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Author: Nelson Weiderman Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 134
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The System Management experiments (four in all) exercise the environment from the perspective of the system manager. The first experiment investigates the procedures necessary to install an APSE on a raw machine or on top of an existing operating system. The second experiment addresses the issues of user account management, whereas the third investigates the maintenance aspects of supporting a running environment. The fourth System Management experiment deals with system resource management activities such as: collecting accounting information, monitoring the system workload, and reconfiguring (tuning) the operating environment for optimal performance. Following the evaluation methodology outlined in Chapter 1, each APSE will be evaluated with respect to its support of System Management activities across the evaluation dimensions of functionality, performance, user interface, and system interface. The overall intent of this group of experiments is to provide a comprehensive evaluation of an APSE's support for typical System Management activities (i.e., environment installation, user account management, environment maintenance, and system resource management). The scope for the remainder of this chapter will be to carry out all six phases of the evaluation methodology for the first and second system management experiments in the context of the VMS/ALS (Ada Language System), VMS/VAXSet, and Unix/VADS (Verdix Ada Development System) Ada environments. Additionally, the third and fourth System Management experiments will be carried out through the environment dependent steps of the evaluation methodology (i.e., Phase 1 through Phase 3).
Author: Nelson Weiderman Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 134
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The System Management experiments (four in all) exercise the environment from the perspective of the system manager. The first experiment investigates the procedures necessary to install an APSE on a raw machine or on top of an existing operating system. The second experiment addresses the issues of user account management, whereas the third investigates the maintenance aspects of supporting a running environment. The fourth System Management experiment deals with system resource management activities such as: collecting accounting information, monitoring the system workload, and reconfiguring (tuning) the operating environment for optimal performance. Following the evaluation methodology outlined in Chapter 1, each APSE will be evaluated with respect to its support of System Management activities across the evaluation dimensions of functionality, performance, user interface, and system interface. The overall intent of this group of experiments is to provide a comprehensive evaluation of an APSE's support for typical System Management activities (i.e., environment installation, user account management, environment maintenance, and system resource management). The scope for the remainder of this chapter will be to carry out all six phases of the evaluation methodology for the first and second system management experiments in the context of the VMS/ALS (Ada Language System), VMS/VAXSet, and Unix/VADS (Verdix Ada Development System) Ada environments. Additionally, the third and fourth System Management experiments will be carried out through the environment dependent steps of the evaluation methodology (i.e., Phase 1 through Phase 3).
Author: Nelson Weiderman Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 94
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The project management experiments exercise the environment from the perspective of the project manager. The activities of concern here are those related to allocating resources to the project, specifying group and individual tasks, tracking progress, evaluating the quality of the project and (to a limited extent) administrative support functions. The technical management experiments concentrate on management of the project database. The experiments examine the database with respect to organization, access, and management, not as an entity for the creation and maintenance of specific software modules and systems. In other words, the technical management experiments are intended to ask questions of interest to a typical manager, not those of interest to members of the technical staff (e.g., programmers, documentation specialists, etc.).
Author: CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST. Publisher: ISBN: Category : Ada (Computer program language) Languages : en Pages : 200
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The Configuration Management/Version Control experiments (three in all) exercise the Configuration Management and version control capabilities of the Ada Programming Support Environment (APSE). The first experiment simulates the system integration and testing phase of the life cycle by having three separate development lines of descent from a single baselined system. The second experiment, which assumes that the first experiment has been successfully completed, investigates the APSE's support of pure Configuration Management activities such as: system construction, reconstruct ion of previously generated baselined systems, and construction of hybrid (a mixture of new and old) systems. The third experiment in the area of Configuration Management investigates the activities involved in the management of a software product including release control and release history. It also assumes that the first experiment has been successfully completed. The overall intent of this group of experiments is to provide a comprehensive evaluation of an APSE's version control capabilities (i.e., support of successive versions, variant versions, file checkin/checkout, etc.) as well as its Configuration Management capabilities The scope of the remainder of this chapter will be to carry out all six phases of the evaluation methodology for the first and second Configuration Management experiments in the context of the VMS/ALS (Ada Language System), VMS/VAXSet, and Unix/VADS (Verdix Ada Development System) Ada environment. Additionally, the third Configuration Management experiment will be carried out through the environment dependent steps of the evaluation methodology.
