Objective
MAZ is a development and system house founded in 1990 by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The main objective of MAZ is a product oriented technology transfer in the area of microelectronics applications. MAZ has undergone a BOOTSTRAP assessment in December 1994. As a result of this a quality system based on the V-Modell is currently being installed, which will improve the software development process significantly. Within this PIE, the reachability of the next milestone, i.e. introduction of OOA/OOD and configuration management methodologies, procedures, and techniques, shall be evaluated. If the PIE is successful these techniques will be trained and used throughout the department.
THE EXPERIMENT
The experiment will be carried out in five major phases. During Phase I all organisational issues of the project will be settled. Phase II deals with the selection of appropriate methods and tools. A first introduction of the selected methods and tools in context of a strategic baseline project will be executed in phase III and evaluated. Phase IV is concerned with a broader introduction. The latter two phases comprise extensive training for the staff members and augmentation of the software production guidelines and the quality manual. During Phase V a BOOTSTRAP assessment will be carried out in order to evaluate the results of the experiment. The baseline project is a system for knowledge-based machine monitoring, fault diagnosis, and maintenance support (known as DiaMon). The software for this system is developed in C++ using the object-oriented paradigm. The software is consisting of roughly 120 modules, 20 percent of which are multiply reused under different configurations. The experiment will focus on this latter part of the software because this part would benefit most and has the most significance for the successful evaluation of techniques and tools.
MAZ Hamburg GmbH employs about 100 people, 10 of them are involved in the DiaMon team.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
During the experiment methods and procedures for object oriented analysis/design and configuration management as well as appropriate tools will be introduced. The overall goal of the experiment is to increase the maturity level of the software development process with respect to configuration management and change, requirement analysis and definition, as well as architectural design to 2.5 up to 3 according to the BOOTSTRAP ranking.
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21079 Hamburg
Germany
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