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Software engineering
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
|---|---|
| Author | Hiott, Jim Plumb, Allan Fridge II, Ernest M. Golej, Jim |
| Copyright Year | 1993 |
| Description | Today's software systems generally use obsolete technology, are not integrated properly with other software systems, and are difficult and costly to maintain. The discipline of reverse engineering is becoming prominent as organizations try to move their systems up to more modern and maintainable technology in a cost effective manner. The Johnson Space Center (JSC) created a significant set of tools to develop and maintain FORTRAN and C code during development of the space shuttle. This tool set forms the basis for an integrated environment to reengineer existing code into modern software engineering structures which are then easier and less costly to maintain and which allow a fairly straightforward translation into other target languages. The environment will support these structures and practices even in areas where the language definition and compilers do not enforce good software engineering. The knowledge and data captured using the reverse engineering tools is passed to standard forward engineering tools to redesign or perform major upgrades to software systems in a much more cost effective manner than using older technologies. The latest release of the environment was in Feb. 1992. |
| File Size | 1215312 |
| Page Count | 10 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19930022965 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t2j72cb0h |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1993-02-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Computer Programming And Software Computer Programming Cost Effectiveness Ada Programming Language Reverse Engineering Space Shuttles Organizations C Programming Language Translating Applications Programs Computers Compilers Fortran Programming Environments Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |