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The DoD Journal of Software Technology (JOST) is published quarterly by the Data & Analysis Center for Software (DACS).
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The DACS is a DoD s sponsored Information Analysis Center (IAC), administratively managed by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) under the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

The DACS is technically managed by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Rome, NY and operated by Quanterion Solutions Incorporated.

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Agile - Latest Developments

This month's feature articles in Agile:

What's All This Agile Stuff About, Anyway? - This is the theme of the Information Systems Summit II which will be convened by NDIA, with support from Software Quality Engineering, as a forum to learn and, subsequently, adapt from world-class agile commercial practitioners applicable procedures to rapidly acquire DoD information technology embellished solutions to meet warfighter needs. The goal of this Conference is to understand and accelerate the adaption of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development within DoD.

Jouranl of Software Technology Latest E-News

A Peek inside

Agile - Latest Developments

This month's feature articles in Agile:

Journal of Software Technology Enews

E-News 1: Cleanroom

E-News 2: Year 2000

E-News 3: Software Inspection

E-News 4: Software Measurement

E-News 5: Software Reliability

E-News 6: Software Risk Management

E-News 7: Software Quality Assurance

E-News 8: Software News Items

E-News 9: Software News Items

E-News 10: Software News Items

E-News 11: Software News Items

E-News 12: Software News Items

E-News 13: Software News Items

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Submitting Articles:

The Journal of Software Technology is a theme-based quarterly journal. In the past DACS has typically solicited specific authors to participate in developing each theme, but we recognize that it is not possible for us to know about all the experts, programs, and work being done and we may be missing some important contributions. Therefore, beginning in 2009 DACS is adopting a policy of accepting articles submitted by the software professional community for consideration.

D ACS will review articles and assist candidate authors in creating the final draft if the article is selected for publication. Note that DACS does not pay for articles published. Note also that submittal of an article constitutes a transfer of ownership from the author to DACS with DACS holding the copyright. See below for Copyright details.

Although the Journal of Software Technology is theme-based, we do not limit the content of the issue strictly to that theme. If you submit an article that DACS deems to be worthy of sharing with the community DACS will find a way to get it published. However, we cannot guarantee publication within a fixed time frame in that situation. Consult the theme selection page on the Journal of Software Technology web site for theme details.

The Journal of Software Technology enjoys a reputation of outstanding quality and value. The Journal of Software Technology is distributed to more than 7000 registered DACS patrons free of charge and is publish on the DACS website where thousands of viewers read the articles each week.

Author Bios and Contact Information

When you submit your article to DACS, you also need to submitt a brief bio, which is printed at the end of your article. Additionally, DACS requests that you provide contact information (email and/or phone and/or web address) which is also published with your article so that readers may follow up with you. You also need to send DACS your preferred mailing address for receipt of the Journal of Software Technology in printed format. All authors receive 5 complementary copies of the Journal of Software Technology issue in which their article appears and are automatically registered to receive future issues of Journal of Software Technology. Up to 20 additional copies may be requested by the author at no cost.

Submitt articles, images, bios and contact information to news-editor@thedacs.com

Further details are given in the Journal of Software Technology Author Guidelines . [Click here] to download the PDF file.

Copyright:

Submittal of an original and previously unpublished article constitutes a transfer of ownership for First Publication Rights for a period of ninety days following publication. After this ninety day period full copyright ownership returns to the author. DACS always grants permission to reprint or distribute the article once published, as long as attribution is provided for DACS as the publisher and the Journal issue in which the article appeared is cited. The primary reason for DACS holding the copyright is to insure that the same article is not published simultaneously in other trade journals. The Journal enjoys a reputation of outstanding quality and value. We distribute the Journal to more than 17,000 registered DACS patrons free of charge and we publish it on our website where thousands of viewers read the articles each week.

DACS always grants permission to reprint or distribute the article once published, as long as attribution is provided for DACS as the publisher and the Journal of Software Technology issue in which the article appeared is cited. The primary reason for DACS holding the copyright is to insure that the same article is not published simultaneously in other trade journals.