Software Tool Selection for a U.S. Navy Software Maintenance Organization.

Abstract

Software tools have been in existence for a number of years. Software environments, or how well software tools work together, has been a current topic in the literature. Unfortunately, those discussions have been limited to software production environments only. A greater need exists to define what is required in a software maintenance environment. Software maintenance environment requirements should drive the needs of production environments because of the greater permanence of maintenance and its more sizable effect on overall software life-cycle costs. As a step in that direction, this thesis examines one particular aspect of software maintenance-how to understand programs. With this particular focus, this thesis defines criteria to rate software maintenance tool selection, and offers alternative solutions for organizational aspects that are not currently automated by software tools. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA184723

Entities

People

  • Joanne Sexton

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Debugging
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Personnel
  • Management Personnel
  • Operating Systems
  • Software Development
  • Software Development Tools
  • Software Metrics
  • Software Testing

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Software Engineering.
  • Theoretical Analysis.