Judy.Bamberger@SEI.CMU.EDU (08/01/90)
Call for Participation
STARS / USERS WORKSHOP
Dialogue with STARS Program Office and Primes
Monday - Tuesday, 10 - 11 September 1990
Software Engineering Institute / Mellon Institute
Pittsburgh PA 15213
412-268-7700
The STARS (Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems) Program is
focused on providing the DoD software community with a software engineering
environment, repository technology, and process models. STARS is sponsoring
a workshop targeted toward increasing the communication between the STARS
Program and the builders of software-dependent systems. This will be the
first of many public discussions hosted by the STARS Program. This workshop
is being hosted by the SEI.
The primary purposes of this workshop are:
- For organizations building software-dependent systems to review
STARS Program goals, objectives, and progress and to provide input
into the STARS Program plans.
- For the STARS Program to validate its goals, objectives, and
plans.
The goals of the workshop are:
- To begin an on-going dialogue with the intended users of STARS
products and technologies toward a shared vision for tools and
environments to support large system development effectively.
- To validate STARS assumptions about the needs and requirements of
organizations building large software-dependent systems.
The target audience of this workshop is those who specify, buy, and use
environments to build and maintain large, operational software-dependent
systems.
To this end, the workshop will feature:
- An overview of the current direction of the STARS Program.
- A discussion of key issues affecting the STARS Program, and the
technical thrusts of the STARS prime contractor efforts to date.
- Small discussion groups, focusing on current "hot topics"
applicable to STARS, such as: reuse, process, interface
standards, frameworks, distribution, reverse engineering,
responsiveness of the CASE industry, and STARS commercialization
strategy.
- A STARS Program response to the issues raised by the workshop
attendees during discussion groups.
The output from this workshop will be a written summary of the meeting,
including discussion group reports and STARS Program responses, as well as
plans for follow-on events; this summary will be mailed to workshop
attendees within 45-60 days of the workshop.
STARS / Users Workshop participants are also encouraged to attend SEI's
Affiliates Symposium, the annual event that provides a showcase for current
SEI and Affiliate activities; it is being held following this workshop.
STARS / Users Workshop participants are invited to attend this event, which
is normally limited to SEI Affiliates, 12 - 13 September 1990 (tutorials are
offered 11 September), and requires separate registration. Contact Helen
Joyce at 412-268-6504 for registration information.
Application for STARS / USERS WORKSHOP
Attendance will be limited because of space, so applications must be
received by MONDAY, 6 AUGUST 1990. Notification of acceptance and
conference registration information will be sent out by Monday, 13 August
1990.
Please complete both sides of this form and send to:
Shirley Brooks
Software Engineering Institute
Pittsburgh PA 15213
FAX: 412-268-5758
Email: sab@sei.cmu.edu
There may be a small registration fee ($40.00) to cover workshop
incidentals.
Applicant Information
Name ____________________________________________
Title ____________________________________________
Company ____________________________________________
Division ____________________________________________
Address ____________________________________________
____________________________________________
City/State/Zip ____________________________________________
Business Phone ____________________________________________
Email ____________________________________________
To ensure a mix of interests at discussion groups, please check the area
below that best represents your work:
_____ STARS Prime or related (e.g., DARPA)
_____ System builder
_____ CASE / tool vendor
_____ Other (specify)
Please provide a one-paragraph discussion of your interest in the STARS
Program and its products, and how you are or may be impacted by them.
Please suggest one (or more) issue(s) you would like to see discussed
among the workshop participants, STARS Program Office, and STARS primes.
(Some candidate issues appear on page 6.)
A similar workshop is intended in Spring 1991 for CASE tool vendors.
*DRAFT* Workshop Program
MONDAY, 10 September 1990
8:00am - 8:45am Registration and continental breakfast [SEI Cafeteria]
8:45am - 9:00am Welcome and Introductions (John Foreman, SEI)
9:00am - 9:15am DARPA/ISTO Overview (Barry Boehm, DARPA/ISTO)
9:15am - 9:40am STARS Program Overview (Jack Kramer, DARPA/ISTO)
9:40am - 10:00am Workshop Overview (John Foreman, SEI)
10:00am - 10:30am Issue: Reuse
10:30am - 11:00am BREAK [SEI 2nd floor lobby area]
11:00am - 11:30am Issue: Process
11:30am - 12:00pm Issue: Software Engineering Environment
12:00pm - 12:30pm Issue: STARS Evaluation
12:30pm - 2:00pm LUNCH [on your own]
2:00pm - 5:30pm Discussion Groups
4:00pm - 4:30pm BREAK [SEI 2nd floor lobby area]
6:00pm - 9:00pm Working dinner - initial feedback from DG leaders
to STARS Program
TUESDAY, 11 September 1990
7:00am - 8:30am STARS Program meeting (continued, if needed)
8:00am - 8:30am Continental breakfast [SEI Cafeteria]
8:30am - 10:30am Discussion Groups (continued)
10:30am - 11:00am BREAK [SEI 2nd floor lobby area]
11:00am - 12:30pm Discussion Group Reports
12:30pm - 2:30pm LUNCH [Syria Mosque, banquet hall, lower level,
with SEI Affiliates Symposium]
2:30pm - 4:30pm Wrap-up - STARS initial responses to workshop issues
Candidate Issues for Discussion Groups
The following list identifies candidate issues that may be appropriate for
discussion by workshop attendees. When filling out the "issues to be
discussed" section of the application form, feel free to select one or more
of these issues, or add your own to this candidate list.
1. How do industry and government users get involved with the STARS
Program? Set up cooperative efforts? Affect internal R&D
activities to take the most advantage of STARS products and
technologies?
2. "I already have a significant investment in process and tools,
and support for both. How do I capitalize on that, given STARS?"
3. What message can the STARS Program and system houses take to the
CASE vendors?
4. Are there two distinct (and conflicting) CASE cultures emerging -
the "front-end CASE" versus the "back-end CASE"? Is there a gap
between the two? Where are other gaps? Which gap deserves the
highest priority (i.e., should be addressed first)? What really
is a "gap" (e.g., what does it mean to "integrate" tools)? What
mechanism exists to confirm that a gap has been filled
effectively?
5. What issues must be addressed when integrating
multi-method/paradigm tools and multi-lingual systems? What
support must be provided by an environment?
6. Where should the environment support (automation) end and the
user manipulation (brute force) begin? For the purposes of
automation and standardization, is STARS examining the highest
leverage activities involved in software development/maintenance?
7. Economics - what business environment can be assumed "after
STARS"?
8. How does STARS converge on the "right" building blocks for
environments, for example:
- Standard interfaces (POSIX, X11, SQL, MOTIF, CAIS, PCTE,
ATIS, etc)
- Program language bindings (Ada, C++, etc)
What mechanisms should there be for interfacing between
tools/languages coming from different basic paradigms (e.g., an
Ada binding for X Windows)?
9. What environment support is required specifically for the
development and maintenance of embedded systems? For distributed
targets? Which of those issues should STARS be pursuing?
10. What should environments have to support reuse of all levels of
artifacts (e.g., automated support for reasonable documentation,
testing, recording of history, design records, full/formal
specifications)?
11. What is STARS doing about system development processes that
emphasize interactive models of designing and implementing (e.g.,
prototyping)?
From: JBamberger - STARS / USERS '90
Software Engineering Institute - 5409
Pittsburgh PA 15213