Responsiveness and Configuration Control for Embedded Computer Software.
Abstract
The purpose of this research effort was to (1) determine those factors contributing to the inability of the Air Force Logistics Command (AFLC) to provide responsive support to Embedded Computer Software users which has the appropriate degree of control exercised and (2) determine the management systems structure and factors required to provide responsive support of controlled software. The research has three phases. The first is a discussion of software management principles essential to effective software management. The second is comprised of models of three distinct management systems and analyses each of terms of benefits, deficiencies, operating policy, application of software management principles, and provides comparative conclusions on which aspects of a management system were the best. The third is an analysis of the results of the interaction of the software management principles and a management system and discusses those principles of relative importance to a management system processing stage. Conclusions developed were that responsiveness problems experienced in AFLC were attributable to its utilization of change blocking, the G026 management system, and its management system's structure. Recommendations were that ECS requirements should take priority, minimal management layering should exist, and explicit responsibility and authority delineation is defined. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1980
- Accession Number
- ADA088723
Entities
People
- Gerald O. Wade
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology