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Home > CrossTalk May 2002

CrossTalk - The Journal of Defense Software Engineering
  May 2002  
< Apr 2002 Issue    May CoverMay Backcover    Jun 2002 Issue >
 
 
Table of Contents Download Entire Issue (may02.pdf PDF 974KB)
  Best Practices  
  * A Study of Best Practice Adoption by Defense Acquisition Programs  (turner.pdf PDF 225KB)
by Dr. Richard Turner
This article presents the results of one study to measure the degree to which best practice adoption is used in existing defense acquisitions.
 
  * Achieving CMMI Level 5 Improvements with MBASE and the CeBASE Method  (boehm.pdf PDF 123KB)
by Dr. Barry Boehm, Dr. Daniel Port, Apurva Jain, and Dr. Victor Basili
When the spiral model and MBASE are combined with the Experience Factory, the result is the unified Center for Empirically Based Software Engineering method.
 
 
  Software Engineering Technology  
  * U.S. Defense Department Requirements for Information Security  (fitzgerald.pdf PDF 61KB)
by Kevin J. Fitzgerald
To protect against cyberattacks, the DoD needs secure information management systems for increasingly sensitive shared data, while also protecting critical infrastructures.
 
  * What is Software Quality Assurance?  (rosenberg.pdf PDF 75KB)
by Dr. Linda H. Rosenberg
This article paints the entire picture of software quality assurance, including safety, reliability, independent verification and validation, and metrics.
 
  * Surviving the Top 10 Challenges of Software Test Automation  (rice.pdf PDF 53KB)
by Randall W. Rice
This article examines trouble spots in capture/playback test automation tools in an effort to mitigate the risks of tool abandonment.
 
 
  Open Forum  
  * Information Security System Rating and Ranking  (vaughn.pdf PDF 77KB)
by Dr. Rayford B. Vaughn Jr., Ambareen Sira, and Dr. David A. Dampier
Readers learn how to better apply measures or metrics to reliably depict the assurance associated with a specific hardware and software architecture.
 
 
  Online Article  
  * Defeating the Forces of Nature: Two Workshops on Spiral Development  (hansen.pdf PDF 61KB)
by Dr. Wilfred J. Hansen
These workshops recommend a number of steps to aid in Department of Defense acquisitions.
 
 
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