dalamb@avi.umiacs.umd.edu (David Lamb) (03/29/91)
In article <8671@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> hare@iris.UCDavis.EDU (Joel Hare) writes: >Is there a Frequently Asked Questions for comp.software-eng? If not, can >someone give me a list of shareware CASE tools for X or pc clones? > I don't recall seeing a FAQ posting in this newsgroup. Is there one? If not, is there a need for one? I haven't seen us bogging down with repetitive questions, but availability of CASE tools does show up every so often. -- David Alex Lamb internet: dalamb@umiacs.umd.edu
dalamb@avi.umiacs.umd.edu (David Lamb) (04/17/91)
The last time someone asked about CASE tools, someone suggested it might be time to start collecting a Frequently Asked Questions message for regular (presumably monthly) postings to this group. The most recent such question prompts me to volunteer to collect answers and put together a FAQ. I'd appreciate it if those who asked about CASE tools for various platforms recently would send me the collected answers they got (suitably edited if any replies were intended to be private). I'm happy to include other Frequently Asked Questions as it becomes clear they're needed. David Alex Lamb on sabbatical at Computing and Information Science UMIACS Queen's University at Kingston University of Maryland Kingston, Ontario K7L3N6 College Park, MD 20742 Canada U.S.A dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca dalamb@umiacs.umd.edu -- David Alex Lamb internet: dalamb@umiacs.umd.edu
dalamb@umiacs.umd.edu (David Lamb) (04/20/91)
Everything after this opening paragraph is a first cut at a
"frequently asked questions" posting for comp.software-eng. I'd
appreciate feedback on the content and format.
- I'm happy to add whatever other summaries have shown up here
recently, if they seem like topics that will recur. Send mail to
dalamb@umiacs.umd.edu. My site appears to have expired everything
before 1 April, which shortened the set of things I could include now.
- I'd expect to post it about once a month (with a 1-month expiry).
- Does anyone archive this group? anyone willing to start doing so?
- I titled this "f.a.q" because I expect more than CASE tools will
wind up in it eventually. Other groups seem to title these things
"welcome to X" for newsgroup X; I'm willing to go with whatever
folks think is most informative.
- The "originally collected by" lines are to give credit where it's
due; let me know if this seems appropriate.
Welcome to comp.software-eng, a newsgroup for discussion of software
engineering and related topics. This is the "frequently asked
questions" (FAQ) posting; it primarily summarizes availability of CASE
tools of various kinds. Look for lines starting with "Topic:"
("g Topic" command in rn).
Topic: CASE tools for object-oriented design and analysis
Originally collected by: calvo@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Sherri Calvo)
Last updated: 12 Apr 91 12:09:01 GMT
ObjectMaker (a/k/a Adagen)
Mark V Systems, Ltd.
16400 Ventura Blvd., #319
Encino, CA 91436
818-995-7671 (voice) 818-995-4267 (fax)
Runs under Windows, X11, Mac
Tools for Yourdon, Booch, Buhr methodologies
Code generation and reverse engineering for Ada, C/C++ (may be under
development.)
Unirel Openlook Toolkit
Unirel
Centro Commerciale Osmannoro
Via Volturno, 12
50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
+39 55 301279 (voice) +39 55 318525 (fax)
US $2000
Interactive Development Environments (IDE)
Vienna, VA ofc. 703-848-8808
San Francisco 415-543-0900
sales@ide.com
Extension of Ada design tools to handle OOPLs, primarily C++
Cadre Teamwork
401-351-5950
associated with Project Technology
Meller/Schlaer OOA capability including ERDs in upcoming V.4.0.
Ada structure graphs (Booch/Buhr)
Systematica Virtual Software Factory
England
(0202)297292 (voice)
Hierarchical OO design package based on GOOD
CASET
714-496-8670
IPSYS Tool Building Kit
Coad/Yourdon toolkit
(no contact info)
supports methodology in Yourdon's book "Object-Oriented Analysis"
System Architect
Popkin Software (no contact info)
Supports ER diagrams, Booch methodology for Ada and C++, Coad/Yourdon
Diagram editor checks for consistency and rule violations
Runs under MS-Windows
Robochart
Digital Insight, PO Box 2095, Evergreen CO 80439-2095
303-674-5232
Interactive diagram editor for PC's ($96), SunView ($345);
X-windows version under development. Does hierarchical ERDs, dataflows, etc.
