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Impact Factor News

IET Software's Impact Factor increased by 20% to 0.620 in 2010.

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

  • Automation of Software Test
  • Social Semantic Web Support for Software Development – Call for Papers

Published Special Issues

Featured Paper

Component co-evolution and component dependency: speculations and verifications, Vol.4, No.4, p.252–267

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

Online subscribers to IET Software can access all backfile issues from 2007 onwards as well as all issues of IEE Proceedings Software from 1997-2006 as part of their current online subscription.