Author: Nelson Weiderman Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 162
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This is the second of two generic experiments that evaluate environmental support for programming-in-the-small activities. The first experiment concentrated on those activities inherent to detailed design and development (Chapter 5). This generic experiment concentrates on unit testing and debugging. Keywords: Ada Source code exhibits; computer files.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 84
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An important goal of the Software Engineering Institute is to assess advanced software development technologies and disseminate those that appear promising. Ada Programming Support Environments (APSEs) have already been developed under government contract and for the commercial marketplace, and more are certain to follow. Such environments play key roles in increasing the productivity of software engineers, in improving the quality of embedded systems software, and in reducing the cost of producing and maintaining software. The initial purpose of the Evaluation of Ada Environments project was to determine the suitability of the Army/Navy Ada Language System (ALS) and the Air Force Ada Integrated Environment (AIE) for application to software engineering activities. The ALS was delivered to SEI in late 1985 and the AIE has yet to be completed as of the middle of 1986. Early in the project a decision was made to develop a systematic methodology for evaluation of environments and to include a number of commercial environments in the study. These environments were extensions of existing operating systems, but included toolsets rich enough to be considered Minimal Ada Programming Support Environments (MAPSEs). The full report of the study provides a detailed description of the methodology and examples of its usage. Chapter 3 gives the results of the System Management experiment group. Chapter 4 gives the results of the Configuration Management experiment group. Chapter 5 presents the results of the Design and Code Development experiment group. Chapter 6 gives the results of the Test and Debug experiment group.
Author: Carnegie-Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 84
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An important goal of the Software Engineering Institute is to assess advanced software development technologies and disseminate those that appear promising. Ada Programming Support Environments (APSEs) have already been developed under government contract and for the commercial marketplace, and more are certain to follow. Such environments play key roles in increasing the productivity of software engineers, in improving the quality of embedded systems software, and in reducing the cost of producing and maintaining software. The initial purpose of the Evaluation of Ada Environments project was to determine the suitability of the Army/Navy Ada Language System (ALS) and the Air Force Ada Integrated Environment (AIE) for application to software engineering activities. The ALS was delivered to SEI in late 1985 and the AIE has yet to be completed as of the middle of 1986. Early in the project a decision was made to develop a systematic methodology for evaluation of environments and to include a number of commercial environments in the study. These environments were extensions of existing operating systems, but included toolsets rich enough to be considered Minimal Ada Programming Support Environments (MAPSEs). The full report of the study provides a detailed description of the methodology and examples of its usage. Chapter 3 gives the results of the System Management experiment group. Chapter 4 gives the results of the Configuration Management experiment group. Chapter 5 presents the results of the Design and Code Development experiment group. Chapter 6 gives the results of the Test and Debug experiment group.
Author: Patricia K. Lawlis Publisher: ISBN: Category : Ada (Computer program language) Languages : en Pages : 488
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Most software selection decisions are based on data which cover only a very small portion of the scope of software assessments, and this amount of data is inadequate for making intelligent decisions. Only a computer system such as the one designed in this research can bring together an adequate amount of assessment data with a broad enough scope and provide a decision maker with a consistent and comprehensive analysis of such data so that intelligent decisions are possible. The research described in this dissertation has been a start, but only a start, toward developing a comprehensive Ada Programming Support Environment (APSE) assessment capability. The current state of assessment technology has been examined, and it has provided the basis for the evaluation framework designed. This framework is an important and necessary step in determining the type of assessment data which must be provided in order to make a comprehensive software evaluation. Designing a prototype computer system for APSE selection has demonstrated the viability of using this framework to improve the software selection process. A variation of the design could also be used when selecting any type of software in general. The Ada Software Selection AssISTant (ASSIST), the product of this research, has the potential for becoming a very important part of software evaluation technology. (KR).
Author: Nelson Weiderman Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 55
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The experiment presented in this document does not use the evaluation method developed for the other experiments. It consists of compiling and executing the Ada Compiler Evaluation Capability (ACEC) test suite that has been assembled by the Institute for Defense Analyses. The purpose of the experiment was to provide a method of evaluating Ada compilers, as a supplement to the main experiments of the project. The decision to make use of an existing test suite was driven by the desire to expend minimum effort in this supplementary activity. In retrospect, it has taken more effort than expected to employ the ACEC only to produce quite modest results. The major elements of the experiment are: 1) the ACEC collection of Ada test programs; 2) the package of support software provided in the ACEC; 3) the implementation-dependent support software developed for the experiment; and 4) the analysis program developed for the experiment.
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Author: Carnegie-Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute
Author: Patricia K. Lawlis
Author: Nelson Weiderman