The

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional member ...

'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 is a systematic engineering approach to software development. A software engineer is a person who applies the principles of software engineering to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate computer software. The term '' ...

. SIGSOFT focuses on issues related to all aspects of software development and maintenance, with emphasis on requirements, specification and design,

software architecture Software architecture is the fundamental structure of a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. Each structure comprises software elements, relations among them, and properties of both elements and relations. ...

, validation, verification,

debugging In computer programming and software development, debugging is the process of finding and resolving '' bugs'' (defects or problems that prevent correct operation) within computer programs, software, or systems. Debugging tactics can involve in ...

, software safety, software processes, software management, measurement, user interfaces, configuration management, software engineering environments, and CASE tools. SIGSOFT (co-)sponsors conferences and symposia including the ''

International Conference on Software Engineering The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), is one of the largest annual software engineering conferences. It has an 'A*' rating in thRankingsof thComputing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE)and an 'A1' rat ...

'' (ICSE), the ''ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering'' (ESEC/FSE) and other events. SIGSOFT publishes the informal bimonthly newsletter ''

Software Engineering Notes The ACM SIGSOFT ''Software Engineering Notes'' (SEN) is published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for the ''Special Interest Group on Software Engineering'' (SIGSOFT). It was established in 1976, and the first issue appeared in M ...

'' (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.
ACM SIGSOFT mission statement
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