A UNIX-based Gist specification processor: The system factory experience

Castillo, Aldo; Corcoran, Sean; Scacchi, Walt

doi:10.1109/icde.1986.7266265

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“…Gist specification analyzer and simulator, provides a basic facility for constructing, analyzing, and functionally simulating system specifications written in the Gist specification language [1,8,46]. We intend to extend this facility to support mechanisms for explaining the behavior of operational system specifications.…”

Section: Sf Product: a Computer-aided Software Engineering Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These outcomes include both technological and organizational artifacts, and numerous research contributions. We have produced an inventory of reusable software components that we can reconfigure into different application systems or environments [39,20,41] [31,8,44,45]. Each of these components has a record of formal specifications and narrative descriptions that characterize its development life cycle.…”

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The USC system factory project

Scacchi

1989

SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes

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Developing the next generation of large-scale software systems will change the patterns of work in system development organizations. We therefore expect the major systems engineering problems to be solved will require organizational solutions that accomodate advanced software development tools, flexible manufacturing techniques for system life cycle engineering, and knowledge-intensive strategies for managing large system development projects. Over the past seven years, we have created an experimental organizational environment for developing large software systems that allow us to encounter these problems, and find effective solutions or interventions. We call this organizational environment the System Factory. We have developed and evolved the System Factory through seven generations of graduate student staff, totaling more than 500 in number. In this report, we describe what the System Factory is, the problems we have investigated, the results and example products of this research, potential future applications of the System Factory approach, and finally our experiences in transferring this technology. Copyright (C) 1987 Walt ScacchiThe System Factory Project has been supported over the years through contracts, grants, or gifts from the

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The USC system factory project

Scacchi

1989

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“…3,9]. Subsequently, the products of software evolution such as design documents, source code programs, etc.…”

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“…Knowledge of Software Evolution As we use Gist as an operational knowledge specification language, we employ tools such as specification generators, language-directed editors, specification analyzers, functional simulators, and a software hypertext system to construct, formalize, and manage our knowledge descriptions [3,4]. We also employ a commercial expert system development environment, Knowledge Craft from Carnegie Group Inc.…”

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Modelling software evolution: a knowledge-based approach

Scacchi

1988

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Work structures and shifts

Bendifallah

Scacchi

1989

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Software Engineering - ICSE '89

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The study and support of teamwork in upstream software development activities (e.g., specification, design) have been approached from a variety of perspectives. Those which address aspects of the division of labor typically focus on authority or communication structures. In this paper, we examine how teams of engineers develop software specifications, from a perspective emphasizing the division of labor in terms of the work structures themselves.We present a new typology of work structures and report on an empirical investigation of these work structures. We examine the teamwork process followed by each of five comparable teams of specification developers. The teams worked over a ten-day period with state-of-theart specification resources to deliver functional specification documents meeting prescribed quality standards. Our data and analysis show the recurrence of various kinds of shifts in the teams' work structures. We discuss the resulting patterns of work structures and shifts and their implications. In particular, separative work structures were associated with improved specification teamwork efficiency, whereas integrative work structures were associated with improved specification product quality.

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A UNIX-based Gist specification processor: The system factory experience

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Modelling software evolution: a knowledge-based approach

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