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Measuring the impact of computer resource quality on the software development process and productThe availability and quality of computer resources during the software development process was speculated to have measurable, significant impact on the efficiency of the development process and the quality of the resulting product. Environment components such as the types of tools, machine responsiveness, and quantity of direct access storage may play a major role in the effort to produce the product and in its subsequent quality as measured by factors such as reliability and ease of maintenance. During the past six years, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has conducted experiments with software projects in an attempt to better understand the impact of software development methodologies, environments, and general technologies on the software process and product. Data was extracted and examined from nearly 50 software development projects. All were related to support of satellite flight dynamics ground-based computations. The relationship between computer resources and the software development process and product as exemplified by the subject NASA data was examined. Based upon the results, a number of computer resource-related implications are provided.
Document ID
19870016345
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Other
Authors
Mcgarry, Frank (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Valett, Jon (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Hall, Dana (NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Date Acquired
September 5, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 1985
Publication Information
Publication: Collected Software Engineering Papers, Volume 3
Subject Category
Computer Programming And Software
Accession Number
87N25778
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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