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Home > CrossTalk May 2003

CrossTalk - The Journal of Defense Software Engineering
  May 2003  
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Table of Contents Download Entire Issue (may03.pdf PDF 864KB)
  Best Practices  
  * Integrated Metrics for CMMI and SW-CMM  (natwick.pdf PDF 140KB)
by Gary Natwick
The Harris Corporation used a Goal-Question-Metric approach to develop an integrated metrics set that helped it achieve Capability Maturity Model for Software Level 4.
 
 
  Software Engineering Technology  
  * Information Assurance Post 9-11: Enabling Homeland Security  (carey.pdf PDF 67KB)
by David W. Carey
Protecting the U.S. homeland requires information sharing on an unprecedented scale among agencies.
 
  * Securing Your Organization's Information Assets  (brykczynski.pdf PDF 70KB)
by Dr. Bill Brykczynski and Bob Small
This article details the standard ISO 17799 "Code of Practice for Information Security Management" and British Standard 7799-2 "Information Security Management Systems" that provide frameworks for implementing security management systems.
 
  * Improving Processes for Commercial Off-the-Shelf-Based Systems  (tyson.pdf PDF 213KB)
by Dr. Barbara Tyson, Cecilia Albert, and Lisa Brownsword
These authors present how the Capability Maturity Model Integration should be interpreted for a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)-based system, including describing the Evolutionary Process for Integrating COTS-Based Systems.
 
  * Planning and Managing the Development of Complex Software Systems  (bechtold.pdf PDF 61KB)
by Dr. Richard Bechtold
This article details an alternative to the "grand implementation approach" that leverages grand and incremental design, incremental development, early incremental testing, rapid risk reduction, and the re-calibrating of estimating data.
 
  * Interface-Driven, Model-Based Test Automation  (blackburn.pdf PDF 108KB)
by Dr. Mark R. Blackburn, Robert D. Busser, and Aaron M. Nauman
Test engineers can develop more reusable models with the interface-driven approach described in this article, which combines requirements modeling to support automated test-case and test-driver generation.
 
 
  Open Forum  
  * Deployment: Moving Technology Into the Operational Air Force  (dufaud.pdf PDF 69KB)
by Lt. Col. Scott B. Dufaud (Ret.) and Dr. Lynn Robert Carter
To get the full measure of value from our technologies, close attention must be paid to a host of issues to ensure that daily operations are enhanced, much the same way troops deploy for combat.
 
 
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