Software State of the Art: Selected Papers

Concerned as we are about information anxiety and about possible deformation of tectonic plates due to the accumulation of unread Datamations and Computerworlds, we decided to search through the tons of software literature published over the last ten years and select the good stuff. Hence this collection, We can't guarantee that it includes every single paper worth reading from the eighties, but we claim it is close. Do yourself a huge favor: Read these thirty-one papers and throw out all the stacks of unread material dating back as far as 1980. You'll feel better immediately. The selected papers have been grouped into four subsets, represented by parts I through IV of the book. The four parts entitled: I Management II Measurement III Methods IV News from Left Field