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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FILL_THIS_FORM, INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ucbvax!SEI.CMU.EDU!Judy.Bamberger From: Judy.Bamberger@SEI.CMU.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: reminder - STARS/Users Workshop - Application deadline: 6 August 1990 Message-ID: <9007312050.AA07440@fa.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 31 Jul 90 20:50:32 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet List-Id: Call for Participation STARS / USERS WORKSHOP Dialogue with STARS Program Office and Primes Monday - Tuesday, 10 - 11 September 1990 Software Engineering Institute / Mellon Institute Pittsburgh PA 15213 412-268-7700 The STARS (Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems) Program is focused on providing the DoD software community with a software engineering environment, repository technology, and process models. STARS is sponsoring a workshop targeted toward increasing the communication between the STARS Program and the builders of software-dependent systems. This will be the first of many public discussions hosted by the STARS Program. This workshop is being hosted by the SEI. The primary purposes of this workshop are: - For organizations building software-dependent systems to review STARS Program goals, objectives, and progress and to provide input into the STARS Program plans. - For the STARS Program to validate its goals, objectives, and plans. The goals of the workshop are: - To begin an on-going dialogue with the intended users of STARS products and technologies toward a shared vision for tools and environments to support large system development effectively. - To validate STARS assumptions about the needs and requirements of organizations building large software-dependent systems. The target audience of this workshop is those who specify, buy, and use environments to build and maintain large, operational software-dependent systems. To this end, the workshop will feature: - An overview of the current direction of the STARS Program. - A discussion of key issues affecting the STARS Program, and the technical thrusts of the STARS prime contractor efforts to date. - Small discussion groups, focusing on current "hot topics" applicable to STARS, such as: reuse, process, interface standards, frameworks, distribution, reverse engineering, responsiveness of the CASE industry, and STARS commercialization strategy. - A STARS Program response to the issues raised by the workshop attendees during discussion groups. The output from this workshop will be a written summary of the meeting, including discussion group reports and STARS Program responses, as well as plans for follow-on events; this summary will be mailed to workshop attendees within 45-60 days of the workshop. STARS / Users Workshop participants are also encouraged to attend SEI's Affiliates Symposium, the annual event that provides a showcase for current SEI and Affiliate activities; it is being held following this workshop. STARS / Users Workshop participants are invited to attend this event, which is normally limited to SEI Affiliates, 12 - 13 September 1990 (tutorials are offered 11 September), and requires separate registration. Contact Helen Joyce at 412-268-6504 for registration information. Application for STARS / USERS WORKSHOP Attendance will be limited because of space, so applications must be received by MONDAY, 6 AUGUST 1990. Notification of acceptance and conference registration information will be sent out by Monday, 13 August 1990. Please complete both sides of this form and send to: Shirley Brooks Software Engineering Institute Pittsburgh PA 15213 FAX: 412-268-5758 Email: sab@sei.cmu.edu There may be a small registration fee ($40.00) to cover workshop incidentals. Applicant Information Name ____________________________________________ Title ____________________________________________ Company ____________________________________________ Division ____________________________________________ Address ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ City/State/Zip ____________________________________________ Business Phone ____________________________________________ Email ____________________________________________ To ensure a mix of interests at discussion groups, please check the area below that best represents your work: _____ STARS Prime or related (e.g., DARPA) _____ System builder _____ CASE / tool vendor _____ Other (specify) Please provide a one-paragraph discussion of your interest in the STARS Program and its products, and how you are or may be impacted by them. Please suggest one (or more) issue(s) you would like to see discussed among the workshop participants, STARS Program Office, and STARS primes. (Some candidate issues appear on page 6.) A similar workshop is intended in Spring 1991 for CASE tool vendors. *DRAFT* Workshop Program MONDAY, 10 September 1990 8:00am - 8:45am Registration and continental breakfast [SEI Cafeteria] 8:45am - 9:00am Welcome and Introductions (John Foreman, SEI) 9:00am - 9:15am DARPA/ISTO Overview (Barry Boehm, DARPA/ISTO) 9:15am - 9:40am STARS Program Overview (Jack Kramer, DARPA/ISTO) 9:40am - 10:00am Workshop Overview (John Foreman, SEI) 10:00am - 10:30am Issue: Reuse 10:30am - 11:00am BREAK [SEI 2nd floor lobby area] 11:00am - 11:30am Issue: Process 11:30am - 12:00pm Issue: Software Engineering Environment 12:00pm - 12:30pm Issue: STARS Evaluation 12:30pm - 2:00pm LUNCH [on your own] 2:00pm - 5:30pm Discussion Groups 4:00pm - 4:30pm BREAK [SEI 2nd floor lobby area] 6:00pm - 9:00pm Working dinner - initial feedback from DG leaders to STARS Program TUESDAY, 11 September 1990 7:00am - 8:30am STARS Program meeting (continued, if needed) 8:00am - 8:30am Continental breakfast [SEI Cafeteria] 8:30am - 10:30am Discussion Groups (continued) 10:30am - 11:00am BREAK [SEI 2nd floor lobby area] 11:00am - 12:30pm Discussion Group Reports 12:30pm - 2:30pm LUNCH [Syria Mosque, banquet hall, lower level, with SEI Affiliates Symposium] 2:30pm - 4:30pm Wrap-up - STARS initial responses to workshop issues Candidate Issues for Discussion Groups The following list identifies candidate issues that may be appropriate for discussion by workshop attendees. When filling out the "issues to be discussed" section of the application form, feel free to select one or more of these issues, or add your own to this candidate list. 1. How do industry and government users get involved with the STARS Program? Set up cooperative efforts? Affect internal R&D activities to take the most advantage of STARS products and technologies? 2. "I already have a significant investment in process and tools, and support for both. How do I capitalize on that, given STARS?" 3. What message can the STARS Program and system houses take to the CASE vendors? 4. Are there two distinct (and conflicting) CASE cultures emerging - the "front-end CASE" versus the "back-end CASE"? Is there a gap between the two? Where are other gaps? Which gap deserves the highest priority (i.e., should be addressed first)? What really is a "gap" (e.g., what does it mean to "integrate" tools)? What mechanism exists to confirm that a gap has been filled effectively? 5. What issues must be addressed when integrating multi-method/paradigm tools and multi-lingual systems? What support must be provided by an environment? 6. Where should the environment support (automation) end and the user manipulation (brute force) begin? For the purposes of automation and standardization, is STARS examining the highest leverage activities involved in software development/maintenance? 7. Economics - what business environment can be assumed "after STARS"? 8. How does STARS converge on the "right" building blocks for environments, for example: - Standard interfaces (POSIX, X11, SQL, MOTIF, CAIS, PCTE, ATIS, etc) - Program language bindings (Ada, C++, etc) What mechanisms should there be for interfacing between tools/languages coming from different basic paradigms (e.g., an Ada binding for X Windows)? 9. What environment support is required specifically for the development and maintenance of embedded systems? For distributed targets? Which of those issues should STARS be pursuing? 10. What should environments have to support reuse of all levels of artifacts (e.g., automated support for reasonable documentation, testing, recording of history, design records, full/formal specifications)? 11. What is STARS doing about system development processes that emphasize interactive models of designing and implementing (e.g., prototyping)? From: JBamberger - STARS / USERS '90 Software Engineering Institute - 5409 Pittsburgh PA 15213