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ing important new work. Additional software engineering research is conducted by
the Software Productivity Consortium.
A wide variety of software engineering standards and procedures have been pub-
lished over the past decade. The IEEE Software Engineering Standards contains stan-
dards that cover almost every important aspect of the technology. ISO 9000-3
guidelines provide guidance for software organizations that require registration to
the ISO 9001 quality standard. Other software engineering standards can be obtained
from the Department of Defense, the FAA, and other government and nonprofit
agencies. Fairclough (Software Engineering Guides, Prentice-Hall, 1996) provides a
detailed reference to software engineering standards produced by the European Space
Agency (ESA).
A wide variety of information sources on software engineering and the software
process is available on the Internet. An up-to-date list of World Wide Web references
that are relevant to the software process can be found at the SEPA Web site:
http://www.mhhe.com/engcs/compsci/pressman/resources/process.mhtml