Objective
TARSAL is a demonstration project showing the viability of transferring software reuse technology with the RSAL reuse repository tool from Sodalia SpA to other partners of various size involved in various software development activities: Brüel & Kjær (acoustics and vibration analysis), Hitec (information systems for production and quality management), CIM-EXP (software development for engineering and manufacturing). The expected result of the application of this technology is a reduction in development costs.
RSAL is currently being used within Sodalia for applications in telecommunication software. RSAL is Sodalia's cornerstone reuse platform supporting their C++ development efforts in a networked workstation environment. RSAL matches many of the needs of small to medium sized software developing organisations participating in the project. The users identified for the trial application considered that without such tools their overall software productivity and quality would be limited. Partly this is due to the fact that existing software libraries evolve into more and more complex, unmanageable entities. Although all the project partners have experimented with their own reuse ideas (libraries, etc.), they require more systematic tools to improve the process.
The Trial Application of the tool will require work from Sodalia and the University of Trento to analyse the needs of the user partners. The University has the principle role of technology transfer agent working as an intermediary between Sodalia, the technology provider, and the user partners. Use will be made of Sodalia's guidelines and methodology for RSO (reuse support organisation) to address various institutional issues. Each of the user partners will apply RSAL to construct a reusable software repository which will be used to facilitate software development. The University will assist in installation of and education in tool use. Subsequently, the users will apply the repository system to typical projects, based on a plan proposed by the University for monitoring the differences between software projects developed with and without the repository.
A preliminary quantitative analysis of needs has already been carried out and Sodalia has begun adaptation of RSAL. The applications are:
- "Triumph Analyser", by Brüel & Kjær, a system for measuring signals from microphones and accelerometers has decided to use RSAL in the framework of its, moving towards a new application framework;
- a simulation-evaluation-scheduler system for Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS). by CIM-EXP;
- "New methods for improved quality paper" by Hitec.
At the end of the project the reuse technology and the tool will be redeployed. Several dissemination activities are planned as well as a marketing plan for the tool.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
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- social sciences economics and business economics production economics productivity
- natural sciences physical sciences acoustics
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