Innovations in software engineering for defense systems / Oversight Committee for the Workshop on Statistical Methods in Software Engineering for Defense Systems ; Siddhartha R. Dalal, Jesse H. Poore, and Michael L. Cohen, eds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.). Oversight Committee for the Workshop on Statistical Methods in Software Engineering for Defense Systems.

Contributor:

Dalal, Siddhartha R.

Poore, J. H.

Cohen, Michael L.

Workshop on Statistical Methods in Software Engineering for Defense Systems (2001 : National Academy of Sciences).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Software engineering--Statistical methods.

Software engineering.

Statistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (87 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academic Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recent rough estimates are that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) spends at least $38 billion a year on the research, development, testing, and evaluation of new defense systems; approximately 40 percent of that cost-at least $16 billion-is spent on software development and testing. There is widespread understanding within DoD that the effectiveness of software-intensive defense systems is often hampered by low-quality software as well as increased costs and late delivery of software components. Given the costs involved, even relatively incremental improvements to the software development process for defense systems could represent a large savings in funds. And given the importance of producing defense software that will carry out its intended function, relatively small improvements to the quality of defense software systems would be extremely important to identify. DoD software engineers and test and evaluation officials may not be fully aware of a range of available techniques, because of both the recent development of these techniques and their origination from an orientation somewhat removed from software engineering, i.e., from a statistical perspective. The panel's charge therefore was to convene a workshop to identify statistical software engineering techniques that could have applicability to DoD systems in development.

Contents:

FrontMatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Executive Summary

1 Motivation for and Structure of the Workshop

2 Requirements and Software Architectural Analysis

3 Testing Methods and Related Issues

4 Data Analysis to Assess Performance and to Support Software Improvement

5 Next Steps

References

APPENDIXES

APPENDIX A Workshop Agenda and Speakers

APPENDIX B Glossary and Acronym List

APPENDIX C Biographical Sketches.

Notes:

"Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education and Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610209019

9780309166935

0309166934

9781280209017

1280209011

9780309526319

0309526310

OCLC:

55663903