - Software Testing Analysis and Review Conference, May 1-5, 2000, Orlando, FL. Provides software testers and engineers with an advanced software testing forum.

TEST Congress 2000 - The European Software Testing Conference, May 8-12, 2000, London. Focuses on the future of IT and testing, growing complexity, quality of embedded software, and internet and e-commerce challenges.

Quality Week Conferences - Held in May in the SF Bay area and November in Brussels, Belgium, the Quality Week Conferences usually have two days of tutorials and a 3-day technical conference with exhibits

SM/ASM 2000 - Software Management and Applications of Software Measurement Conferences, March 6-10, 2000, San Jose, CA. Features real-world coverage of the management and measurement experiences.

ICCBSS: International Conference on COTS-Based Software System - Annual conference, sponsored by the National Research Council Canada and the SoftwareEngineering Institute.

International Conference on Software Engineering - Pointers to ICSE Conference Websites.

Software Development Online - Covers the people, products, and practices of corporate software development.

IEEE Software - IEEE Computer Society's magazine covering all aspects of software, including software engineering.

ACM Crossroads Magazine: Article Index - ACM Crossroads is the student magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery. Crossroads has published several articles about software engineering, and this is an index of them.

Human-Computer Interaction Publications - BUILD-IT is a planning tool based on computer vision technology, with a capacity for complex planning and composition tasks. The system enables users, grouped around a table, to interact in a virtual scene, using real bricks to select and manipulate objects in the scene.

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - An archival journal, published monthly, covering well-defined theoretical results and empirical studies that have potential impact on the construction, analysis, or management of software.

News @ SEI Interactive - Offers current and past articles related to the state of trends in software design and development.

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) - ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) publishes papers on all aspects of that challenge: specification, design, development and maintenance. It covers tools and methodologies, languages, data structures, and algorithms. TOSEM also reports on successful efforts, noting practical lessons that can be scaled and transferred to other projects, and often looks at applications of innovative technologies. The tone is scholarly but readable; the content is worthy of study; the presentation is effective.

Software Focus - A review magazine providing critical analysis and comment on important advances in: Software Engineering; Computer Animation; Software Maintenance; Software Testing; Visualization and Software Process Improvement.

Safe Harbor Group - Employment opportunities for Intergraph and MicroStation professionals, available for contract or direct hire nationwide.

Selectron - Technical recruitment consultancy specializing in Software and Electronics Engineers. Permanent staff from graduate to management level.

Techpros - A permanent placement firm specializing in the recruitment and placement of software professionals in the New England area.

Moss Search Ltd. - Offering programming and software engineering jobs for Java and C++ programmers nationwide and in the Chicago area.

Interface Hall of Fame - An annotated collection of effective user interface solutions worthy of praise for their creativity and concern for the needs of the user. Companion site to the Interface Hall of Shame.

Picanin - Task Oriented Software - A method and tool used to design, generate and regenerate task oriented programs.

Dr. Dobb's Journal: Design Patterns - An online publication for the professional programmer devoted to the coverage of languages, platforms, and tools.

Bob Tarr's Design Patterns - Gives an introduction to design patterns and their importance in software design.

Extreme Programming - Extreme Programming means the faster delivery of useful code and a substantial reduction in project risk. Learn how the Kiwis do it.

Andrei Alexandrescu - Homepage - Website for the book "Modern C++ Design" by Andrei Alexandrescu. Great information on Generic Programming, Templates, and other advanced C++ topics.

Humane Software - Building software that's kind to human beings - Software design and development, focused on design quality. Our Design Center is a resource for software designers everywhere.

classdep Java Package Dependency Analyzer - classdep is a tool for browsing and analyzing dependencies between Java packages to help improve the design of your software.

SmartState - Realizing State Pattern - UML State pattern modeling tool with automatic code generation in C++, C and java. No learning curve. Free download.

Whiteboard Modeling Tips and Techniques - Whiteboards are the most common modeling tool in use today. This essay explores how to model effectively on a whiteboard.

Designing and Managing Successful Projects - An overview of some simple principles to attain success designing and implementing new projects

On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules - One of the classic articles leading to modern software engineering, by D.L. Parnas.

Architecture Paradox - Two articles on Software Architecture Paradox, and how to defy that paradox to design resilient architectures.

Lessons Learned -- Current Problems - Technical and managerial best/worst practices. Based on study of US Department of Defense software projects.

The Programmers' Stone - Recapturing, exploring and celebrating the Art of Computer Programming.

The Many Dimensions of the Software Process - Explores the importance and purpose of software process and quality.

Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century - The advantages of scripting languages - typeless data, smaller code size, greater reuse, higher productivity. By TCL creator John Ousterhout.

Building bug-free O-O software: An introduction to Design by Contract (TM) - Advanced use of assertions for clearer specifications and greater software reliability. By OO guru Bertrand Meyer, creator of Eiffel.

To Hell and Back - CIOs reveal the projects that did not kill them and made them stronger.

