E-mail Update - June 2003

Welcome to the CeBASE e-mail update!

We are please to inform you of new updates on the CeBASE website (http://www.cebase.org) and other relevant news over the last months:

  • New lessons leaned were added to our repository concerning COTS-Based Software Development. Check out the latest lessons learned on the last page of the repository at: http://fc-md.umd.edu/ll/index.asp?s_Aspect=&FormLessonsLearned_Page=last#LessonsLearned
  • New reports are constantly being added to our reports repository. We now have a section dedicated to publications from collaborators and partners relevant to CeBASE activities. If you believe you have something that might interest the CeBASE community, please let us know and we can add a link to your publication from the website. ViSEK contributed a report called The State of the Practice of Review and Inspection Technologies in Germany. This report draws conclusions of an on-line survey to investigate the state of the practice in peer reviews, walkthroughs, and inspections in German software organizations. ViSEK - the Virtual Competence Center for Software Engineering’s goal is to disseminate information and promote discussions about software engineering technologies and tools to help software organizations improve their methods. Since ViSEK is funded by the German government as a service primarily for German industry, the website itself is not available in English. However, CeBASE will help to publicize English-language reports that may be of interest to the wider community through pointers on our website. To see the report go to our Reports sections http://www.cebase.org/www/Resources/reports/index.asp and select “Relevant publications from CeBASE collaborators and partners”.
  • A subset of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) database is now available at the CeBASE website. The subset includes data of more than 200 projects over more than 15 years. The online database was created by SEL for storage and retrieval of software engineering data. The extensive collection of project results will be of interest to any researchers investigating software defects, defect densities, or other aspects of software quality. For more details check http://www.cebase.org/www/Resources/SEL/.

Please remember you can always use the FAQ (http://fc-md.umd.edu/cebase-faq/faq.asp) to find answers to your questions about CeBASE and its research areas and also post your questions. You can use the Quick Links and Search features to quickly find relevant information on the website.

This update and the future ones will be archived in: http://www.cebase.org/www/AboutCeBASE/newsletter/index.htm

We would like to hear from you! Let us know your feedback and how can we improve the website to help you…

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Looking forward to “talking” to you again!

Patricia Costa
From the CeBASE team