Control Channel Toolkit: A Software Product Line Case Study

Abstract

This report is a case study of the Control Channel Toolkit (CCT), a software asset base for a software product line of ground-based spacecraft command and control systems built under the direction of the United States National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Beginning with a characterization of the CCT context and a narration of the history of the effort, the report describes the management and software engineering practices, the software artifacts that were developed, the results that were achieved, and the lessons that were learned. It concludes with an accounting of the measurable benefits the government has already reaped in the initial use of CCT on a specific spacecraft command and control system. With the permission of Addison-Wesley, this report is extracted from Software Product Lines: Practices and Patterns Clements 01, where it was published with the approval of the National Reconnaissance Office.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA396286

Entities

People

  • Linda M. Northrop
  • Patrick Donohoe
  • Paul Clements
  • Sholom Cohen

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Business Administration
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Governments
  • Military Operations
  • Organizational Structure
  • Software Development
  • Software Testing
  • Spacecraft
  • Spacecraft Orbits

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Space