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Impact Factor News

IET Software's Impact Factor increases by 26.3% to 0.543*!

*Figure based on cites in 2008 to IEE Proc. SEN (2006) and IET SEN (2007)

Scope

IET Software publishes papers on all aspects of the software lifecycle, including design, development, implementation and maintenance. The focus of the journal is on the methods used to develop and maintain software, and their practical application. Authors are especially encouraged to submit papers on the following topics, although papers on all aspects of software engineering are welcome:

• Software and systems requirements engineering
• Formal methods, design methods, practice and experience
• Software architecture, aspect and object orientation, reuse and re-engineering
• Testing, verification and validation techniques
• Software dependability and measurement
• Human systems engineering and human-computer interaction
• Knowledge engineering; expert and knowledge-based systems, intelligent agents
• Information systems engineering
• Application of software engineering in industry and commerce
• Software engineering technology transfer
• Management of software development
• Theoretical aspects of software development
• Education and training, including continuing professional development

Forthcoming Special Issues

• Automated Techniques for Compositional Verification - Call for Papers

Published Special Issues

• Special Issue on Performance Engineering - Volume 3, Number 6, December 2009
• Selected Papers from EASE 2008 - Volume 3, Number 5, October 2009
• Domain Specific Aspect Languages - Volume 3, Number 3, June 2009
• Selected papers from 2007 Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering - Volume 3, Number 2, April 2009

Featured Paper

Performance prediction and procurement in practice: assessing the suitability of commodity cluster components for wavefront codes, Vol.3, No.6, p.509–521

Author and Reader Benefits

• Worldwide readership and database coverage (including ISI and Inspec)
• Rapid times to decision (typically less than 16 weeks)
• No page charges to authors
• Review/survey papers now freely available on the IET Digital Library for 2 years from publication
• All content also available via the IEEE Xplore digital library

IET Research Journals are available online (in advance of printed publication) via the IET Digital Library. To access the full-text of articles for this journal, you will need a valid subscription, or you can purchase individual articles by clicking the 'Buy This PDF' link on the article abstract page.

Citing this Journal

IET Software is usually cited by the abbreviated title 'IET Softw.' Every article in this journal is assigned a Crossref DOI, which is displayed on the article abstract page.

Previous Title

IET Software was previously published as IEE Proceedings Software. Following the merger on March 31st 2006 between the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers) and the IIE (The Institution of Incorporated Engineers) to form the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the IEE Proceedings suite of journals changed name at the beginning of 2007 to reflect the fact that they were now published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. IET Software starts from Volume 1, Issue 1 from February 2007 onwards. All other benefits of publishing in the journal, including our worldwide readership and database coverage, remain unchanged.

Online subscribers to IET Software can also access all backfile issues of IEE Proceedings Software from 1997-2006 as part of their current online subscription.