Objective
TransAction is a database technology company founded in 1987. The products of TransAction are: (i) the relational database system TransBase and (ii) custom database application development on behalf of our customers. The primary product, named TransBase, is a relational database system available on a variety of different system platforms ranging from Apple Macintosh to main frame VMS. Users expect identical quality, performance and programming interfaces on all those platforms.
One of the most important requirements is to assure quality in a multi-version, multi-platform environment. The importance of improving processes to ensure and increase quality in software development is not only recognised inside our company, but also expected by our customers who rely heavily on the quality of our software once it is released. Because the software is a basic part of their customer deliverables software quality of TransBase is very critical for our company and our customers.
This PIE project has the following goals:
Increase our software quality by improving the software development process. In our case, this means establishing programming conventions, improving source code control, and establishing effective multi-platform validation procedures.
Reduce manpower costs for platform-specific overhead.
THE EXPERIMENT
Establish design and programming conventions that are obligatory for each programmer and system designer. Try to eliminate platform-specific problems as early as possible.
Improve configuration management. Replace or extend the current source code administration system by a more powerful system suited to handle multi-platform aspects and capable of handling code-related documentation and/or platform-specific test results.
Improve the testability and comparability of the developed software; in particular, develop test suites which are platform-independent and can be run on all supported platforms to guarantee identical behaviour of the software.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
We expect: to improve and stabilise our development process by establishing standards, to reduce manpower costs for platform specific overhead from around 50% to 30% or less, leading to more available capacity for product development, Reduce reaction time to customer maintenance requests while reducing maintenance charges.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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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.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software development
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases relational databases
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81739 Muenchen
Germany
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