Dear friends and colleagues:

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

First, however, we regret to inform you that our primary funding for the CeBASE website has come to an end. Maintenance of the website has been supported since 2000 as part of basic research funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, and we would like to once again acknowledge their support over this time and our gratitude. We believe (and hope you agree) that thanks to this funding the CeBASE project has been able to create a good community of researchers with similar interests. Due to the interest shown over time in the CeBASE website we have decided to keep it up and operational to the best of our ability. However, since this activity will not be funded, we won’t be sending the newsletter bi-monthly, but we will notify you of new interesting things as they come up in the future. As always, we would continue to appreciate any contributions of relevant content that you would like to provide, and will do our best to respond in a timely manner.

Our new additions to the website for the last 2 months include:

• Results of the workshop: "What we have learned about Agile Methods" are now available. The workshop was hosted by Dr. Forrest Shull (CeBASE and Fraunhofer Center Maryland) and Dr. Laurie Williams (North Carolina State University) at the Agile Development Conference (http://www.agiledevelopmentconference.com/) that was held in Salt Lake City, UT from June 25 to June 28, 2003. The goal of the workshop was to signify closure of the series of eWorkshops in Agile Methods. Using some of the heuristics that resulted from the eWorkshops as a starting point, the participants had the opportunity to contribute their own experiences to refine or expand the list of heuristics. Check out the results at: http://www.cebase.org/ADCexchange/ . 
• The subset of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) database is now also available at the CeBASE website in MSAccess format. The subset includes defect data of more than 200 projects over more than 15 years. A document describing the tables and columns of tables included in the subset was also added. For more details check http://www.cebase.org/www/Resources/SEL/ .

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

If you don’t want to receive future updates, or, if you received multiple updates, please send a message to pcosta@fc-md.umd.edu .

On behalf of the CeBASE team, thanks to all of you for your support and interest over this time!

Patricia Costa
From the CeBASE team