Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!amdcad!sun!wdl1!rion From: rion@wdl1.UUCP (Rion Cassidy) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Looking for references to saving money and time Message-ID: <3850001@wdl1.UUCP> Date: 10 Dec 87 21:31:24 GMT References: <1826@culdev1.UUCP> Lines: 30 Here in the bay area we have a mass trasit system called BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), probably you've heard of it. Yesterday I heard on the news that a new computer control system for BART was five years behind schedule and $25 million over budget. While I have no idea of who is doing this work and what methods they have employed, I think that this should serve as an example that there are large software projects currently under progress out there that need help, and software engineering (of some sort) could easily be that help. A couple of months ago I went a seminar put on by a local ACM chapter. The speaker was Tom Gilb, and from the course material I have found what I believe some of the more significant references. M. E. Fagan, "Design and Code Inspection to reduce errors in program development" IBM systems Journal, 15, No. 3, 1976. Mills,Hardin,Dyer,Michael,Quinnan: Articles on Evolutionary Delivery, IBM Systems Journal, No. 4, 1980. Wong Carolyn, "A Successful Software Development", IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, Nov. 1984. Gilb, Tom,"Software Engineering using Design by Objectives", ACM Software Engineering Notes, April 1984, pp.104-113. Rion Cassidy rion@ford-wdl1.arpa ...{sgi,sun,ucbvax}!wdl1!rion