Judy.Bamberger@SEI.CMU.EDU (07/14/90)
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
____ ______ _ ______ ____
acceptance and conference registration information will be sent
out by Monday, 13 August 1990.
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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)
- CONTINUED -
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
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
11:00am - 11:30am Issue: Process
11:30am - 12:00pm Issue: Interface Standards
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12:00pm - 12:30pm Issue: Frameworks
12:30pm - 2:00pm LUNCH
2:00pm - 4:00pm Discussion Groups (1)
4:00pm - 4:30pm BREAK
4:30pm - 6:00pm Discussion Group Reports (1)
TUESDAY, 11 September 1990
8:00am - 8:30am Continental breakfast
8:30am - 10:30am Discussion Groups (2)
10:30am - 11:00am BREAK
11:00am - 12:30pm Discussion Group Reports (2)
12:30pm - 2:30pm LUNCH
2:30pm - 4:30pm Wrap-up - STARS initial responses to
workshop issues
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These four issues are subject to change; the final program,
distributed with notification of acceptance, will contain the
actual list of issues to be discussed.
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)?