Making Use of Your Defined Processes to Support Project Planning and ProductQuality (Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems (STARS) Program)

摘要

The STARS program was instituted to develop technology to support themegaprogramming of software systems, or systems in which software is a part. Developing software using the megaprogramming approach involves following a defined process to develop software, using the concepts of architecture-based and component reuse. STARS is currently in its technology demonstration phase, where the three STARS prime contractors are each paired with a military service team to use STARS megaprogramming concepts to develop and field a software system. Experiences by all three STARS contractors, as well as experience on all three STARS demonstration projects, have shown that defining enactable (or executable) processes is a time-consuming activity. Further, organizations are not taking full advantage of this investment from the standpoints of project and product-quality planning. The purpose of this paper is to describe how process definitions can be leveraged to support software project planning and project execution through process-driven software development.