A Rapid Prototyping Approach to Software Validation.
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of rapid prototyping for software validation. The expected benefits of this approach are reduced time and cost over the software development life cycle. These benefits are derived from the establishment and validation of software requirements at the beginning of the development rather than establishing the requirements at the beginning and then waiting until the end of development to validate them. An examination of nine case studies was done to compare the effects of using a rapid prototyping approach to software development and using a conventional approach. The projects for the case studies were selected from current thesis projects at the Air Force Institute of Technology. Analysis of these case studies was based on criteria used in an earlier, similar experiment. While the results were not conclusive they did suggest further research on this subject would be beneficial. Keywords Theses Cost Estimates Case Studies Software Validation.