Software engineering standards developers and users met during September 1994 to develop and initiate an international Action Plan for standards development. The IEEE-sponsored Software Engineering Standards Forum brought together representatives from the international software standards community to examine crucial issues and influence the future direction of software engineering standards. The impetus for the workshop was the observation by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE)'s Software Engineering Committee that there is an overabundance of software engineering standards appearing in both the U.S. and abroad without a concerted plan.

The workshop consisted of a series of panels that addressed the quality of software engineering standards, standards characteristics and acceptance, U.S. Government use of commercial standards, the need to develop an integrated set of standards, compliance criteria and conformance to standards, and systems engineering issues. The primary goal of the workshop was to produce an Action Plan. Organizations such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) are expected to play a major role in implementing the plan.

The second Software Engineering Standards Forum is scheduled for August 1995, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Second International Symposium on Software Engineering Standards (ISSES '95).

Additional information on this effort is available from the following contacts:

Forum Action Plan
Dierdre Bagley or John Parisi
(908) 562-3814, [email protected]

IEEE Standards Department
445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331
Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331

Second Software Engineering Standards Forum
Thomas Hannan
(703) 556-6518, FAX (703) 556-9290
Dennis Ahern, Program Chair
(410) 993-6234, FA410)765-4400

ISSES '95
Joseph Cote
(613) 957-2496, FAX (613) 957-8700
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