The newest issue of CrossTalk is out. Although I normally post new issue announcements for this excellent magazine in Notes from the Field, the May issue is more in line with recent discussions here. The top articles in the May 2002 issue are:

1. Best Practices
• Online: Achieving CMMI Level 5 Improvements with MBASE and the CeBASE Method by Dr. Barry Boehm, Dr. Daniel Port, and Apurva Jain (download the article)
2. Software Engineering
• Online: What is Software Quality Assurance? by Dr. Linda H. Rosenberg (download the article)
• Online: Surviving the Top 10 Challenges of Software Test Automation by Randy Rice (download the article)

There is also an Open Forum article of interest titled Information Security System Rating and Ranking by Dr. Rayford B. Vaughn Jr., Ambareen Sira, and Dr. David A. Dampier. You can download this article for off-line reading.