| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/J18057/01 |
| Title: |
PRICES: PRODUCTIVITY, INTEGRITY AND CAPABILITY ENHANCEMENT FOR SOFTWARE - IED4/1/9202 |
| Principal Investigator: |
Hall, Professor P |
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| Department: |
Computing |
| Organisation: |
Open University |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 February 1994 |
Ends: |
30 April 1997 |
Value (£): |
149,447
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| Aerospace, Defence and Marine |
Information Technologies |
| R&D |
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Develop a generic model of the software development process optimising the human resources, tools and development methods through simplifying or automating those areas where errors are introduced, thus enhancing both integrity and productivity. A Code of Practice will be produced appealing to a broad spectrum of software developers and procurers. Progress:The project started by conducting a wide survey of the industrial developers of safety-critical software, and their development practices. Since then the project has been attacking the problem of increasing safety and productivity on the three fronts of process modelling, human factors, and tools and methods. The thesis of the project is that if we focus on the error-prone stages of the development process, and either automate these or support them through appropriate tools, then we must reduce error and increase safety, and also save on development effort. We have adopted an object-based process modelling formalism, and are using this for representing both the methodology and its use of tools, and the roles of humans in the development process. The integration of these two different viewpoints is proving to be difficult, and to help the integration we have started on the first drafting of the Code of Practice. We are now starting upon the attribution of the process models so that we can quantify the results of taking particular actions. We are continuing with in-depth interviews with developers to determine the consequences of particular development practices and thereby calibrate our model. We are also carrying out some direct measurement of tools and methods and their use, as well as searching the literature for other projects who have done so.
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