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Cross, John
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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  Organized activity and its support by computer
Holt A., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 1998.  Type: Book (9780792347088)

The author describes this book as a hard read that is worth the effort. The good news and the bad news are that he is correct on both counts. The book is entirely devoted to philosophical insight. The author’s basic hypothesi...

Jul 1 1998  
  Writing with collaborative hypertext
Chen C. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 48(11): 1049-1066, 1997.  Type: Article

The author discusses the analysis and modeling of collaborative writing with the support of groupware. Chen presents a helpful summary of tools for collaborative writing, but the study is based on the tool called Multiple Users Creatin...

May 1 1998  
  Understanding groupware in the enterprise
Woodcock J., Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA, 1997.  Type: Book (9781572315617)

The goal of Microsoft’s Strategic Technology Series is to explain technology and technical terminology to busy professionals who may not have information technology backgrounds. Not surprisingly, this book has a strong Micros...

Feb 1 1998  
  Groupware
Coleman D. (ed), Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997.  Type: Book (9780137277285)

For this second edition, which appeared just 15 months after the first edition [1], the subtitle has been changed from technology and applications to collaborative strategies for corporate LANs and intranets. Given the su...

Feb 1 1998  
  Migration: a model for design by modification
Brück R.  Applied computing (, Indianapolis, IN, Feb 14-16, 1993) 761993.  Type: Proceedings

Brück presents his model for the migration of software artifacts as a form of evolution. The word “inheritance” does not appear in the paper, but migration is presented as a process that is more general tha...

Sep 1 1994  
  PIE: A Dynamic Failure-Based Technique
Voas J. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 18(8): 717-727, 1992.  Type: Article

The acronym PIE stands for propagation, infection, and execution, all with a focus on data state errors. This acronym is appropriate because the author’s technique is dynamic and contains features of both fault-based and mu...

Jun 1 1993  
  Testability of Software Components
Freedman R. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 17(6): 553-564, 1991.  Type: Article

The focus of this paper is on “domain testability.” The author defines this as the ease with which a program can be tested for input/output inconsistencies. Input consistency is the ability to derive an input that w...

Nov 1 1992  
  Programming: the derivation of algorithms
Kaldewaij A., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1990.  Type: Book (9780132041089)

In the “calculational style” of programming that is currently being promoted by Feijen, Dijkstra, Gries, and others, algorithms are derived from formal specifications, leading to programs that are correct by constru...

Aug 1 1991  
  Computer software
Fleer C. (ed), McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1990.  Type: Book (9789780070212275)

Fleer collates facts on advanced and emerging technologies in computer software from a US point of view. His attempt to document state-of-the-art technologies and related US policies is a worthwhile goal, but the book lacks breadth, de...

Feb 1 1991  
  Perturbation Techniques for Detecting Domain Errors
Zeil S. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 15(6): 737-746, 1989.  Type: Article

Domain errors cause execution of the wrong path through the program. This paper deals with software testing to detect faults within arithmetic expressions that lead to these errors. Zeil presents the context and terminology briefly but...

Dec 1 1990  
 
 
 
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