Software configuration usable techniques

Project Information

SCOUT

Grant agreement ID: 23673

Project closed

Start date 1 March 1997

End date 31 May 1998

Funded under

• Software Best Practice initiative within the framework of the specific research and technological development programme in the field of Information Technologies, 1994-1998

Total cost € 131 500,00

EU contribution € 131 500,00

Coordinated by

Infosys Srl
Italy

Objective

The potential of maintenance cost savings, release time reduction, better reuse of software artefacts, enhanced development productivity has motivated Infosys in proposing SCOUT experiment.
Through the experiment, the proposer intends to verify how software configuration management best practices can help in pursuing company objectives such as: software maintenance costs reduction, better control of the software development process, establishment of a measurement system, help in reusing software artefacts, diffusion throughout the company of a formalised way of working.

THE EXPERIMENT
The experiment named SCOUT intends to define a Configuration Management process suitable to the proposer's software development organisation. Then, by means of a selected CM tool, the process will be applied and experimented into a baseline project aimed to reengineer an off-the-shelf software package supporting civil engineers in CAD drawing and computations. The introduction of a measurement system will help in obtaining feedback on the achieved improvements as well as will establish a company metrics database.

EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
Final product assembly and delivery will occur faster, thus allowing proposer software development organisation to lessen the gap between change request (bugs or new functionalities) and its implementation. Software maintenance will also be improved since a formalised control of each artefact (code, test case, design specification etc.) concurring to final product.
The major internal impact resulting by this PIE is expected to be the set-up of the Configuration Management process, supported by a suitable Configuration Management Environment, where the defined procedures, standards and templates have been experimented and validated during the PIE, and so, can be adopted in all the other company software development projects.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › databases
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › software › software development
• social sciences › economics and business › economics › production economics › productivity

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Programme(s)

• FP4-ESSI 2 - Software Best Practice initiative within the framework of the specific research and technological development programme in the field of Information Technologies, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 1.28 - Process Improvement Experiments

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

ACM - Preparatory, accompanying and support measures

Coordinator

Infosys Srl

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via G. Amendola 89 ; 70126 Bari ; Italy
• Total cost: No data