NASA Software Productivity Consortium Affiliation

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NASA Software Productivity Consortium Affiliation
NASA IVV Facility

• NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance
• Software Assurance Symposium
• September 5, 2001
• Cynthia Calhoun
• NASA IVV Facility
• Fairmont, WV
• [phone]
• Cynthia.Calhoun_at_ivv.nasa.gov
• www.ivv.nasa.gov

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Purpose

• Provide an avenue for NASA software programs to
  utilize Software Productivity Consortium (SPC)
  processes, methods, tools and services that will
  significantly improve their ability to build high
  integrity, reliable, and safe software intensive
  systems

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Objectives

• Gain access to industry perspectives and plans
  for software and systems engineering process
  technology
• Provide SPC resources (guidebooks, technical
  reports, case studies, and training videos) via
  the NASA Software Working Group to NASA software
  engineering personnel
• Participate in SPC workshops, conferences, and
  executive roundtables to stay abreast of current
  software engineering technology trends
• Incorporate knowledge gained into existing and
  future software process improvement activities at
  the NASA Centers

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History

• SPC membership originally established for NASA
  under the Glenn Research Center in June 1996 via
  a Center Initiative
• Gretchen Davidian was NASA liaison to SPC
• NASA liaison position transferred to IVV
  Facility in May 1997

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SPC Overview

• Unique, nonprofit partnership of industry,
  government, and academia
• Develop processes, methods, tools, and supporting
  services to help their members and affiliates
  build high-quality, component-based systems, and
  continuously advance their systems and software
  engineering maturity
• Membership is open to all U.S. or Canadian-based
  companies, government agencies, and academic
  organizations
• Currently stands at 95 members (e.g. - ATT,
  Kodak, Unisys, Boeing, Draper Labs, FAA, Air
  Force, Navy, Army, Carnegie Mellon Univ, John
  Hopkins Univ, USC)

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Benefits

• SPC membership will aid NASA programs with
• Integrating systems and software disciplines
• Leveraging model-based and component-based
  development methods within an architectural
  framework
• Complying with various software and system
  development standards, maturity models, and
  quality standards
• Defining, collecting, analyzing, and applying
  measurements for management, process improvement,
  quality improvement, systems engineering, and
  software development activities
• Understanding technology trends and the impact on
  NASA programs

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Products/Services
Samples

• Project Risk Management
• Integrated Systems and Software Engineering
  Process
• CMMI
• Higher-level software maturity
• Systems engineering maturity
• Establishing a Metrics Program
• Product Line Management and Engineering (Reuse
  Adoption)

• Compliance Framework Mapping Tool (Quagmap )
• Software estimation
• Consortium Requirements Engineering
• Test Automation Framework
• Defect Prevention
• Consortium Approach to Framework Engineering

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Technology Transfer

• Various products and services from the Consortium
  utilized by NASA programs
• Reuse-Driven Software Processes Guidebook
• Product Line Management and Engineering
• Product Line Definition Workshop
• Reuse Economics Spreadsheet Model Tool and User
  Manual
• Consortium Object-Oriented Software Engineering
  Using UML (COSUML) Guidebook
• Object-Oriented Approach for Software Intensive
  Systems (OOASIS) Method
• IVV Return-On-Investment Research Study
• Practical Software Measurement Guidebook
• Practical Software Measurement Insight
  Workstation Tool

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Events

• NASA personnel participated in the following
  activities with or at the SPC
• 2001
• SPC Eighth Annual Executive Executive Roundtable
• National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) and
  Software Productivity Consortium Process
  Improvement Workshop
• 1999
• SPC Product Line Definition Workshop (Goddard
  Space Flight Center, Information Systems Center)
• 1998
• SPC Sixth Annual Member Forum
• Software Reuse Adoption Informational Meeting
  (Goddard Space Flight Center, Information Systems
  Center)
• 1997
• SPC Fifth Annual Member Forum
• SPC Fifth Annual Executive Roundtable

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Account Registration

• SPC For Members Only web site is an on-line
  repository of guidebooks, technical reports,
  training materials, briefings, trip reports, and
  a host of other assets useful in system software
  development and process improvement programs
• NASA civil servants must register for an account
  to access the SPC For Members Only web site
• Non-civil servants can register as a guest to
  access the on-line Catalog of Products and
  Services

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Web Sites

• Visit the following web sites for more
  information on the SPC or the NASA SPC
  Affiliation Membership
• Software Productivity Consortium
• http//www.software.org
• NASA Point of Contact Mike Egnotovich -
  egnotovi_at_software.org
• NASA SPC Affiliation Membership
• http//spc.ivv.nasa.gov
• SPC Point of Contact Cynthia Calhoun -
  calhoun_at_ivv.nasa.gov

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