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From: marick@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Brian Marick)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Cleanroom Software Engineering
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.145946.29831@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 91 14:59:46 GMT
References: <1991Mar7.151022.8531@cbnewsc.att.com>
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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bwf@cbnewsc.att.com (bernard.w.fecht) writes:

>Also, does anyone have good references and/or experiences with "cleanroom"
>that they might relay to me?  Thanks.

Cleanroom Software Engineering
Harlan D. Mills, Michael Dyer, and Richard Linger
IEEE Software, September, 1987

Certifying the Reliability of Software. P. Allen Currit, Michael
Dyer, and Harlan D. Mills.  Transactions on Software Engineering.
V. SE-12, No 1, January 1986.

Cleanroom Software Development, An Empirical Evaluation.  Richard W.
Selby, Victor R. Basili, and F. Terry Baker.  Transactions on Software
Engineering, V. SE-13, No. 9, September 1987.

R. C. Linger and H. D. Mills. "A Case Study in Cleanroom Software
Engineering: The IBM COBOL Structuring Facility."  Proceedings
of COMPSAC '88, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1988.

Harlan D. Mills and J. H. Poore, "Bringing Software Under
Statistical Quality Control," Quality Progress, November 1988, pp. 52-55.

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If anyone has any references or experiences that address 

1. the *cost* of cleanroom engineering
2. use of cleanroom during maintenance

please post.  I have heard, through the grapevine, of costs many times
higher than traditional methods, but haven't seen anything published.

Brian Marick
Motorola @ University of Illinois
marick@cs.uiuc.edu, uiucdcs!marick