Pending summaries: The following people are currently collecting
information on the following topics; if you are looking for the same
information, please wait for their summary to appear.
Pending topic: CASE products for OS/2
Contact: deanr@mixcom.com (Dean Roth)
Request posted: 11 Apr 91 19:04:37 GMT
Pending topic: Integrated "cradle-to-grave" tools for FORTRAN
scientific programming, preferably on UNIX or X workstations
Contact: miller@cs.wm.EDU (Keith W. Miller)
Request posted: 16 Apr 91 16:00:51 GMT
Pending topic: CASE tools for Ada, and user experience with same.
Contact: 5162p@cc.nps.navy.mil (James Connor)
Request posted: 16 Apr 91 21:51:37 GMT
--
David Alex Lamb internet: dalamb@umiacs.umd.edudalamb@umiacs.umd.edu (David Lamb) (05/09/91)
Welcome to comp.software-eng, a newsgroup for discussion of software
engineering and related topics. This is the monthly "frequently asked
questions" (FAQ) posting; at present it summarizes:
CASE Vendor list
Other sources of information
Configuration Management tools
CASE tools for object-oriented design and analysis
Problem Tracking systems
Textbooks
It will expand as we recognize other frequent questions. Look for
lines starting with "Topic:" ("g Topic" 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. Most products are trademarks
or registered trademarks of their vendors. Send comments to
dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb), or dalamb@umiacs.umd.edu.
Topic: CASE Vendor list
Originally compiled by: Scott Marcus <marcuss@sol.cs.fau.edu> and/or
Theo Heavey <theo@cs.fau.edu>
CASE research group, Dept. of Computer Science,
Florida Atlantic University
sponsored by Florida Industry High Technology Council
Last updated: Mon, 6 May 91
Adpac Corp.
Adpac CASE Tools
340 Brannan St.; San Francisco, CA 94107; 415-974-6699
Advanced Logical Software
Anatool
9903 Santa Monica Blvd., suite 108; Beverly Hills, CA 90212
213-653-5786
Advanced Technology International, Inc.
SuperCase
AGS Management Systems, Inc.
Multi/CAM
category: front end
880 First Ave.; King of Prussia, PA 19406; 215-265-1550
American Management Systems, Inc.
Life Cycle Productivity System
category: 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
category: front end
Route 206 and Orchard Rd.; CN-8; Princeton, NJ 08543
Arthur Andersen & Co.
Design/1 (part of Foundation Series)
category: 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
Atherton Technology
Software BackPlane
1333 Bordeaux Drive; Sunnyvale, CA. 94089; Tele: 408 734-9822
Fax: 408 744-1607
ASYST Technologies, Inc.
The Developer
One Naperville Plaza; Naperville, IL 60540; 800-361-3673
Bachman Information Systems
BACHMAN Product Set
Cadre Technologies, Inc
Teamwork OS/2 3.0
category: front end
222 Richmond St.; Providence, RI 02903; 401-351-5950
The CADWARE Group, Ltd
SYLVA Series
category: Front end
CaseWare, Inc
AMPLIFY
3530 Hyland Avenue, Suite 115; Costa Mesa, CA 92626; 714-754-0308
The Catalyst Group
PATHVU Series
category: 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
category: front end, back end, RE/M
8200 Greensboro Dr, Suite 1010; McLean, VA 22102; 703-448-8181
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
Coding Factory
CoFac
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
category: front end
3610 Fairview Park Dr; Falls Church, VA 22042; 703-876-1000
Computer Systems Advisers, Inc
POSE 4.0
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
category: front end, back end, RE/M
138 Technology Dr.; Waltham, MA 02154
100 Fifth Avenue; Waltham, MA 02154-9863; 617-894-7000
Cullinet Software, Inc.
IDMS/Architect
D. Appleton Company
IDEF/Leverage
1334 Park View Ave., Suite 220; Manhattan Beach, CA 90266; 213-546-7575
Deft Inc.
Deft
567 Dixon Rd., suite 110; Rexdale, ON M9W 1H7; Canada; 416-249-2246
Deloitte, Haskins & Sells
4Front
200 East Randolph Dr.; Chicago, IL 60601; 312-856-8168
Digital Equipment Corp.
