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The Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...

's Special Interest Group on Software Engineering provides a forum for computing professionals from industry, government and academia to examine principles, practices, and new research results in software engineering
Software engineering
Software Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software...

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SIGSOFT focuses on issues related to all aspects of software development and maintenance, with emphasis on requirements, specification and design, software architecture, validation, verification, debugging, software safety, software processes, software management, measurement, user interfaces, configuration management, software engineering environments, and CASE tools.

SIGSOFT sponsors conferences and symposia including the International Conference on Software Engineering
International Conference on Software Engineering
The International Conference on Software Engineering , is one of the largest annual software engineering conferences. The first ICSE conference was in 1975 in Washington DC.-List of Conferences:Past and future ICSE conferences include:...

(ICSE), the International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) and other events.

SIGSOFT publishes the informal bimonthly newsletter Software Engineering Notes
Software Engineering Notes
The ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes is published by the Association for Computing Machinery for the Special Interest Group on Software Engineering . It provides a forum for informal articles and other information on software engineering.- External links :*...

(SEN) newsletter with papers, reports and other material related to the cost-effective, timely development and maintenance of high-quality software.

SIGSOFT's mission is to improve the ability to engineer software by stimulating interaction among practitioners, researchers, and educators; by fostering the professional development of software engineers; and by representing software engineers to professional, legal, and political entities.
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