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{{Short description|ACM's Special Interest Group on Software Engineering}}
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{{Infobox Organization
| name = ACM SIGSOFT
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| formation = 1976
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| products = [[Software development]]
| key_people = [http://www.sigsoft.org/about/execComm.htm Executive Committee]
| website = [http://www.sigsoft.org/ www.sigsoft.org]
}}

The [[Association for Computing Machinery]]'s<ref>''[http://www.acm.org/ Association for Computing Machinery], ACM.''</ref> Special Interest Group on Software Engineering<ref>''[http://www.sigsoft.org/ ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering], SIGSOFT.''</ref><ref>''[http://historywiki.acm.org/sigs/SIGSOFT History of ACM SIGSOFT].''</ref>  provides a forum for computing professionals from industry, government and academia to examine principles, practices, and new research results in software engineering. 

SIGSOFT focuses on issues related to all aspects of software development and maintenance, with emphasis on requirements, specification and design, [[software architecture]], validation, verification, [[debugging]], software safety, software processes, software management, measurement, user interfaces, configuration management, software engineering environments, and CASE tools.

SIGSOFT (co-)sponsors conferences and symposia including the ''[[International Conference on Software Engineering]]'' (ICSE),<ref>''[http://www.icse-conferences.org/ International Conference on Software Engineering], ICSE.''</ref> the ''ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering'' (ESEC/FSE)<ref>''[http://historywiki.acm.org/sigs/SIGSOFT-FSE ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering], FSE History.''</ref><ref>''[http://www.sigsoft.org/conferences/pastEvents.htm Past and Upcoming International Symposia on the Foundations of Software Engineering], FSE.''</ref><ref>''[http://www.esec-fse.org/ European Software Engineering Conference / International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering], ESEC-FSE.''</ref> and other events.<ref>''[http://www.sigsoft.org/conferences/listOfEvents.htm Events sponsored or co-sponsored by SIGSOFT]''</ref>

SIGSOFT publishes the informal bimonthly newsletter ''[[Software Engineering Notes]]'' (SEN) newsletter<ref>''[http://www.sigsoft.org/SEN/ Software Engineering Notes], SEN homepage''.</ref><ref>''[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728 ACM Digital Library], SEN issues''.</ref> with papers, reports and other material related to the cost-effective, timely development and maintenance of high-quality software.

SIGSOFT's mission is to improve the ability to engineer software by stimulating interaction among practitioners, researchers, and educators; by fostering the professional development of software engineers; and by representing software engineers to professional, legal, and political entities.<ref>''[http://www.sigsoft.org/ ACM SIGSOFT mission statement]''</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.sigsoft.org/ SIGSOFT website]
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