Software Process and Quality Improvement

• Software Engineering Institute, significant repository of technical reports on many software engineering topics and source of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM and CMMI), http://www.sei.cmu.edu
• Karl Wieger’s website with a focus on requirements engineering and reviews/inspections, http://www.processimpact.com — good freebies
• IEEE Software, http://www.computer.org/software/, is a bimonthly refereed periodical that has excellent experience reports, research studies, opinions etc. of software engineering.
• CrossTalk, http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/, although a software engineering defence journal, it includes many useful articles on process improvement that are relevant to commercial non-defence organisations.
• Software Developer magazine, http://www.sdmagazine.com, includes articles and columns on development techniques, leading-edge technologies and tools, process and quality improvement, career development, project management, etc.
• Brad Appleton’s Software Process Links, http://www.enteract.com/~bradapp/links/sw-proc-links.html, contains numerous SPI links
• Software Dioxide, http://www.softwaredioxide.com/, is an industry initiative to meet the growing demands of the Software Engineering and Management community. It is a one stop shop for building better software, faster and cheaper.
• SQE testing Web Site: http://www.stickyminds.com contains many useful articles and resources on software quality and testing. See also the related STQE magazine, http://www.stqemagazine.com/, which is an excellent bimonthly publication.
• Systeme Evolutif, http://www.evolutif.co.uk, are our London-based partner company in the software testing services area. Web site contains a demo of our CBT version of the ISEB Foundation course and a number of useful articles and a tester forum.
• SR/Institute's Software Quality HotList, http://www.soft.com/Institute/HotList/ contains many links to web sites with software quality/testing information
• The Software Quality Page http://www.swquality.com/users/pustaver/index.shtml contains links to software quality resources

Other Sites

• The Irish National Software Directorate (part of Enterprise Ireland now called Informatics) http://www.nsd.ie
• The British Computer Society http://www.bcs.org.uk - information on the ISEB Software Testing qualification can be found at http://www.bcs.org.uk/iseb/st.htm
• The Irish Computer Society http://www.ics.ie — society for ICT professionals
• The Irish Software Association http://www.software.ie — corporate membership based association running events and linked to IBEC
• The Centre for Software Engineering http://www.cse.dcu.ie — primarily a commercial organisation providing services to smaller organisations and running the CSE Software Engineering Conference. Useful case studies from EU Projects most notably SPIRE — check out the SPIRE handbook.
• The ESPI Foundation who promote SPI in Europe and run the excellent European SEPG conference in Amsterdam each year http://www.espi.co.uk
• The EuroSTAR software testing conference organisers http://www.testingconferences.com