The IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering is an archival journal published monthly. We are interested in well-defined theoretical results and empirical studies that have potential impact on the construction, analysis, or management of software. The scope of this Transactions ranges from the mechanisms through the development of principles to the application of those principles to specific environments. Since the journal is archival, it is assumed that the ideas presented are important, have been well analyzed, and/or empirically validated and are of value to the software engineering research or practitioner community. Specific topic areas include: a) development and maintenance methods and models, e.g., techniques and principles for the specification, design, and implementation of software systems, including notations and process models; b) assessment methods, e.g., software tests and validation, reliability models, test and diagnosis procedures, software redundancy and design for error control, and the measurements and evaluation of various aspects of the process and product; c) software project management, e.g., productivity factors, cost models, schedule and organizational issues, standards; d) tools and environments, e.g., specific tools, integrated tool environments including the associated architectures, databases, and parallel and distributed processing issues; e) system issues, e.g., hardware-software trade-off; and f) state-of-the-art surveys that provide a synthesis and comprehensive review of the historical development of one particular area of interest.

IEEE軟件工程學(xué)報(bào)是一本每月出版一次的檔案期刊。我們感興趣的是定義良好的理論結(jié)果和經(jīng)驗(yàn)研究，它們對(duì)軟件的構(gòu)建、分析或管理具有潛在的影響。該事務(wù)的范圍從開發(fā)原則的機(jī)制到將這些原則應(yīng)用到特定環(huán)境。由于該期刊是歸檔的，所以假定所提出的思想是重要的，經(jīng)過了很好的分析，并且/或者經(jīng)過了經(jīng)驗(yàn)驗(yàn)證，并且對(duì)軟件工程研究或者實(shí)踐者社區(qū)有價(jià)值。具體的主題領(lǐng)域包括：a)開發(fā)和維護(hù)方法和模型，例如，軟件系統(tǒng)規(guī)范、設(shè)計(jì)和實(shí)現(xiàn)的技術(shù)和原則，包括符號(hào)和過程模型；b)評(píng)估方法，如軟件測(cè)試和驗(yàn)證、可靠性模型、測(cè)試和診斷程序、軟件冗余和錯(cuò)誤控制設(shè)計(jì)，以及過程和產(chǎn)品各方面的測(cè)量和評(píng)估；c)軟件項(xiàng)目管理，如生產(chǎn)力因素、成本模型、進(jìn)度和組織問題、標(biāo)準(zhǔn)；d)工具和環(huán)境，例如特定的工具、集成的工具環(huán)境，包括相關(guān)的體系結(jié)構(gòu)、數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)以及并行和分布式處理問題；e)系統(tǒng)問題，如軟硬件權(quán)衡；f)對(duì)某一特定興趣領(lǐng)域的歷史發(fā)展進(jìn)行綜合和全面審查的最先進(jìn)的調(diào)查。