DECASE
DECdirect; Continental Blvd.; Merrimack, NH 03054; 800-344-4825
ECS Associates
SQL-Link-Plus
3812 Sepulveda Blvd.; Torrance, CA 90505; 213-378-9260
ICONIX Software Engineering Inc.
PowerTools Series
category: front end, back end, RE/M
2800 Twenty Eighth St, Suite 320; Santa Clara, CA 90405; 213-458-0092
i-Logix
StateMate
22 Third Ave.; Burlington, MA 01803; 617-272-8090
Index Technology Corp.
Excelerator 1.84
category: front end
One Main St.; Cambridge, MA 02142; 800-777-8858; 617-494-8200
Institute for Information Industry
KangaTool Series
category: front-end
8th Floor, 106 Ho-Ping E. Rd.; Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Integrated Systems, Inc.
AutoCode
2500 Mission College Blvd.; Santa Clara, CA 95054; 408-980-1500
Interactive Development Environments
Software Through Pictures
category: front end
595 Market St., 12th Floor; San Francisco, CA 94105; 415-543-0900
KnowledgeWare, Inc.
IEW/WS
category: front end
3340 Peachtree Rd.; Atlanta, GA 30026; 404-231-8575; 800-338-4130
Language Technology
RECODER, INSPECTOR
category: RE/M
27 Congress St; Salem. MA 01970; 800-732-6337; 508-741-1507
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
Manager Software Products, Inc.
Manager Series
category: Front end, back end
131 Hartwell Ave; Lexington, MA 02173-3126; 617-863-5800
Matterhorn, Inc.
HIBOL
category: back end
McDonnell-Douglas
ProKit*Workbench STRADIS, PRO-IV
category: front end
P.O. Box 516; Dept. L515, MS 2812301; St. Louis, MO 63166; 800-325-1087
800-822-7337; 314-232-5715
Mentor Graphics Corp.
Analyst/RT, Designer, Auditor
category: front end
8500 Southwest Creekside Place; Beaverton, OR 97005; 503-626-7000
Meta Systems
QuickSpec, Structured Architect (SA), Structured
Architect-Integrator (SA-I), PSL/PSA, Report Specification
Interface (RSI), View Integration System (VIS).
category: front end, RE/M
315 E. Eisenhower Parkway, Suite 200; Ann Arbor, MI 48108; 313-663-6027
Micro Focus, Inc.
COBOL/2 Workbench
2465 East Bayshore Rd.; Palo Alto, CA 94303; 415-856-4161
Netron, Inc.
NETRON/CAP
99 St. Regis Crescent N; Downsview, Ontario; Canada M3J 1Y9
416-636-8333
On-Line Software International
CasePac
2 Executive Dr.; Ft. Lee Executive Park; Ft. Lee, NJ 07024; 201-592-0009
Optima, Inc.
DesignVision 1.7, DesignMachine 2.0
category: 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
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
ProMod, Inc.
ProMod Series
category: front end, back end, RE/M
23685 Birtcher Dr.; El Toro, CA 92630; 714-855-3046; 800-255-2689
Rational
Rational Design Facility
category: front end
3320 Scott Blvd; Santa Clara, CA 95054
Ready Systems Corp.
CardTools
470 Potrero Ave.; P.O. Box 60217; Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Sage Software Inc.
Polytron Version Control System (PVCS), APS Development Center
category: back end, RE/M
1700 N.W. 167th Place; Beaverton, OR 97006; 800-547-4000
Sapiens International
Perfect, Object-Modeller, Sapiens, Quix
Sapiens USA; 295 7th Ave.; New York, NY 10001; 212-366-9394
Six Sigma Case
Canonizer
13456 SE 27th Place; Bellevue, WA 98005; 206-643-6911
Softlab, Inc.
Maestro
category: front end, back end, RE/M
188 The Embarcadero; Bayside Plaza, Suite 750; San Francisco, CA 94105
415-957-9175
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
Strategic Networked Application Platform
1600 Wilson Blvd.; Arlington, VA 22209; 703-276-7910
StarSys, Inc.
MacBubbles
category: front end
11113 Norlec Dr.; Silver Spring, MD 20902
Syscorp International, Inc.
MicroStep 1.3
9420 Research Blvd., Suite 200; Austin, TX 78759; 512-338-0591
Telelogic Europe
SDT
33 Boulevard de la Cambre; B-1050 Brussels; Belgium; 011-32-2-647-3670
Texas Instruments Inc.
Information Engineering Facility (IEF) 4.0
6550 Chase Oaks Blvd.; Plano, TX 75023; Local Address:
2950 N.W. 62nd St. Suite 100; Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33309
800-527-3500
Tom Software
Application Xcellence
127 SW 156th Street; Seattle, WA 98166; 206-246-7022
Tranform Logic Inc. (Previosly Nastec Corp.)
DesignAid 4.3
category: front end
24681 Northwestern Hwy.; Southfield, MI 48075; 800-872-8296
7799 Leesburg, Suite 1110; North Tower; Falls Church, VA 22043
703-556-9401
Transform Logic Corporation
Transform
8502 East Via de Ventura; Scottsdale, AZ 85258; 602-948-2600
Unisys Corp.
Linc Design Assistant, Linc, Mapper, DMS II
P.O. Box 500; Bluebell, PA 19424; 215-986-4011
ViaSoft, Inc.
Via/Insight, Via/SmarTest
3033 North 44th St., Suite 280; Phoenix, AZ 85018; 602-952-0050
Visible Systems Corp.
Visible Analyst Workbench
category: front end
950 Winter St.; Waltham, MA 02154; 617-969-4100
Visual Software, Inc.
vsDesigner, vsSQL, vsObject Maker
category: front end
3945 Freedom Circle, Suite 540; Santa Clara, CA 95054; 408-988-7575
Westmount Technology B.V.
ISEE, TSEE, RTEE
5020 148th Ave. N.E.; P.O. Box 97002; Redmond, WA 98073-9702
Yourdan, Inc.
Analyst/Designer Toolkit, Cradle
category: front end
1501 Broadway; New York, NY 10036; 212-391-2828
Topic: Other sources of information
Last updated: 27 Feb 91 20:40:00 GMT
There is a Hypercard stack that you can get by anonymous FTP from the
info-mac/card directory at sumex-aim.stanford.edu. The version 1.1
runs under various Hypercard versions including 2.0v2 on newer Macs:
-rw-r--r-- 1 macmod 286168 Jan 29 12:13 case-products-11.hqx
A short companion report (about 60 pp. including tool signal info and
my view of why and where this market is going) can be obtained from
GMD; Western US office is: GMD, 1942 University Ave. #207, Berkeley
CA 94704.) Heinz W. Schmidt hws@icsi.berkeley.edu
Topic: Configuration Management tools
Originally collected by: rene@Cadence.COM (Rene Churchill)
Last updated: 14 Feb 91 20:49:19 GMT
DSEE (pronounced dizzy) [Domain Software Engineering Environment] by
Apollo (now HP) is an excellent program that has excellent version
control and does builds for the user. These builds can be easily
customized to a specific purpose and spread out over several different
machines simultaniously. Excellent for large development projects.
Problem: Cannot be ported to other machines. Uses non-standard
facilities of Domain/OS; David Lubkin of the DSEE Project says it will
be availale on other operating systems, at least HP's OSF offering. I
don't know their main phone number, but their help line could get you
in touch with somebody. (1-800-227-6556)
SCCS, Unix standard, ported to everything and it's brother. Clumsy
and not suited to many users working on the same project. Many people
place scripts around the various SCCS commands to help the user.
RCS, better than SCCS, but still requires scripts to make life easier
on the developer. It does have most of features that I like in DSEE,
however, they are harder to use. From Purdue originally; available on
the GNU distribution, widely ported, and free. Available via
anonymous FTP from several sources:
site filename
archive.cs.ruu.nl /pub/GNU/rcs-5.5.tar.Z
cs.purdue.edu pub/RCS/rcs.5_5.tar.Z
prep.ai.mit.edu pub/gnu/rcs-5.5.tar.Z
uunet.uu.net gnu/rcs-5.5.tar.Z
It works best with GNU diff 1.15; look for diff-1.15.tar.Z. Look for
Brin Berliner's CVS 1.2 wrapper scripts in cvs-1.2.tar.Z at MIT. Look
for Dick Grune's CVS 3.0 at RUU (I don't know the file name).
Softool Corp. sells a "Family of change and configuration control
products" The literature looks good. This program does code control,
builds, merging and other items that look good for group projects.
It's also been ported to DEC, IBM, Sun HP, Harris, and IBM PC
computers. It's been around for a long time, so it's a very mature
product.
