ON LINE TRAINING AND REFERENCE OVERVIEW

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C&A Creates an On Line Training and Reference Resource

As a service to our client community C&A is currently web enabling all our software engineering training materials. We are also significantly expanding their content with highly prescriptive guides to performing software development tasks. By accessing our web site you will soon be able to get help on everything from writing requirements specifications to developing test plans. Our purpose is to enhance your specification and development skills by providing you with concepts, tools and techniques that you can apply to common development tasks; and to put this information online at your desk.

What Will be On Line?

C&A's Software Engineering Web will provide you with many of the essential components of the body of knowledge required to specify and develop software. Our on line components will include:
Software development process descriptions
Work product standards
Concept descriptions
Glossary of terms and references
All designed to improve your productivity with instantaneous access, at your desk, to information you can apply to your every day tasks.

How We Structure Information

All our information is formatted to help you achieve a result. A result is usually a physical deliverable, be it a project plan, a system model, a design document or a code module.

We've boiled down the endless maw of software industry waffle to what you need to know to get the job done.

Sample Components

To illustrate our approach here are some fragments of our on line components. Please note that you must view them with a frame enabled browser. We also suggest you minimize the left hand side bar on your screen to get a larger working space.

Concepts	The work breakdown structure is an invaluable tool for planning a project. You need to understand the concept of proxy based estimating to estimate software size early in a project. An understanding of the concept of inheritance is essential to building an object model. If you understand the concepts behind life cycle models you can create a custom software development strategy for any project using out Life Cycle Builder Tool.
Procedures	Object Model Builder takes you through the process of building an object oriented model using Rumbaugh's Object Modeling Technique.
Standards	Our standards can be down loaded and used in your work products. They provide detailed descriptions of the format and content of common deliverables such as: concept of operations documents software requirements specifications design documents test plans
References	If you need to read further our reference section lists the classic texts, periodicals and standards of software development, most of which are available through Internet based book stores such as Amazon Books. We also include reviews with important references. For example, Al Davis' book on software requirements specification [26].
Glossary	The glossary defines terms used throughout the software engineering web.

Accessing Components

You will be able to access our Software Engineering Web training and reference materials either by subscribing to this site or by selective purchase and download of low cost E-books on specific subjects of interest.

A subscription will give you unlimited access to the complete web. This will give you the benefit of:
	The ever expanding body of knowledge that will continue to be loaded onto the web from now to infinity and beyond
	Updates to existing materials
	Case studies from real world projects
	Unlimited download of any web page
	The ability to influence the type of content what is loaded onto the web
	The ability to get answers to questions on web content from a knowledgeable software engineer

Join Our Community

By subscribing you will be joining a community of software developers. Our objective is to make our community productive by facilitating communication between community members. We get around. So if you are looking for someone with some industrial strength experience with a particular language, tool, product or development approach we may be able to help. Contact us!

Work in Progress

C&A is currently working on web enabling our project management and requirements definition processes. The remainder identified in Table 1 will follow as time permits.

Table 1. Software development processes to be web enabled by C&A.

Software Engineering Web
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