Software Engineering for Large Software Systems

These proceedings include tutorials and papers presented at the Sixth CSR Confer­ ence on the topic of Large Software Systems. The aim of the Conference was to identify solutions to the problems of developing and maintaining large software systems, based on approaches which are currently being undertaken by software practitioners. These proceedings are intended to make these solutions more widely available to the software industry. The papers from software practitioners describe: • important working systems, highlighting their problems and successes; • techniques for large system development and maintenance, including project management, quality management, incremental delivery, system security, in­ dependent V & V, and reverse engineering. In addition, academic and industrial researchers discuss the practical impact of current research in formal methods, object-oriented design and advanced environ­ ments. The keynote paper is provided by Professor Brian Warboys of ICL and the University of Manchester, who masterminded the development of the ICL VME Operating System, and the production of the first database-driven software en­ gineering environment (CADES). The proceedings commence with reports of the two tutorial sessions which preceded the conference: • Professor Keith Bennett of the Centre for Software Maintenance at Durham University on Software Maintenance; • Professor John McDermid of the University of York on Systems Engineering Environments for High Integrity Systems. The remaining papers deal with reports on existing systems (starting with Professor Warboys' keynote paper), approaches to large systems development, methods for large systems maintenance and the expected impact of current research. Front Matter....Pages i-x The Software Maintenance of Large Software Systems: Management, Methods and Tools....Pages 1-26 Integrated Project Support Environments: General Principles and Issues in the Development of High Integrity Systems....Pages 27-83 Reflections on a large software development project....Pages 84-95 A Large Embedded System Project Case Study....Pages 96-121 Design of A Flight and Radar Data Processing System for the Support of Air Traffic Control....Pages 122-140 An Architecture for Multi-Vendor Systems....Pages 141-155 Incremental Development and Delivery for Large Software Systems....Pages 156-195 Independence in Verification and Validation....Pages 196-208 The Recovery of Software Projects....Pages 209-219 Software Reliability Improvement - the Fault Free Factory (A Case Study)....Pages 220-235 Structuring Trust in A Large General Purpose Operating System....Pages 236-251 Software Re-Engineering - An Intermediate Approach....Pages 252-266 The Maintenance of Large, Real-Time Embedded Systems From the Perspective of Knowledge Engineering....Pages 267-280 A Practical Procedure for Introducing Data Collection (with examples from Maintenance)....Pages 281-304 Process Support Environments and Their Application to Large Scale Systems....Pages 305-314 Object-Oriented Design: A Teenage Technology....Pages 315-324 Software Architecture Modelling....Pages 325-344 Mathematics as a Management Tool: Proof Rules for Promotion....Pages 345-365 Back Matter....Pages 367-373