Softool Corp.; 340 S. Kellogg Ave.; Goleta, CA 93117
(805) 683-5777
Imperial Software Technology Limited sells some CASE tools that do
builds and manage source code. The litereature is not that glossy,
and the impression I got was of a immature set of programs. I also
sent them a fax and email and have yet to get a response. (6+ months)
Imperial Software Technology Ltd.; 95 London Street; Reading RG1 4QA
United Kingdom
Phone: 0734-587055 (add England country code)
Usenet: apg@ist.co.uk
Aide-de-Camp is another good looking product from its literature.
Sounds very mature and has many good feature mentioned above. Rather
than independant versions of each file, it stores which groups of
files change together: a nice idea for tracking widespread changes.
Software Maintenance & Development Systems, Inc.
PO Box 555; Concord, MA 01742
(508) 369-7398
Procase is an interesting database for code control. It creates a
database of all of your code and will display call graphs and other
very fancy functions. It requires you to use its editor, rather than
vi or emacs (though it does have emulation modes for them) It has a
very impressive user interface, just not enough flexibility for me.
Procase; 210 Canegie Center, Suite 101; Princeton, NJ 08540
(609) 452-8848
Digital Equipments Corp.'s VAXSET:
CMS: Code Management System; Code libraries and configuration control
MMS: Module Management System; Like MAKE integrated to CMS
LSE: Language Sensitive Editor - Provided programming support as part
of the editors functioning for all supported VMS languages
SCA: Source Code Analyzer - Provide variable information, call trees,
etc. Integrated into LSE and CMS.
DTM: DEC Test Manager; Automated scripting tool for performing
tests of software, creating benchmarks and helping with
regression testing
PCA: Performance and Coverage Analyzer - Allows for program analysis.
Validates path coverage of testing.
All these product are operational on VAX VMS platforms. Additioanlly there
is the interactive debugger, the Common Data Dictionary (repository),
DEC Design, DEC Plan, and other tools.
Amplify Control from CaseWare, Inc. is an interactive development
environment emphasizing configuration management and tool integration.
It provides user-modifiable graphical and non-graphical user interfaces.
The graphical interfaces support current standards such as Motif, Sunview,
and OpenLook. Amplify also supports several configuration management
methodologies via its flexible object-oriented data modeling.
Sales Department; CaseWare, Inc.; 3530 Hyland Ave. #115;
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
voice: (714) 754 0308 FAX: (714) 754 1568
email: amplify@cwi.com; uunet!cwi.com!amplify
Topic: CASE tools for object-oriented design and analysis
Originally collected by: calvo@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Sherri Calvo)
Last updated: 24 Apr 91
Cadre Teamwork
401-351-5950
associated with Project Technology
Meller/Schlaer OOA capability including ERDs in upcoming V.4.0.
Ada structure graphs (Booch/Buhr)
CASET
714-496-8670
IPSYS Tool Building Kit
Coad/Yourdon toolkit
(no contact info)
supports methodology in Yourdon's book "Object-Oriented Analysis"
HOOD (Hierarchical Object Oriented Design)
HOOD User's Group:
HUG Administration
CRI A/S
Bregneroedvej 144
DK-3460 Birkeroed
Attn: Finn Hass
DENMARK
Now mandatory for several European Space Agency projects.
Interactive Development Environments (IDE)
Vienna, VA ofc. 703-848-8808
San Francisco 415-543-0900
sales@ide.com
Extension of Ada design tools to handle OOPLs, primarily C++
ObjectMaker (a/k/a Adagen)
Mark V Systems, Ltd.; 16400 Ventura Blvd., #319; Encino, CA 91436
818-995-7671 (voice) 818-995-4267 (fax)
Runs under Windows, X11, Mac
Tools for Yourdon, Booch, Buhr methodologies
Code generation and reverse engineering for Ada, C/C++ (may be under
development.)
Robochart
Digital Insight, PO Box 2095, Evergreen CO 80439-2095
303-674-5232
Interactive diagram editor for PC's ($96), SunView ($345);
X-windows version under development. Does hierarchical ERDs, dataflows, etc.
