SEIC News Briefs, W/E April 18, 1997

SEIC News Briefs, W/E April 18, 1997

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Software Engineering News Briefs
Week Ending:  April 18, 1997

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NEW ADA BOOK AVAILABLE
Topic: Ada

A new book on Ada 95, "Ada 95:  The Lovelace Tutorial," has been 
released.  This book explains the basics of the Ada computer programming 
language and assumes that the reader has had some exposure to some other 
algorithmic programming language (such as Pascal, C, C++, Fortran, or BASIC).

"Ada 95:  The Lovelace Tutorial" (ISBN 0-387-948-01-5), is written by 
David A. Wheeler, and is published by Springer-Verlag 
<http://www.springer-ny.com/>.

For more information, contact David A. Wheeler at:  
<mailto:dwheeler@ida.org>.

SOURCE:  David A. Wheeler.

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ICSR5 CALL FOR PAPERS
Topic:  Reuse

The Fifth International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR5), to be held  
June 2-5, 1998 in Victoria, BC, Canada, has announced a call for papers.  
The conference theme, "Putting the Pieces Together," addresses the 
traditional question of how to create, index, retrieve, evaluate, 
interconnect, integrate, and test reusable components for all aspects of 
the software lifecycle.  For a list of suggested topics and further 
instructions, visit the ICSR5 WWW site at:  <http://www.cs.vt.edu/icsr5>.

Submissions are due Oct. 1, 1997, acceptances will be announced Jan. 23, 
1998, and camera-ready copies will be due Feb. 20, 1998.  Submissions 
should be sent to:  Jeffrey S. Poulin, Co-Chair, Advance Technology, 
Lockheed Martin Federal Systems, MS 0210, Owego, NY 13827, USA, 
mailto:Jeffrey.Poulin@lmco.com; http://www.owego.com/~poulinj/.

SOURCE:  Stephen Edwards, edwards@cs.vt.edu.

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DDC-I ANNOUNCES NEW TOOL FOR ADA SYSTEMS
Topic: Ada

DDC-I, a supplier of highly optimized Ada development systems for embedded 
real-time applications, recently announced a package of Ada software 
test tools offering test automation and increased productivity.  

DACS OBJECT COVERAGE from DDC-I provides test coverage of Ada program 
modules relating to modified condition and decision coverage on an object 
code level.

For more information, contact:

Jennifer Sanchez, DDC-I, Inc.
400 N. 5th Street
Phoenix, AZ 85004
TEL:  602/275-7172
FAX:  602/252-6054
http://www.ddci.com/

SOURCE:  DDC-I Press Release, March 24, 1997.

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RIAT SPONSORS SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES WORKSHOP
Topic:  Reuse

The Reuse Issues Action Team (RIAT) of the ACM SIGAda Reuse Working Group 
is sponsoring the workshop Software Architectures in Product Line 
Acquisitions:  Engineering or Witchcraft?  The workshop will be held in 
Salem, MA, June 10-12, 1997.  The workshop will examine how a software 
architecture can reduce costs and shorten delivery times, and will focus 
on business issues and approaches for using architectures in product line 
acquisitions.

The workshop is intended for professionals in government and industry 
pioneering the use of software architectures in product line acquisitions.

For registration information, tel: 412/268-7388; e-mail: 
mailto:registration@sei.cmu.edu; Internet:  
http://columbia.ivv.nasa.gov:6600/riat/

-or write-

Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
15213-3890

SOURCE:  RIAT call for Workshop Participation.

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ADA 95 AND CORBA:  PERFECT TOGETHER
Topic: Ada

Ed Seidewitz, in his article "Ada 95, CORBA, and More!" found in the 
March 1997 issue of Distributed Object Computing, discusses the many 
advantages of using CORBA with Ada 95:  the only O-O language that has 
both an approved mapping to CORBA and an international standard.

Seidewitz declares that Ada 95's features help to shatter past stereotypes 
of the language, and prove that Ada 95 is a player from CORBA to DSA to 
Java. 

Ed Seidewitz can be contacted at:  mailto:seidewitz@dhr.com

SOURCE:  Seidewitz, Ed, "Ada 95, CORBA, and More! Distributed Object 
Computing, March 1997, v1, n2, pp 35-40.

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