The Costs and Benefits of Domain-Oriented Software Reuse: Evidence From the STARS Demonstration Projects.

Abstract

For more than twelve years, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has funded software technology initiatives under its Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems (STARS) program. Between 1992 and 1995, DARPA funded three case studies to demonstrate the use of STARS technologies on three moderately sized software development projects, one in each military department. This paper describes the costs and benefits of using STARS technologies for these demonstration projects. IDA used goal-directed identification of measures and computed indicators of project status to ensure that relevant data and analyses were planned for each project. A major challenge was the difficulty with comparing the current projects to entirely analogous previous work by the same organization. Our results suggest the benefits of domain-oriented investments can be realized in three years. Potential savings of 75% to 90% in development costs could be attained after the initial investments have been recouped.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA312063

Entities

People

  • Thomas P. Frazier

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Application Software
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Cost Estimates
  • Demonstrations
  • Domain Specific Programming Languages
  • Engineering
  • Investments
  • Life Cycles
  • Object Code
  • Operating Systems
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Software Engineering.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.