Accession Number:

ADA536776

Title:

Documentation Driven Development for Complex Real-Time Systems

Descriptive Note:

Journal article

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AUTOMATION CENTER

Personal Author(s):

• Luqi,
• Zhang, Lin
• Berzins, Valdis
• Qiao, Ying

Report Date:

2004-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

21.0

Abstract:

This paper presents a novel approach for development of complex real-time systems, called the documentation-driven development DDD approach. This approach can enhance integration of computer aided software development activities, which encompass the entire life cycle. DDD will provide a mechanism to monitor and quickly respond to changes in requirements and provide a friendly communication and collaboration environment to enable different stakeholders to be easily involved in development processes and, therefore, significantly improve the agility of software development for complex real-time systems. DDD will also support automated software generation based on a computational model and some relevant techniques. DDD includes two main parts a documentation management system DMS and a process measurement system PMS. DMS will create, organize, monitor, analyze, and transform all documentation associated with the software development process. PMS will monitor the frequent changes in requirements and assess the effort and success possibility of development. A case study was conducted by a tool set that realized part of the proposed approach.

Descriptors:

• *REAL TIME
• *SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
• MEASUREMENT
• COMPUTATIONS
• LIFE CYCLES
• MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND CONTROL
• MONITORING
• TOOLS
• CASE STUDIES
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• AUTOMATION

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE