Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news2.wam.umd.edu!elk.ncren.net!newsflash.concordia.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!utnut!news.ccs.queensu.ca!cs.queensu.ca!dalamb From: dalamb@spamcop.net (David Alex Lamb) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Comp.software-eng mini-FAQ (weekly) Supersedes: Followup-To: comp.software-eng Date: 5 Feb 2006 10:15:04 GMT Organization: Computing and Information Science, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada Lines: 40 Distribution: world Expires: 25 Feb 2006 10:15:04 GMT Message-ID: Reply-To: dalamb@spamcop.net (David Alex Lamb) NNTP-Posting-Host: highnoon.cs.queensu.ca Keywords: FAQ, Software Engineering X-Disclaimer: Approval for *.answers is based on form, not content. Originator: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu comp.software-eng:123097 Last-Modified: 29 Feb 2000 Archive-name: software-eng/mini Welcome to comp.software-eng, a newsgroup for discussion of software engineering and related topics. This mini-FAQ is posted weekly, as a reminder of where to find the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) postings, which appear about every four weeks. The information in the FAQs and the comp.software-eng archives is available through the World-Wide Web at and also Everything visible through the Web is also available via FTP; the above URL leads to the same directory as you get via anonymous FTP to The following other newsgroups discuss topics related to software engineering; consequently, coverage of these topics in this newsgroup (and thus the comp.software-eng archives) tends to be sparse. Many of these groups have their own FAQ's, which you can find in the appropriate *.answers group (e.g. comp.answers for any group whose name starts with "comp."). comp.groupware Software/hardware for shared interactive environments comp.human-factors Human factors, including user interfaces comp.lang.* Discussion of specific programming languages. comp.newprod Announcements of new products comp.object Object-oriented analysis/design/programming/systems comp.programming Programming, especially algorithms and data structures comp.realtime Computer-based realtime systems comp.software.measurement Software metrics comp.software.testing Software testing comp.software.config-mgmt Configuration management and problem tracking comp.specification.misc Formal specification methods comp.specification.larch The Larch family of specification notations comp.specification.z The Z formal specification notation comp.sw.components Reusable software components -- "Yo' ideas need to be thinked befo' they are say'd" - Ian Lamb, age 3.5 http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~dalamb/ qucis->cs to reply (it's a long story...) .