Classic Testing Mistakes - The role of testing, Planning the complete testing effort, Personnel issues, The tester at work, Test automation, Code coverage

Classic Mistakes Enumerated - Description of 36 ineffective development practices: people-related, process-related, product-related, technology-related. (Sample chapter from Steve McConnell's book Rapid Development.)

Survival Crib Notes: NASAs Success Checklist - 9 Dos and 8 Don'ts for software project success, from NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center. (Sample chapter from Steve McConnell's book Software Project Survival Guide.)

Seven Principles Of Software Development - Emphasizes "soft" issues - attitude, approach.

Principles of Good GUI Design - Describes the basic rules for all good interfaces - the cardinal dos and don'ts.

Orphans Preferred - Characteristics of software developers - personality type, demographics, age, education, attitudes.

Successful Engineering Management: 7 Lessons Learned - People management advice for technical people.

Nine Steps to Delivering Defect-Free Software - By a software developer and consultant with over 30 years experience.

Heavy Rotation - For business software, faster-cheaper can be better too.

High-Pressure Steam Engines and Computer Software - Software safety. Parallels between the early development of high-pressure steam engines and software engineering that we can apply to the use of computers in complex systems.

The Therac-25 Accidents - Case study of a well known software error.

Essays on System Effectiveness Management - Index to articles written by members of Jerry Weinberg's SEM Group.

Seven Steps to Test Automation Success - This paper presents seven key steps: improve the testing process, define requirements, prove the concept, champion product testability, design for sustainability, plan for deployment, and face the challenges of success.

Introducing Demeter and its Laws - Adaptive Programming - specifying the connections between objects as loosely as possible. Makes programs more flexible, more resilient to change, and more adaptable to varying configurations of classes within a given domain

Community for Software Engineers - Offers various resources - including news, articles, forum and job board.

Sure It Works, But Is It Beautiful: The Relationship Between Software Aesthetics and Quality - Some aspects of the relationship between quality and aesthetics (beauty) in software, using architecture analogies.

What Do Users Want? Engineering Usability into Software - User-Centered Design. Simple approaches for delivering smaller, simpler systems that better serve the needs of users.

Large Software Systems Back to Basics - John Evans; Crosstalk, June 2000. The importance of software architecture, and related items such as unambiguous requirements and coding standards.

Ten Things Your Mother Never Told You About the Capability Maturity Model - Margaret Kulpa; Crosstalk, September 1998. Common misconceptions concerning software process improvement and the Software CMM.

Major Causes of Software Project Failures - Lorin J. May; Crosstalk, July 1998. Based on interviews with software consultants and practitioners who were asked to provide "autopsies" of failed projects with which they have been acquainted.

Software Methods and Tools - Extensive information on software development tools, along with lists of developer resources, a conference calendar, occasional organized chats, and a Developer's Toolstore.

Software Engineering Australia - An extensive directory for software engineering and related fields.

Software Engineering Resources: R. S. Pressman and Associates - A large collection of online and offline resources related to software engineering.

Software Metrics Sites - A guide to Internet resources on software measurement, process improvement and related areas. Topics featured include electronic papers, bibliographies and conferences on software measurement, Function Point Analysis and software process improvement.

Tantara: Hotlist for SPI and SQA - A link collection related to software process improvement and software quality assurance.

Computer Software and Computers - Resource for news, events, books and jobs.

Software Assurance Hotlist - A directory of sites related to software testing, reliability, and safety.

Software Systems Generator Research Group - The future of software development lies in automating rote tasks. We are exploring different ways in which software development can be automated, productivity increased, and software quality improved.

Martin Griss's HP Internal Home Page - Research areas include: object-oriented methods, process modeling, component frameworks for distributed applications, domain-specific kit/reuse technologies, and software reuse and software engineering education.

Component Applications Group - Builds applications using a library of COM components. These components provide application functionality in a reusable form.

CodeWeb: Data Mining Software Development Experience in Open Source Code - An GPL'ed tool for data mining library usage patterns in existing applications. Can be used to guide and check usage of a software library much like a tutorial. Future work includes data mining other kinds of development experience such as evolution and porting experience.

Prosperity Heights Software - Offers consulting, training, and information on domain-specific engineering, reuse-driven process improvement, and adaptable components for software product line reuse.

Composable Software Systems - We develop new models, theories, methods, languages, and tools for classifying, specifying, analyzing, and designing software systems beyond the component level. This support could lead to substantial reduction in maintenance costs, improvement in software resuse, and increase in quality of software.

Venari Project - The thrust of the Venari project at Carnegie Mellon University is addressing the problem of search, hence the name. We touch upon areas in programming and specification language design, semantics, and implementation; concurrent and distributed systems; databases and persistent objects; and software development libraries and environments.

The Reuse RKT - Search and browse listings for more than 3000 open source applications, libraries, and functions. Includes links to C and Unix programmer's FAQs and other references. Man pages link directly to source code.

KDE Reuse Patterns - Over 100 KDE applications were data mined to identify reuse patterns involving Qt/KDE classes.

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