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From: psm@manta.NOSC.MIL (Scot Mcintosh)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: DOD-STD-2167A
Message-ID: <825@manta.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 31 May 89 21:43:22 GMT
Reply-To: psm@manta.nosc.mil.UUCP (Scot Mcintosh)
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Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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Keywords:DOD 2167A

We do development to Department of Defense standards.  Has anyone ever
seen a book dealing with development under DOD-STD-2167A, the so-called
"Military Standard for Defense System Software Development"? The
standard itself is virtually useless as a tutorial.  It looks as though
it's striving to bring some software engineering concepts to the
development process, but fails miserably at communicating its
objectives and terminology (like, what's the definition of a
'capability'?).