All News

  • June 04, 2004: Results of the eWorkshop on Software Inspections and Pair Programming are now available! Click HERE to check it out!
  • March 31, 2004: The CeBASE e-mail update for March 2004 is out! Click HERE to check it out!
  • January 13, 2004: The CeBASE e-mail update for January 2004 is out! Click HERE to see it.
  • January 9, 2004: Link to USC's MBASE CSCI577 Archives added to the list of available data on the Resources area. Click HERE to check it out.
  • December 16, 2003: CeBASE and ViSEK conduct eWorkshop on Software Inspections and Pair Programming.
  • September 03, 2003: The CeBASE e-mail update for September 2003  is out! Click HERE to see it.
  • August 27, 2003: Results of the workshop ""What we have learned about Agile Methods"  that was held at the Agile Development Conference is now available. Click HERE to check it out.
  • June 10, 2003: The CeBASE e-mail update for June 2003  is out! Click HERE to see it or to add your name to the e-mailing list.
  • March 31, 2003: The CeBASE e-mail update for March 2003  is out! Click HERE to see it or to add your name to the e-mailing list.
  • March 26, 2003: SPEARMINT/EPG added to our tools page. SPEARMINT™, from Fraunhofer IESE, is a graphical modelling tool for describing software development processes. Release 7.1 of SPEARMINT™ is now available. For more details check the SPEARMINT™ page or our tools page.
  • March 25, 2003:  Workshop: "What we have learned about Agile Methods": In order to signify closure of the series of eWorkshops in Agile Methods, Dr. Forrest Shull (CeBASE and Fraunhofer Center Maryland) and Dr. Laurie Williams (North Carolina State University) will host a face-to-face meeting at the Agile Development Conference that will be held in Salt Lake City, UT from June 25 to June 28, 2003. Using some of the heuristics that resulted from the eWorkshops as a starting point, participants will have the opportunity to contribute their own experiences to refine or expand the list of heuristics.   
  • March 17, 2003: New DACS state-of-the-art report on Agile Software Development by FC-MD scientists is now available. Click here to download a copy.
  • January 31, 2003: The CeBASE e-mail update for January 2003  is out! Click HERE to see it or to add your name to the e-mailing list.
  • January 30: In conjunction with ISERN and FC-MD, we are creating a repository of empirical studies on agile methods. To view what we have so far and contribute your own studies click HERE .
  • January 29, 2003: New version of Hackystat released by CeBASE collaborator Philip Johnson! The new version has a new architecture more suited for extension and a new user interface. To learn more about Hackystat and check out the new version public server and download link please see details on out tools page.
  • January 21, 2003: A link to the prototype tool BORE (Building an Organizational repository of Experiences) was added to the tools section.  Click HERE to check it out!
  • December 4, 2002: CFP: International Symposium on Software Engineering (ISESE 2003). The objective of the symposium is to foster the development of empirical research in software engineering by providing a forum where researchers and practitioners can report on and discuss new research results. ISESE 2003 is part of, and co-located with ESEIW2003 - Empirical Software Engineering International Week. Submission deadline is Saturday, March 29, 2003. For more details, click here.
  • December 2, 2002: The results of the Third eWorkshop on Agile Methods are available HERE . 
  • November 26, 2002: The first bi-monthly e-mail update from CeBASE went out! Click HERE to see it or to add your name to the e-mailing list. 
  • November 25, 2002:  Repository of data collected on reading experiments and associated artificats now open to collaborators. Click HERE to browse the repository. 
  • October 10, 2002: The paper Replicating Software Engineering Experiments: Addressing the Tacit Knowledge Problem by members of the CeBASE team won the best paper award at the Fisrt International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering in Nara, Japan.
  • July 10, 2002: The results of the Second eWorkshop on Agile Methods are available HERE .
  • June 7, 2002: CeBASE sponsored a workshop on "What We Know about Fighting Defects," to generate a list of heuristics on software defect reduction that reflect what practitioners, researchers, and consultants feel to be the current state of knowledge in this area. A summary of the resulting discussion is available HERE .
  • May 14, 2002: Article on Crosstalk issue this month about the CeBASE Method: "Achieving CMMI Level 5 Improvements with MBASE and the CeBASE Method"
  • May 7, 2002: The results of the First eWorkshop on Agile Methods are now available. The eWorkshop used the same concepts and tools developed for CeBASE.
  • February, 2002: The COTS Lessons Learned Repository is now available at: http://fc-md.umd.edu/ll/index.asp .
  • September 27, 2001: "Focus" article from IEEE Software - Sep/Oct 2001 mentions CeBASE: Goth, G. NSDIR: A Legacy Beyond Failure – Early Benchmarking Effort was ahead of its time. IEEE Software, Sep/Oct 2001, pages 53-56.
  • September 1, 2001: Summary of the Second CeBASE eWorkshop - July 16, 2001.
  • September 1, 2001: Photos of the Second CeBASE eWorkshop - July 16, 2001.
  • June 6, 2001: "In the News" article from IEEE Software - May/June 2001 by Greg Goth
  • May 30, 2001: PowerPoint presentation with photos and a video of the First CeBASE eWorkshop - March 16,2001
  • May 14, 2001: Summary of the First CeBASE eWorkshop - March 16,2001
  • February 6-9, 2001: USC CSE's Annual Research Review and Focused Workshop on COTS-Based System
  • January 10-12, 2001: High Dependability Computing Consortium
  • December 22, 2000: Software Defect Reduction Top-10 List
  • October 9, 2000: NSF Grant Press Release