Progress In Astronautics and Aeronautics: Aerospace Software Engineering: A Collection of Concepts

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Christine Anderson, Merlin Dorfman
AIAA, 1991 - Aeronautics - 619 pages
Aerospace Software Engineering brings you the knowledge of some of the finest software engineers in the worldin a single volume. This text is an essential guide for the aerospace program manager who must deal with software as part of the overall system and a valuable update for the practicing software engineer.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
11 Current Problems
5
12 Current Practice
17
Life Cycle Models
31
21 The DOD Life Cycle Model
33
22 NASA Life Cycle Model
51
23 Alternative Software Life Cycle Models
69
Development Methodologies
87
71 Programming Languages Overview
353
72 Ada
365
73 Artificial Intelligence Languages
377
Reuse
393
Definition and Overview
395
82 Engineering and Application of Reusable Software Resources
415
83 Reuse Tools
441
Legal Issues
453

31 Requirements
89
32 Design
123
33 Testing
135
34 Mathematical Forecasting
161
An Alternative Software Development Process
187
Tools and Environments
201
41 Software Development Environments
203
42 Tools and Environments
223
Software Engineering Management
243
51 Management Principles
245
52 Resource Estimation
269
Quality Assurance
287
61 Reliability
289
62 Safety
319
63 Metrics
339
Programming Languages
351
91 Legal Issues
455
Emerging Technologies
479
101 Impact of KnowledgeBased Software Engineering on Aerospace Systems
481
102 Impact of Innovative Architectures
495
103 Symmetric Parallel Processing
505
NonUS Aerospace Software Engineering
523
111 Aerospace Software Engineering in France
525
112 Aerospace Software Engineering in the United Kingdom
545
113 Aerospace Software in Sweden
561
114 Aerospace Software Engineering in Japan
581
ConclusionVision
593
121 Software Engineering of Tomorrow
595
122 Coping with the Crisis
607
Author Index for Volume 136
619
List of Series Volumes
623
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