Volume 23, Number 5 September 1998

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING NOTES

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LETTERS:
Letter from the Executive Committee, Martin Griss 1
Letter from the Chair, David Notkin 3
Letter from the Editor, Will Tracz 3
"Make My Day!" SENsational Survey 5
ICSE 99: A Word for the Program Chairs, David Garlan and Jeff Kramer 5
SSR'99 Invitation, Ali Mili 6
SEN Survey Questionnaire Early Results, Greg Cooper 6
Texas Board Votes to License Software Engineers, Donald J. Bagert 7
Science and Engineering for Software Development: A Recognition of Harlan D. Mills' Legacy, Ali Mili 8

COLUMNS:
ACM Fellow: Grady Booch, Greg Cooper (ed.) 8
ACM Fellow: Manny Lehman, Arnulf Mester 11
Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes, Mark Doernhoefer 12
Evaluating Software Eng. Methods and Tools -- Part 12: Evaluating DESMET, Barbara Ann Kitchenham 21
Risks to the Public, Peter G. Neumann and contributors 25

WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE SUMMARIES:
ICSR'98, Jeff Poulin and contributors 30
REFSQ'98, Andreas L. Opdahl and Klaus Pohl 36
Program Comprehension and Software Reengineering, Hausi Muller, Thomas Reps and Gregor Snelting 44
Componentware Development, Hyoseob Kim 50

PAPERS:
An Implementation Mechanism for Design Patterns, D. Janaki Ram, R.A. Dwivedi, Ramakrishna Ongole 52
Integrating a Formal Specification Notation with HOOD, Mingchun Zheng, Jiazhong Zhang, and Yanbing Wang 57
Software Documentation as an Engineering Process, Jose R. Hilera, Leon A. Gonzalez, Jose A. Gutierrez, and J.M. Martinez 61
Test Data Generation, V. Rajanna 65
Making Software Development Investment Decisions, John Favaro and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger 69
Understanding Data-Sensitive Code: One Piece of the Year 2000 Puzzle, Norman Wilde, Kristin Blackwell, Randy Justice, and W. Eric Wong 75
Module Weakness: A New Measure, Yogesh Singh and Pradeep Bhatia 81
Formalizing Hierarchical Object Oriented Design Method, Riri Huang 82

BOOK REVIEWS:
E. Michael Wing 89

CALENDAR OF EVENTS: Arnulf Mester
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