Preliminary Program Manager's Guide to Ada.

Abstract

This draft guide provides current information that should help a Program Manager in making decisions relative to the use of Ada. It discusses pertinent Air Force and DoD policy, effects of Ada on contractual documentation, and steps that must be taken to apply Ada. This guide identifies benefits and inherent risks of using Ada, and Program Office initiatives needed to control risk. It cites factors that will affect programmer training, software cost and schedule estimation, design, and configuration management. As background information, the basic features of Ada and the software needed to support programming in Ada are described. The guide will be issued after review. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA140347

Entities

People

  • E. C. Grund
  • R. F. Hilliard Ii
  • R. G. Howe
  • R. G. Munck
  • W. E. Byrne

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Compilers
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Configuration Management
  • Debugging
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Machine Languages
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Software Development Tools
  • Software Testing
  • System Software
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Software Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design