SE for Compliance
May/June 2012
This special issue of IEEE Software explores the challenges in developing compliant software systems. Typically, organizations face conflicting objectives, with compliance policies possibly hindering innovation, slowing down the product development process, or making the whole process most costly. The goal of software engineering for compliance is to bridge the gap between the software engineering community and the compliance community. The articles in this special issue explain the nature and extent of this domain from different viewpoints, the technical challenges it poses, novel software engineering methods for supporting compliance, and the current state of the art. Read full article »
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Articles from IEEE Software
Technology Transfer: A Software Security Marketplace Case Study
HP's acquisition of source code analysis tool vendor Fortify in September 2010 marks an important milestone in a decade-long technology transfer story that begins with a federal research grant and ends with a worldwide technology provider with global reach. Read full article »
Software as a Business
Many new business models for software-intensive enterprises have arisen in the last decade, ranging from selling software as a service to offshoring and crowdsourcing. Read full article »
To Pay or Not to Pay Technical Debt
Pragmatic architects approach technical debt — when to incur it, and whether, when, and how to retire it — from a strictly business perspective. Read full article »
All Late Projects Are the Same
What's really wrong with software folks is that they're continually beating themselves up for something that's somebody else's fault. Read full article »
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