Dear friends
and colleagues:
We are pleased
to inform you of recent news from CeBASE (http://www.cebase.org):
- 50
new lessons learned were added to our repository concerning
COTS-Based Software Development, bringing the total to 129 lessons
learned. Check out the latest lessons learned at: http://fc-md.umd.edu/ll/index.asp.
· On
December 16, 2003, CeBASE collaborated with Visek (http://www.visek.de)
to conduct an eWorkshop on Software Inspections and Pair
Programming. At a first glance, these
practices seem to share the common aim of collaboration among
developers/reviewers to develop quality software with minimal
defects. But one takes place while developing software and the other
while reviewing already existing software products. The eWorkshop
discussed: 1) commonalities/differences and relative
strengths/weaknesses of these practices, 2) under what conditions
each practice might be preferable, and 3) under what conditions the
two practices could be merged and what might be gained by doing so.
We
were happy to have the input of a very lively set of over 20
participants. As usual, the discussion was very interesting and soon
we will post the results of that discussion in our website. For the
time being, the log of the discussion can be accessed at: http://www.cebase.org/www/Resources/eWorkshops/PP-insp.html.
- The
MBASE CSCI577 Project Archive, from our CeBASE partner, the
University of Southern California (USC), can now be accessed at:
http://sunset.usc.edu/cse/pub/research/577project_archive/.
The archive is composed of categorized software engineering
empirical data, models and methods. Individuals researching
software engineering will find the repository very useful. The
archive contains artifacts from projects from two courses. The
first course, CSCI577a, focuses on software plans, processes,
requirements and architectures. The second course, CSCI577b,
focuses on product creation, integration, testing and maintenance.
The artifacts generated follow the MBASE guidelines.
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you believe you have papers, tools, and/or events that might
interest the CeBASE community, please let us know, and we can add a
link to your publication or tool from the website.
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future ones will be achieved in: http://www.cebase.org/www/AboutCeBASE/newsletter/index.htm
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Looking forward
to “talking” to you again!
Patricia Costa
From the CeBASE team