Software Metrics for Ada.

Abstract

The investigators monitored a software development project written in Ada by integrating measurement into the software development process. Their goal is to identify areas of success and difficulty in learning and using Ada as a design and coding language. The underlying process and the evolving product are measured, and the resulting information characterizes this project's successes and failures. It may be used to make recommendations about training, methodology, and metrics to the Ada users community. This experience with data collection and metrics will aid in the selection of a general set of measures and measurement procedures for any software development project. The project studied involved the redesign and reimplementation, at the General Electric Company, of a portion of a satellite ground control system originally written in FORTRAN.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 03, 1986
Accession Number
ADA165321

Entities

People

  • Victor Basili

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Engineering
  • Language
  • Learning
  • Measurement
  • Metrics
  • New Mexico
  • Software Development
  • Software Metrics
  • Software Testing
  • Technology Transfer
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space