Legacy Systems Upgrade for Software Risk Assessment
Abstract
Over the past 40 years limited progress has been made to help practitioners estimate the risk and the required effort necessary to deliver software solutions. Recent developments improve this outlook, one in particular, the research of Juan Carlos Nogneira. Dr. Nogneira developed a formal model for risk assessment that can be used to estimate a software project's 5 risk when examined against a desired development time-line. Dr. Nogneira developed his model based on data collected from a series of experiments conducted on the Vite'Project simulation. This unigue approach provides a starting point towards a proven formal model for risk assessment. Another issue with software development, especially in the Department of Defense (DoD), is dealing with aging legacy software systems. These systems perform the functionality of their design, but their interfaces are obsolete and changing requirements limit their functional usefulness. This thesis is an exercise in upgrading a legacy system licensed to the DoD, Vite'Project, for use with ongoing DoD research that seeks to discern truly quantifiable criteria that can be used to more accurately estimate the length of time needed to complete any software project. Accurately projecting software development times and accurate software development costs have eluded software developers for decades.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADA401409
Entities
People
- Byron V. Alexander
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School