From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,35996c7953b416c2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,35996c7953b416c2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,35996c7953b416c2,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: ff6c8,35996c7953b416c2,start X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,35996c7953b416c2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: reuseic@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (Reuse News) Subject: Software Engineering News Date: 1996/10/14 Message-ID: <53tlls$67v@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> X-Deja-AN: 189337711 content-type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 organization: ReuseIC mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.edu Date: 1996-10-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Software Engineering News Brief Week Ending: October 11, 1996. ************************************************ ADA AND REUSE NEWS BRIEFS COMBINING AND EXPANDING The bi-weekly news services for Ada News and Reuse News have been combined and the news service's scope has been expanded. Effective with this release, news briefs will provide information on the following Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) initiatives: Ada, software reuse, I*CASE, DII, COE. News summaries will be issued weekly. SOURCE: Ada Information Clearinghouse, Reuse Information Clearinghouse. info@sw-eng.falls-chruch.va.us ************************************************* MODELING LANGUAGE PROPOSED Rational Software Corporation announced that Texas Instruments Software is collaborating with Rational to define the United Modeling Language (UML), a graphical object-modeling language developed to eliminate object-oriented method fragmentation. Texas Instruments joins Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Oracle in contributing to the UML, which will be submitted as a joint proposal on standard object models and notation to the Object Management Group (OMG). Texas Instruments has been working with Rational to refine the UML's capabilities for supporting advanced repository architectures and component specification as well as modeling workflow. The joint proposal will be presented to the OMG at the end of this year for formal standardization. The OMG, of Framingham, MA, is a consortium of vendors that are jointly developing a set of standards for distributed object technologies. For more information contact: Rational Software Corporation 2800 San Tomas Expressway Santa Clara, CA 95051-0951 800/RAT-1212 product_info@rational.com SOURCE: Rational Online News: 10/7/96 Edition; rational_news-owner@rational.com. ********************************************************** STUDY EVIDENCE SUPPORTS BENEFICIARY CLAIMS OF REUSE The results of a recent study at the University of Maryland introduced much-needed empirical data to support the claims that software reuse can reduce defect density and rework, and increase productivity in an object-oriented framework. Project leaders Victor Basili, Lionel Briand, and Walcelio Melo sought to produce hard evidence to support claims that reuse is an effective strategy for building high-quality software. Data was collected for four months in late 1994 on the development of eight small (less than 15,000 SLOC) systems with equivalent functional requirements. All eight projects were developed using the Waterfall-style Software Engineering Life Cycle Model, and OO design method, and the C++ programming language. The study found significant benefits from reuse in terms of reduced defect density and rework as well as increased productivity. According to the project leaders, the results can also help software organizations assess new reuse technologies against a quantitative and objective baseline of comparison. For more information on the study and its results, the project leaders may be e-mailed at the following addresses: Victor Basili, basili@cs.umd.edu; Lionel Briand, briand@iese.fhg.de; and Walcelio Melo, wmelo@crim.ca. SOURCE: Basili, V., Briand, L., and Melo, W., "How Reuse Influences Productivity," Communications of the ACM, October 1996: 39 (10), pp. 104-116. *************************************************************************** REUSABLE JAVA COMPONENTS AT THE CENTER OF INTERNET/DESKTOP INTEGRATION Reusable Java components that will have the ability to communicate with one another is at the center of a team effort by IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Apple to integrate the Internet with the corporate desktop. IBM recently released an OpenDoc component package that will allow developers to move Internet content, such as Java applets or ActiveX components, into desktop applications. This intergration is the first step in an effort to combine OpenDoc technology with Sun's Java Beans initiative. OpenDoc is a standard architecture for plugging together software components to create distributed applications. The Java Beans initiative is aimed at creating a set of component application programming interfaces for the Java platform that will allow developers to build reusable Java components that can communicate with one another. SOURCE: Gaudin, Susan, "Now Serving: OpenDoc/Java Blend," ComputerWorld, 30 (39), p. 6. **************************************************************************** The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Software Engineering Information Center (SEIC) "Software Engineering News Brief" is a compilation of summaries from software engineering-related articles in trade magazines, newsletters and press releases. The DISA SEIC welcomes suggestions for, and pointers to, software engineering-related articles. 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