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The Software Engineering Laboratory: An operational software experience factoryFor 15 years, the Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) has been carrying out studies and experiments for the purpose of understanding, assessing, and improving software and software processes within a production software development environment at NASA/GSFC. The SEL comprises three major organizations: (1) NASA/GSFC, Flight Dynamics Division; (2) University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science; and (3) Computer Sciences Corporation, Flight Dynamics Technology Group. These organizations have jointly carried out several hundred software studies, producing hundreds of reports, papers, and documents, all of which describe some aspect of the software engineering technology that was analyzed in the flight dynamics environment at NASA. The studies range from small, controlled experiments (such as analyzing the effectiveness of code reading versus that of functional testing) to large, multiple project studies (such as assessing the impacts of Ada on a production environment). The organization's driving goal is to improve the software process continually, so that sustained improvement may be observed in the resulting products. This paper discusses the SEL as a functioning example of an operational software experience factory and summarizes the characteristics of and major lessons learned from 15 years of SEL operations.
Document ID
19930007973
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Other
Authors
Basili, Victor R. (Maryland Univ. College Park., United States)
Caldiera, Gianluigi (Maryland Univ. College Park., United States)
Mcgarry, Frank (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Pajerski, Rose (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Page, Gerald (Computer Sciences Corp. Greenbelt, MD., United States)
Waligora, Sharon (Computer Sciences Corp. Greenbelt, MD., United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 1992
Publication Information
Publication: Collected Software Engineering Papers, Volume 10
Subject Category
Computer Programming And Software
Accession Number
93N17162
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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