Case Study: A Measurement Program for Product Lines

Abstract

The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport Ranges, Engineering, and Analysis Department applied product line practices in the development of systems for the Navy test ranges it supports. To gauge the success of its product line effort, NUWC must be able to measure the effectiveness of the product line approach compared to more traditional development approaches. To do this, NUWC established a software measurement team to develop and monitor a measurement program. The team includes representatives from programs using the NUWC core asset base, RangeWare. Four projects are currently contributing to the measurement program. This report documents NUWC's approach for measurement by describing the Goal-Driven Software Measurement approach adopted by the test range product line effort and by providing early results of the measurement program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA443159

Entities

People

  • David Zubrow
  • Ed Dunn
  • Sholom Cohen

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Case Studies
  • Commerce
  • Configuration Management
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Measurement
  • Organizational Structure
  • Product Development
  • Reliability
  • Shallow Water
  • Software Development
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Undersea Warfare
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Software Engineering.