STSC CrossTalk - January 2008 Issue

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		January 2008

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Policies, News, and Updates

Announcing CrossTalk’s Co-Sponsor Team for 2008 (

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by Elizabeth Starrett
Meet CrossTalk’s 2008 co-sponsors.

The 2008 Editorial Board (

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by Elizabeth Starrett
Here is a list of CrossTalk’s article reviewers.

Training and Education

The Critical Need for Software Engineering Education (

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by Dr. Lyle N. Long
Long describes the need for more dedicated software engineering educational programs and professional software engineering certification programs in the United States.

Using Inspections to Teach Requirements Validation (

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by Lulu He, Dr. Jeffrey C. Carver, and Dr. Rayford B. Vaughn
This article describes an experiment conducted in a graduate-level requirements engineering course to provide students a real world experience in requirements validation.

Integrating Software Assurance Knowledge Into Conventional Curricula (

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by Dr. Nancy R. Mead, Dr. Dan Shoemaker, and Jeffrey A. Ingalsbe
This article discusses the results of a comparison of the Common Body of Knowledge for Secure Software Assurance with traditional computing disciplines.

Software Engineering Continuing Education at a Price You Can Afford (

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by Maj Christopher Bohn, Ph.D.
Maj. Bohn gives detailed information about the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Software Professional Development Program.

Software Engineering Technology

How to Avoid Software Inspection Failure and Achieve Ongoing Benefits (

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by Roger Stewart and Lew Priven
This article describes the proven benefits of inspections and signifies that they are too significant to let them fall by the wayside.

Open Forum>

Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow? (

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by Dr. Robert B.K. Dewar and Dr. Edmond Schonberg
This article briefly examines the set of programming skills that should be part of every software professional’s repertoire.

Departments

From the Sponsor	( PDF 66KB)
Coming Events	( PDF 37KB)
Letter to the Editor	( PDF 35KB)
SSTC 2008	( PDF 256KB)

BackTalk	( PDF 48KB)
Back Cover	( PDF 412KB)

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