JBROOKSHIRE@USC-ECLB.ARPA (10/03/85)
TO: MEMBERS OF THE Ada AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMMUNITIES:
The Ada Programming Support Environment (APSE) Evaluation and Validation
Task was established to develop the tools and techniques to provide a
capability to perform assessment of APSEs and to determine conformance
of APSEs to the Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO) sponsored Common APSE
Interface Set (CAIS). As the E&V technology is developed, it will be
made available to the community for use by the DoD components, industry,
and academia. The E&V Team will be developing technology to evaluate
specific components (ie., compilers, debuggers, command language
interpretors, etc.). In support of these activities, a number of support
services and specific tool evaluators have been identified. Your help
in determining the relative merits of these facilities to the community
is hereby requested.
APSE EVALUATION FACILITIES SURVEY:
The following list of software development tool evaluation facilities
(EVALUATORS) and other useful facilities (Information System, Trial Accounts,
etc.), has been developed by the APSE E & V Team as candidates for early
definition and development. In the interest of broadening the base of support
for the selection decisions, it has been decided to survey as much of the "Ada
Community" and "Software Engineering Community" as we can locate. You are
therefore requested to review this list and to advise us of your preferences
by ranking these evaluators in your order of relative importance - say, for
example, one thru N, where one would be your first choice, and "N" represents
the last entry from the list that you would see a need for - we would hope that
most people would choose five or so facilities as being of immediate interest
or need. Please feel free to suggest any additions to the list, or to comment
on the individual evaluators/facilities, or on the list as a whole.
It is also requested that you provide us with references to any existing
or planned evaluators you may be aware of. If you can report on such
evaluations, please provide details, such as status and availability, or a
point of contact.
The results of this total survey will be distributed thru the communities
as soon and as broadly as possible. If any respondents should desire copies
of incremental intermediate results, please so state in your response.
FACILITIES/EVALUATORS:
(Stated in terms of the function or Tool to be evaluated - note the difference
between "evaluation - goodness or something", and "validation - conformance to
a requirement")
RECOMMENDED
RANK
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1. Ada PDL (Program Design Language) Guidelines |_________|
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2. APSE E&V Network (On-Line) Information Repository |_________|
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3. APSE Trial Accounts (via network access) |_________|
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4. CAIS (Common APSE Interface System) Evaluators |_________|
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5. CAIS (Common APSE Interface System) Validation |_________|
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6. Compiler Evaluators |_________|
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7. Configuration ManagementSupport (in APSE) |_________|
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8. Database Optimization Evaluators |_________|
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9. Distributed Development Environment Support (in APSE) |_________|
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10. Distributed Runtime System Support (in APSE) |_________|
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11. Interoperability Evaluators |_________|
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12. Methodology Evaluators |_________|
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13. Multilingual APSE Evaluators |_________|
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14. Portability Evaluators |_________|
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15. Program Library Evaluators |_________|
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16. Runtime Evaluators |_________|
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17. Software Maintainability Support (in APSE) |_________|
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18. Software Reliability Support (in APSE) |_________|
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19. Target Simulation Evaluators |_________|
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20. Test Management Support (in APSE) |_________|
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21. Useability (User Interface/Performance/Capacity) |_________|
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22. "Whole APSE" Evaluators |_________|
Please note the list is alphabetically ordered - you are requested to
essentially reorder it in accordance with your preferred order of importance.
Your cooperation in this survey is greatly appreciated. The survey may be
returned via electronic mail or, if you prefer, to the U S Mail address
given below. An acceptable alternative to the return of the completed form
would be a message containing your preferred ranking using the order numbers
from the above list; ie., 20, 3, 9, 11, 6, where you perceive #20 as most
important, #3 as second-most, etc.
Jerry R. Brookshire
Member, APSE E & V Team and Requirements Working Group (REQWG)
JBROOKSHIRE @ USC-ECLB / brookshir%ti-eg@CSNET-RELAY
Jerry R Brookshire
Texas Instruments Inc
P O Box 660246 - M/S 3114
Dallas, TX 75266
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