Monitoring and Ada Software Development Project

摘要

As any science matures, the role of measurement, analysis and experimentation grows. The software engineering community has seen the continued development of new software development methods and tools and their use in various environments. The evaluation of methods and tools began with subjective criteria and has been developing toward more objective data collection, measurement and controlled experiments. While this trend is encouraging, these evaluation studies have largely been on a one-shot basis. What has been missing is a systematic approach which defines a longe-range program for the study, analysis and evaluation of a specific method or tool. The emergence of Ada provides a focal point for developing such a systematic study. As a first step, research teams from the University of Maryland and General Electric have embarked upon an eighteen-month collaborative effort. The purpose of this effort is to monitor the use of Ada on a realistically large and complex software development project within industry.