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Evolution of software development standards in the military domain and effects on software applications

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System life cycle tends to be longer in military applications, reaching over 30 years in specific examples. Development and maintenance of software contained by these systems are regulated by software development standards. Such standards are being utilized since 1978 in the military domain. During recent decades, these standards evolved along with software engineering concepts. This paper presents progress of software development standards in the military domain, with special emphasis on life cycle of applications. This progress is evolutionary, without radical shifts in contents and concepts. Details of the progress provide an insight to the evolution at a conceptual level. Experimental findings regarding the evolution are presented. The study is concluded with comments on the relation between standards' evolution and software applications.

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    Vladan Jovanovic

    Codur and Dogru address the evolution of software development standards in the military domain, covering the entire historical sequence: MIL-STD-1679, DOD-STD-2167, MIL-STD-489, and IEEE/EIA 12207. The study uses content analysis and small-scale experiments, with the standards as the independent variables. The conclusion drawn from the detailed comparative analysis of requirements from the standards is not surprising: as the software process becomes more complex with the addition of new concerns, the effort estimates go up. I recommend this paper to software engineering students who are interested in development standards, as this is one of the few papers that takes an in-depth look at software standards. Online Computing Reviews Service

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    IWPSE-Evol '09: Proceedings of the joint international and annual ERCIM workshops on Principles of software evolution (IWPSE) and software evolution (Evol) workshops
    August 2009
    168 pages
    ISBN:9781605586786
    DOI:10.1145/1595808
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