Some Conclusions from an Experiment in Software Engineering Techniques,

Abstract

The paper describes the outcome of a small experiment to test the validity of some proposed software engineering techniques. The experiments showed that it was possible to combine the work of many programmers to produce systems which could exist in many versions. Major changes in the system's implementation could be made by replacing well defined small subsets of the system. The experiment seems to support (1) the validity of the techniques being tested and (2) some new conclusions about project management and the focusing of effort in software projects. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0759249

Entities

People

  • David L. Parnas

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Engineering
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Project Management
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Systems Management

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Software Engineering.