TSE celebrates its 35th anniversary!

We asked editorial board members to reflect on TSE's past 35 years. Below is what they had to say. You can add your comments on TSE’s anniversary on the TSE message board.

“Thirty-five years and counting of demystifying the process of software--here’s to many more.”

—Patrick McDaniel, Associate Editor

“Congratulations to the 35th birthday of TSE. TSE has been playing a leading role in archiving the finest work on software engineering. I look forward to seeing the continued success of TSE.”

—Shing-Chi Cheung

“ Is it really 35 years?! Over the years, I've been a reader, an author, a reviewer, and an Associate Editor, and having seen it from all these perspectives, I've no hesitation in saying I think it's the world's best SE journal. Long may it continue—although I don't think I'll be around to celebrate its next 35 years...”

—Bev Littlewood
Professor of Software Engineering,
City University, London

“ My scientific career matured with the support of my IEEE TSE readings. I was interested in Petri nets and performance evaluation and TSE was the place where theory and applications met. Some of the best papers on Timed and Stochastic Petri nets have been published, over the years, in TSE. I just want to recall two papers that I worked on "line by line" as a young researcher: "The Effect of Execution Policies on the Semantics and Analysis of Stochastic Petri Nets" by Ajmone et al. and "Modeling and Verification of Time Dependent Systems Using Time Petri Nets" by Berthomieu and Diaz. Even though I am a bit older now, TSE is still my ideal professional companion, with many papers on the cutting edge between performance evaluation, software engineering, and system verification.”

—Professor Susanna Donatelli
Università degli Studi di Torino

“TSE has been the top journal in Software Engineering since its inception. When I graduated from the University of Bonn in Germany and began my career as a young researcher in this field, TSE was already well established and had all the most interesting articles: whether on verification of assemblers and compilers— in those early days—on concurrency, testing, modularity, extensibility, or contractibility of software. Over the decades that followed, TSE has accompanied software engineering researchers, practitioners, and teachers alike, with most relevant articles on software process and the latest theoretical, experimental, and empirical research in software models, methods, and tools.

Over the past couple of years, I have also had the fortune to see TSE from the "inside". It has been most rewarding for me to be associated with TSE as an editor and work with the large and growing number of experts, TSE reviewers, and authors around the world. What a privilege!

Congratulations TSE on your first 35 years!”

—Professor Heinz Schmidt,
RMIT University, Melbourne

“It has been such a privilege to be associated with TSE for over 15 years— as an author, as a guest editor, and currently as an associate editor. The journal's reputation for quality and rigor is well known, but it is a particular pleasure to see the journal scholarly processes at work from such close quarters. TSE: here's to the next 35 years!”

—Professor Bashar Nuseibeh
Director of Research in Computing, The Open University, UK,
and Chair of the Steering Committee of ICSE

“Congratulations. IEEE TSE shows, every issue, the advance of software engineering and contributes to shaping our discipline and the profession.”

—Anthony Finkelstein, Professor of Software Systems Engineering, UCL

“Congratulations to TSE on its 35th anniversary. Best wishes for its continuing success!!”

—Joanne M. Atlee, University of Waterloo

“TSE has been publishing software engineering research contributions and results for 35 years! It was inspiring to read the early seminal papers such as ‘On the Design and Development of Program Families’ by David Parnas, and ‘Programming-in-the-Large Versus Programming-in-the-Small’ by DeRemer and Kron, as well as papers by David Gries, Harlan Mills, Maurice Wilkes, Barbara Liskov, Leslie Lamport, Donald Knuth, and many other pioneers in software engineering. TSE is the journal of choice, and my colleagues and I are proud to have had a few of our papers accepted for publication in TSE over the years. It is an honor to be associated with TSE, both as an author and as Editor-in-Chief, and a pleasure to work with the professionals in the field who agreed to join my editorial board. Happy 35th Birthday TSE!”

—Jeff Kramer, Editor-in-Chief

“Congratulations on your 35th anniversary! I started working on software engineering around 1977 and TSE at that time had already established itself as ‘the journal’ of the field. Looking forward to your 50th anniversary.”

—Tetsuo Tamai Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The University of Tokyo

“For 35 years, TSE has been the foremost world leading journal, championing Software Engineering from the early dark days when many respected commentators seriously questioned whether there even was such a thing as Software Engineering, to the present, where the well-established field of Software Engineering underpins the fabric of daily life and the critical infrastructure that supports and protects us. With the increasing breadth and depth of the software skin that envelops the globe on which we all travel, who knows what developments the next 35 years will bring? Certainly, the place to find the most authoritative answers will be IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. Happy 35th birthday to the much-loved friend and most valued colleague that is TSE.”

—Professor Mark Harman, Director of CREST, King's College London.