Requirement elicitation is a very critical step in software development. In order to develop adequate software which answers to user’s needs, it is essential to understand the real-world environment, the users themselves, goals, constraints, and risks and its possible solutions. Unable to describe correct requirements can lead to a massive software development failure. This paper aims to propos...

1. SUMMARY System identification is a complicated, multi-step process requiring considerable expertise to perform. In a traditional flight test program, the elapsed time from flying the aircraft and gathering data until the simulation is updated can be months or even years. The primary reasons behind the long times between flight test and simulation update are the labor-intensive processes of d...

N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 1 9 9 9 I E E E S o f t w a r e 5 1 ver the years, there has been broad interest in creating software engineering standards. One authoritative survey discovered approximately 315 standards, guides, handbooks, and other prescriptive documents maintained by 46 different organizations (see the “Sources of Software Engineering Standards” sidebar).1 Nevertheless, up...

Software testing is one of the key processes in the delivery of applications. The market has been steadily maturing to deliver improved user success, but technology changes such as agile practices, mobile computing and cloud platforms can disrupt vendor evaluation for testers and test managers. The automated software quality (ASQ) assurance market is a subsegment of the overall software develop...

Embedded System Education has become an important part of information disciplines’ teaching programs, and attracted educators’ attention in China. To counter the deficiency of practice training in some graduates’ courses a new curriculum “Hardware/Software integrated design of embedded systems” is given at Tsinghua University. The course’s main contents, teaching activities’ arrangements, basic...

Software evolution has not a common paradigm which practitioners can adhere to. On the contrary, there is a wide range of models, methods, techniques, and tools which are selected according to the specific task, the application domain, the professional experience and the organizational culture. We argue that different approaches and technologies may be combined into a unique platform to satisfy...

-Substation data integration is facilitated by existence and appropriate connection of Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs). Collecting data from IEDs and its processing facilitates performing data consistency checks, filtering out erroneous measurements, monitoring of switching sequences and substation topology transitions etc. Processed data may be used locally and/or communicated to remote ...

The Generic Enterprise Ensemble (GEE) developed by the COTS-Based Systems initiative at the Software Engineering Institute is designed to be a generic approach to building Enterprise Information systems that are distributed, transaction-based and secure. Two GEE variants were developed: one by integrating “latest and greatest” components from leading vendors and one using Enterprise JavaBeans (...

This paper presents the Explicitly Integrated Architecture Process for integrating architecture models with program code. The process allows to edit program code using architecture model views with automatic bidirectional translations.