Computer-aided software engineering´s impact on the software development process: an experiment

Author

Granger, Mary J. ; Pick, Roger Alan

Author_Institution

Coll. of Bus. & Manage., Morgan State Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

Volume

iii

fYear

1991

fDate

8-11 Jan 1991

Firstpage

28

Abstract

Organizations today invest enormous resources in computer-aided software engineering (CASE) technologies with the hope of gaining significant increases in programmer productivity. In an empirical study, eleven three-person teams, composed of undergraduate Information Systems majors, developed versions of the same software system, a Pascal Pretty Printer; four teams used the same CASE tool and seven teams did not use any CASE tools. The major results of this study are: (1) most of the CASE projects were coded in less time than the non-CASE projects; and (2) all of the CASE projects met more of the requirements than the non-CASE projects. Each of these results was a statistically significant effect

Keywords

programming environments; software tools; CASE projects; CASE tool; Pascal Pretty Printer; computer-aided software engineering; programmer productivity; software development process; three-person teams; undergraduate Information Systems majors; Computer aided software engineering; Educational institutions; Management information systems; Productivity; Programming profession; Resource management; Software development management; Software engineering; Technology management; USA Councils;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1991. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kauai, HI

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1991.184123

Filename

184123