Monitoring an Ada Software Development,

Abstract

This newsletter is the second in a series describing a collaborative effort by research teams from General Electric and the University of Maryland. The purpose of this research effort is to monitor the use of Ada on a realistically large and complex software development project within industry. In particular, we are interested in investigating areas of success and areas of difficulty in designing and coding with Ada so that proper emphasis will be placed upon these areas in future Ada training courses. We are also interested in identifying metrics that are useful for evaluating and predicting the complexity, quality, or cost of Ada programs. This newsletter briefly describes our approach to data collection follwed by a description of the software development project that we are monitoring. We then address several central issues related to the use of Ada in the design phase of this project.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA165331

Entities

People

  • Elizabeth Katz
  • Jennifer M. Bailey
  • John Gannon
  • Marvin Zelkowitz
  • Victor Basili

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Assembly Languages
  • Communication Satellites
  • Computer Programming
  • Engineering
  • High Level Languages
  • Language
  • Maryland
  • Measurement
  • Monitoring
  • Programming Languages
  • Reliability
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Space Systems
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.