Special Report CMU/SEI-93-SR-5 Reengineering: An Engineering Problem

Reengineering: An Engineering Problem

This paper discusses a plan that addresses how the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) may assist the Department of Defense (DoD) in reengineering its large software-intensive systems. This plan is based on a view of reengineering as an engineering problem to improve the cost-effective evolution of large software-intensive systems. This view of reengineering, which takes the whole software eng...

Cmu / Sei - 93 - Tr -

Eliminative Argumentation: A Basis for Arguing Confidence in System Properties

Assurance cases provide a structured method of explaining why a system has some desired property, for example, that the system is safe. But there is no agreed approach for explaining what degree of confidence one should have in the conclusions of such a case. This report defines a new concept, eliminative argumentation, that provides a philosophically grounded basis for assessing how much confi...

Achieving Higher Levels of Cmmi Maturity Using Simulation

Simulation and the Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) are both fundamentally process focused with common objectives. Both are tools used to advance process capabilities and performance. Can organizations apply simulation to their business practices to help them achieve higher levels of CMMI maturity? Which specific Process Areas would simulation add the most value? Simulation projects ...

CMU / SEI - 89 - TR - 26 ESD - TR - 89 - 34 CASE Planning and the Software Process

Automating a software process both magnifies its strengths and accentuates its weaknesses. Automation can make an effective process more effective, but it can make a chaotic process even worse—and at considerable expense. Anyone who buys expensive tools to solve an ill-defined problem is likely to be disappointed. Unless procuring such tools is part of a thoughtful software process improvement ...