VHLL (Very High Level Language) System Prototyping Tool

Abstract

This report contains the results of studying issues relating to the requirements development process. The goals, objectives, results and conclusions for three separate but related components, 1) a Requirements Engineering Panel study, 2) the development of a Very High Level Language Prototyping Tool, and 3) a Database Management Study are described. First, a panel of experts was formed whose goals were to understand the requirements engineering problem and define a long-range (10 year) Research and Development plan for the RADC Requirements Engineering Testbed (RET). The plan was to identify tools and methods that should be developed, evaluated and integrated. Second, the objective of the rapid prototyping system, Proto, was to develop a functional specification, prior to extensive design and coding effort in a large (C3I) software system. The approach includes defining a functional specification language for defining prototypes, developing and organizing a facility around the concept of reusability with the reusable components (both functions and data types) managed by an object manager, and develop a set of support tools to facilitate the construction and execution of prototypes. Finally, a study was performed to identify the data base management requirements for supporting an automated requirements engineering process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA212587

Entities

People

  • Don Hartman
  • Mike Konrad
  • Terry Welch

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Complex Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Contracts
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Debugging
  • Engineering
  • Formal Languages
  • Graphical User Interface
  • High Level Languages
  • Language
  • Prototypes
  • Software Prototyping
  • Standards
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Software Engineering