Additional Candidate Term Papers Topics

Analyze summer internship DR reports for best practices, industry weak spots, spiral model variants and invariants.

Use various sources of information (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau, ACM Tech News, other web sites) to complete a statistical summary of the software industry (revenues, costs, labor force, productivity, quality, ...).

Do a comparative analysis of software defect reduction strategies (prevention vs. detection; reviews vs. tools vs. testing, etc.)

Compare MBASE practices with the practices in IEEE/EIA 12207 standard on software life cycle practices.