Volume 22, Number 4 July 1997

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING NOTES

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LETTERS:
Letter from the Chair, Lori Clarke 1
Letter from the Editor, Will Tracz 2

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Software Engineering Ethics Code, Don Gotterbarn, Keith Miller and Simon Rogerson 3
Clarifying The Role of the SEI: They Do Not Certify Assessors or Assessments, Herb Krasner 7
Errata: Issues in Designing an Information Model ..., Gary H. Sockut 7
COCOMO II Goes Public; Forum Scheduled for October, Barry Boehm 8
New Software Engineering Opportunities, Tony Wasserman 8
New Standards for Educational Technology, Roy Rada and James Schoening 9
1997 IEEE/EIA Standards Price is Ridiculous & Counterproductive, Mike Berens 10
Software Value Add Study, Don O'Neil 11

COLUMNS:
ESEC/FSE -> A Message from the Program Chair, Mehdi Jazayeri 13
Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes, Mark Doernhoefer 13
Evaluating SW Eng. Methods and Tool -- Part 7: Planning a Feature Analysis Evaluation, Barbara Ann Kitchenham and Lindsay Jones 21
Risks to the Public, Peter G. Neumann and contributors 25

REPORTS:
4th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Donald J. Reifer 32
Report on Bruce Anderson's Tutorial on Pattern Languages, Hyoseob Kim 34

PAPERS:
Hypertext Implications for CASE Environments, Offeri Drori 35
Creating Reusable Architectures: Initial Experience Report, Wing Lam 39
Automatic Transformation from Data Flow Diagrams to Structure Chart, Minyi Guo 44
Implementing Inheritance in Operational Graphical Languages, Rakesh Agarwal and Giorgio Bruno 50
An Integrated Solution-based Approach to SW Development ..., S. Srinath, K. Venkatesh, and D. Janaki Ram 56
Robust Estimation in Software Experiments, Y.Y. Chen and A. Stromberg 60
A Reuse Triplet for Systematic Software Reuse, Ezra K. Mugisa 65
A Pattern-Oriented Technique for Software Design, D. Janaki Ram, K. N. Anantha Raman, and K. N. Guruprasad 70
Property-Based Testing; A New Approach to Testing for Assurance, George Fink and Matt Bishop 74
Applying the STUDIO Method to Interface Design of an Environmental SW System, Mario G. Piattini and Herve Tigreeat 81
On Testable Object-Oriented Programming, Y. Wang, G. King, I. Court, M. Ross, and G. Staples 84
ICSE'97 Conference Newspaper -- Window On the World 91

BOOK REVIEWS:
Mark Doernhoefer and Barry L. Ives 113

CALENDAR OF EVENTS: Malcolm Slovin
115

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