System Architect
Popkin Software. 212-571-3434 (voice) 212-571-3436 (FAX)
11 Park Place, New York, NY 10007
Supports ER diagrams, Booch methodology for Ada and C++, Coad/Yourdon
Diagram editor checks for consistency and rule violations
Runs under MS-Windows
Systematica Virtual Software Factory
England
(0202)297292 (voice)
Hierarchical OO design package based on GOOD
Unirel Openlook Toolkit
Unirel; Centro Commerciale Osmannoro; Via Volturno, 12;
50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
+39 55 301279 (voice) +39 55 318525 (fax)
US $2000
Topic: Problem Tracking systems
Originally collected by: pyke@escaegate2.boeing.com (Ronald B Pyke)
Last updated: 6 May 91 22:41:29 GMT
The only commercial product for the Apollo mentioned was:
DDTS
Qualtrak Corporation
3315 San Filipe Road, Suite 16; San Jose, CA 95135-2000
1-408-274-8867
Another product mentioned that does not run on the Apollo, but does
run on other UNIX platforms (at least Sun SPARCstation, IBM 6000, 88K
machines, with plans for 386 UNIX (SCO) and MIPS by "1Q 1991").
No Problem! -
Pencom Software
9050 Capital Texas Hwy Suite 300; Austin, TX 78759
512-343-1111; 512-343-9650 (FAX)
Several responses mentioned software available to Software Productivity
Consortium (SPC) members, and also software developed at Boeing.
Topic: Textbooks
Originally collected by: hsrender@happy.colorado.edu
Last updated: 23 March 1991
Numbers 1-8 are Hal Render's original list in his rough order of preference.
1. _Software Engineering: The Production of Quality Software_
by Shari Pfleeger, 2nd Edition, Macmillan, 1991, ISBN 0-02-395115-X
hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #2, had the best explanations of
what I want to cover (different engineering lifecycles, methods,
and tools).
2. _Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach_ by Roger Pressman,
2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1987, ISBN 0-07-050783-X
hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #1, had the best explanations of
what I want to cover (different engineering lifecycles, methods,
and tools).
robb@iotek.uucp (Robb Swanson): the definitive book on the subject as far
as I'm concerned.
johnson@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Michelle Johnson): a good text book as well
as reference
3. _Software Systems Engineering_ by Andrew Sage and James D. Palmer
hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #1, had the best explanations of
what I want to cover (different engineering lifecycles, methods,
and tools).
4. _Fundamentals of Software Engineering_ by Ghezzi, Jayazeri and Mandrioli
Prentice-Hall, 1991
hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #5, good, and covered the issue of
specifications and verification better, but at the expense of
other aspects of the development process. I may use one of them
for a graduate course in software engineering.
Nancy Leveson <nancy@murphy.ICS.UCI.EDU>: Better than Sommerville,
although I like much of Sommerville.
5. _Software Engineering with Abstractions_ by Valdis Berzins and Luqi
Addison Wesley, 1991, 624 pages.
hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #4, good, and covered the issue of
specifications and verification better, but at the expense of
other aspects of the development process. I may use one of them
for a graduate course in software engineering.
straub@cs.UMD.EDU (Pablo A. Straub): Both this and #9 have a good
emphasis on using formal techinques (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
hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Our current text, and my basic problem
with it is the vague way it covers many of the topics.
7. _Software Engineering with Student Project Guidance_ by Barbara Mynatt
hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #8, not bad, but fairly low-level
and doesn't cover many tools and techniques I consider valuable.
8. _Software Engineering_ by Roger Jones
hsrender@happy.colorado.edu: Like #8, not bad, butfairly low-level
and doesn't cover many tools and techniques I consider valuable.
9. _Software Engineering: Planning for Change by David Alex Lamb,
Prentice-Hall, 1988, 298 pages
straub@cs.UMD.EDU (Pablo A. Straub): Both this and #5 have a good
emphasis on using formal techinques (i.e., doing engineering
properly), but they do not disregard informal methods; chapters
are roughly organized around the traditional lifecycle.
#9 has the advantage of being shorter, yet covering most relevant
topics (lifecycle phases, formal specs, v&v, configurations,
management, etc.). It is very appropriate for an undergrad course.
It emphasizes that maintenance is a given and should be taken into
account (hence the title). Several specification techniques are
covered and used to develop a project in Pascal.
10._A Practical Handbook for Software Development_ by N.D. Birrell and
M.A. Ould, Cambridge University Press, 1985/88. ISBN 0-521-34792-0
(Paper cover); ISBN 0-521-25462-0 (Hard cover)
ewoods@hemel.bull.co.uk (Eoin Woods)
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