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Date: 31 Jul 2002
A. Professional Journals
Meant for working professionals with technical backgrounds.
1. IEEE Software
summary: often presents recent research work, but much more readably
than typical research journals.
publisher: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers)
subscriptions: IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331,
Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, USA
2. Software Engineering Notes
summary: unrefereed newsletter; includes digest of comp.risks
publisher: ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) SIGSOFT (Special
Interest Group on Software engineering)
subscriptions: ACM, 11 West 42d St, New York, NY 10036, USA
3. Software Maintenance News
summary: monthly report on people and technology in maintenance; aimed
at practitioners
publisher: Software Maintenance News Inc, B10 Suite 237, 4546 El Camino
Real, Los Altos, CA 94022, USA
subscriptions: as above
4. Software Testing, Verification and Reliability
summary: aimed at practitioners; dissemination of new techniques,
methodologies and standards
publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Baffins Lane, Chichester, West Sussex
PO19 1UD, UK
5. The Software Practitioner (TSP)
summary: started late 1990; meant for real practitioners
publisher: Computing Trends, 1416 Sare Rd., Bloomington IN 47401 USA;
voice/fax: 812-337-8047
6. Software Testing & Quality Engineering (at http://www.stqemagazine.com/)
summary: Practical and relevent. Largely authored by practicing software
QA and testing professionals.
publisher: Software Quality Engineering (see http://www.sqe.com) since
1998; previously published as Software QA by Steve Whitchurch.
B. Mixed Research and Practice
1. Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
summary: refereed; intended for both researchers and practitioners;
joint US/UK editorial board
publisher: Wiley (see above)
subscriptions: Journals Subscription Department, at above address
2. Software Engineering Journal (SEJ)
summary: full spectrum of articles from practical experience to long-
term research
publisher: IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers) and BCS (British
Computer Society); write to IEE Publication Sales, PO Box 96,
Stevenage, Herts, SG1 2SD, United Kingdom.
3. Software: Practice and Experience
summary: not always software engineering; good reputation for practice
publisher: Wiley (see above)
4. The Software Quality Journal
summary: academic research and industrial case studies and experience
publisher: Chapman & Hall, Journals Promotion Department, North
America:29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001-2291, USA. Europe:
2-6 Boundary Row, London SE1 8HN, UK
C. Research Journals
Meant for presenting recent research results.
1. Information and Software Technology (IST)
summary: broad spectrum, much software engineering, software process,
but also computer science topics.
publisher: Butterworth-Heineman, Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford, UK
2. Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
summary: main software engineering research journal
publisher: IEEE (see above)
3. Transaction on Software Engineering Methodology (TOSEM)
summary: first issue dated January 1992; not enough track record for an
opinon yet.
publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
4. Journal of Systems and Software
summary: meant to be more practitioner-oriented than other research
journals
publisher: Elsevier
D. Other magazines
1. Software
summary: "For Managers of Enterprise-Wide Software Resources" primarily
aimed at Management Information Systems (MIS) world
publisher: Sentry Publishing Company, Inc, 1900 West Park Drive,
Westborough, MA 01581, (508) 366-2031
2. Testing Techniques Newsletter
summary: E-mailed on a monthly basis to support the publisher's
customers and to provide information of general use to the testing
community.
publisher: Software Research, Inc., 625 Third Street, San Francisco,
CA 94107-1997; Phone: (415) 957-1441; Toll Free: (800) 942-SOFT; FAX:
(415) 957-0730; E-MAIL: ttn@soft.com.
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