The ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

SIGSOFT focuses on issues related to all aspects of software development and maintenance. Areas of special interest include: requirements, specification and design, software architecture, validation, verification, debugging, software safety, software processes, software management, measurement, user interfaces, configuration management, software engineering environments, and CASE tools.

History

The field of software engineering is generally considered to have begun with the two NATO Software Engineering Conferences of the late 1960s.

Newsletter

Software Engineering Notes is the bi-monthly ACM SIGSOFT newsletter. For more information see http://www.acm.org/sigsoft/SEN/

Awards

ACM SIGSOFT is responsible for several different awards which are described on the Awards Page.

Organization

SIGSOFT is run by a volunteer Executive Committee composed of officers elected every two years, and assisted by a professional program director employed by the ACM.

The following policies and guidelines regulate the main activities related to SIGSOFT:

• Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality Policy for Program Committees
• Policy for Software Engineering Notes (SEN)
• Guidelines for Obtaining SIGSOFT Cooperation Status
• Guidelines for Obtaining SIGSOFT Sponsorship Status
• Guidelines for organizing a SIGSOFT-Sponsored Workshop

Information about the main SIGSOFT activities in the last years can be found into the SIGSOFT annual reports: 2001-2002, 2000-2001, 1999-2000, 1998-1999, 1997-1998, 1996-1997, 1995-1996