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=0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_PCNT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: ff6c8,dc248687987b474c,start X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,dc248687987b474c,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dc248687987b474c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,dc248687987b474c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,dc248687987b474c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: cseic@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (CSEIC) Subject: CFCSEIC News Briefs, W/E Oct. 17, 1997 Date: 1997/10/17 Message-ID: <628grf$hv6@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> X-Deja-AN: 281305726 Organization: Computer Systems Engineering Information Clearinghouse Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.edu Date: 1997-10-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Center for Computer Systems Engineering News Briefs Week Ending: October 17, 1997 ******************************************************************** CONTENTS: DMS GETS MAIL GUARD, FIREWALL ADTEST: A TEST DATA GENERATION SUITE FOR ADA SOFTWARE SYSTEMS PLANNING EFFICIENT SOFTWARE TESTS ULTRASPARC-III MICROPROCESSOR PRODUCTION SET FOR 1998 ******************************************************************** DMS GETS MAIL GUARD, FIREWALL Topic: DII Trusted Information Systems, Inc., has completed work on a Defense Message System (DMS) version of its Gauntlet firewall. This release, funded by the National Security Agency under a contract awarded last spring, is a Fortezza-enabled X.400 mail guard and firewall. The contractor will augment the release with software upgrades for X.500 directory services next year. A DISA official said X.500 support is a requirement for DMS firewalls. SOURCE: Jackson, William, "DMS gets mail guard, firewall," Government Computer News, October 13, 1997, v 16, n 31, p. 40. http://www.gcn.com ******************************************************************** ADTEST: A TEST DATA GENERATION SUITE FOR ADA SOFTWARE SYSTEMS Topic: Ada, Software Engineering A paper in the August issue of "IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering," examines the design of the software system, ADTEST, for generating test data for programs developed in Ada 83. The key feature of this system is that the problem of test data generation is treated entirely as a numerical optimization problem and, as a consequence, this method does not suffer from difficulties commonly found in symbolic execution systems. The system has been tested on large Ada programs (60,000 lines of code) and found to reduce the effort required to test programs as well as provide an increase in test coverage. SOURCE: Gallagher, M.J., & Narasimhan, V.L., "ADTEST: A Test Data Generation Suite for Ada Software Systems," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, August 1997, v 23, n 8, pp. 473-484. http://computer.org *********************************************************************** PLANNING EFFICIENT SOFTWARE TESTS Topic: Software Engineering Software testing consumes 30%-70% of an organization's software development resources. However, many faults remain undetected and are later found in the field. To improve customer satisfaction and reduce development costs, it is imperative that software teams reduce testing costs, reduce product introduction delays, and send fewer faults to the field. The Robust Testing Method*, based on the special properties of orthogonal arrays, can achieve these goals by generating test cases that are more efficient and thorough in finding faults. In many cases, the Robust Testing method has increased tester productivity by a factor of two or better. SOURCE: Phadke, Madhav, "Planning Efficient Software Tests," Crosstalk, October, 1997, v 10, n 10, pp. 11-15. http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/Crosstalk/crostalk.html *"Robust Testing Method" is a trademark of Phadke Associates, Inc. ********************************************************************* ULTRASPARC-III MICROPROCESSOR PRODUCTION SET FOR 1998 Topic: COE Sun Microsystems has announced that it expects to begin sample production of its next-generation UltraSPARC-III microprocessor by the summer of 1998, with the first systems emerging six to nine months later -- or sometime around early 1999. Gary Lauterbach, chief architect of the UltraSPARC-III, says the chip will have a clock speed in excess of 600 MHz (Megahertz) and, thanks to a design that is "focused on scalability," will be able to scale to over 1,000 processors in a single system. He says the new .25 micron manufacturing process used in the UltraSPARC-III is a "major driver" behind the performance increases, calling them "a two to three times leap from the previous generation [the UltraSPARC-II]." SOURCE: McMillan, Robert, SunWorld News, http://www.sun.com/sunworldonline/swol-10-1997/swol-10-ultra3.html ************************************************************************* The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Center for Computer Systems Engineering Information Clearinghouse (CFCSEIC) "Center for Computer Systems Engineering News Briefs" is a compilation of summaries from software engineering-related articles in trade magazines, newsletters and press releases. The DISA CFCSEIC welcomes suggestions for and pointers to software engineering-related articles. 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