IEEE Software 's mission: To build the community of leading software practitioners

This bimonthly magazine delivers reliable, useful, leading-edge software development information to keep engineers and managers abreast of rapid technology change. The authority on translating software theory into practice, the magazine positions itself between pure research and pure practice, transferring ideas, methods, and experiences among researchers and engineers. Peer-reviewed articles and columns by real-world experts illuminate all aspects of the industry, including process improvement, project management, development tools, software maintenance, Web applications and opportunities, testing, usability, and much more.

Features

Technical articles are peer-reviewed carefully to ensure they offer practical and reliable ideas and techniques to readers. The departments cover most of the key concerns of software development: requirements, design, tools, quality, open source issues, and terminology. We also publish news analysis stories and book reviews.

Community

Software engineering experts in architecture and design, quality, project management, education, and requirements help guide the selection of what we publish. We have a lively column that challenges the status quo and stimulates debate in our letters to the editor. The magazine has been helping train newcomers to software engineering since 1984, as professors, project managers, and developers pass on articles for their colleagues and students to read.
Hakan Erdogmus, Editor in Chief

Hakan Erdogmus is a senior research officer at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada. He joined NRC's Institute for Information Technology in 1995, and since then has been a member of the Software Engineering Group.  He’s also an adjunct professor in the University of Calgary’s Computer Science Department, where he teaches graduate courses. Hakan’s current research interests center on software economics, process measurement, and evaluation of software development practices. He has previously worked on formal verification of concurrent programs and architectural formalisms. He coedited Advances in Software Engineering and Value-Based Software Engineering, both published by Springer.

Hakan is the 2003 recipient of the Eugene L. Grant Award in Engineering Economy from the American Society for Engineering Education. He obtained his PhD in telecommunications engineering from Université du Québec’s Institut national de la recherche scientifique. He holds an MSc in computer science from McGill University, and a BSc in computer engineering from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. Hakan is a member of the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, and the ACM. Contact him at hakanerdogmus at computer dot org

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