Commitment-based software development

Author

Mark, William ; Tyler, Sherman ; McGuire, James ; Schlossberg, Jon

Author_Institution

Lockheed Palo Alto Res. Labs., CA, USA

Volume

18

Issue

10

fYear

1992

fDate

10/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

870

Lastpage

885

Abstract

During the development of a system, software modules can be viewed in terms of their commitments: the constraints imposed by their own structure and behavior, and by their relationships with other modules (in terms of resource consumption, data requirements. etc.). The Comet system uses explicit representation and reasoning with commitments to aid the software design and development process-in particular, to lead software developers to make decisions that result in reuse. Developers can examine the commitments that must be met in order to include an existing module, and can explore how commitments change when modules are modified. Comet has been applied to the domain of sensor-based tracker software

Keywords

artificial intelligence; knowledge representation; software engineering; software reusability; Comet system; commitments; constraints; data requirements; explicit representation; reasoning; resource consumption; reuse; sensor-based tracker software; software development; software modules; Control systems; Couplings; Design automation; Feedback; Ontologies; Programming; Software design; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-5589

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/32.163604

Filename

163604