Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool.mu.edu!think.com!rpi!uupsi!mstr!mstr!jcm From: jcm@mstr.hgc.edu (James McKim) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: The Cleanroom Methodology Keywords: Cleanroom Message-ID: <1991May9.142531.26892@mstr.hgc.edu> Date: 9 May 91 14:25:31 GMT References: Sender: Usenet@mstr.hgc.edu (Action News Central) Reply-To: jcm@mstr.hgc.edu (James McKim) Organization: The Hartford Graduate Center, Hartford CT. Lines: 39 Nntp-Posting-Host: sc3.hgc.edu In article herreid@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov ( Leon Herreid ) writes: >Colleagues, > >I'm writing a "Software Development Plan" for a system that I estimate >is a hundred thousand lines of code (a forty man-year effort). It's a >mission planning and data processing facility for a scientific >satellite. I'm interested in the Cleanroom methodology described in, >for example, > > Richard H. Cobb and Harlan D. Mills > "Engineering Software under Statistical Quality Control" > IEEE Software, pages 44-54, November 1990 > >but I can't find enough practical information on the methodology to >adapt it to my situation. Some of the article's references have >appealing titles, but my library doesn't have them. > >I'd appreciate hearing of any easily available references and any >applicable experiences you've had. I suggest you contact Mills's company Information Systems Institute 2770 Indian River Blvd Vero Beach, FL 32960 I'm sure they will be more than happy to supply references and, more importantly, they offer training. > >Leon Herreid internet: herreid@xenium.gsfc.nasa.gov Hope this helps. -- Jim *------------------------------------------------------------------------------* Jim McKim (203)-548-2458 | _Give_ people fish and they eat for a day. Internet: jcm@mstr.hgc.edu | _Teach_ people to fish and they eat for a lifetime.