SBIR/STTR Research Award
AN EXPERT SYSTEM BASED SOFTWARE SIZING TOOL
Award amount
$488,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1988Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Mcr Technology Corpon
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
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- UEI
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- Solicitation number
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- Topic code
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Research abstract
AN EXPERT SYSTEM FOR SOFTWARE SIZING WILL BE DEVELOPED BASED ON TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE: QUALITATIVE HUMANEXPERIENCE FORMALIZED AS RULES AND QUANTITATIVE EXPERIENCE GAINED IN PREVIOUS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IMPLEMENTEDAS FRAMES. THE SOFTWARE SIZING TOOL WILL OPERATE IN TWO STAGES. FIRST, IT DETERMINES A FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION OF THE SOFTWARE AS A MEANS OF ANALYZING A COMPLEX SYSTEM AND OF BREAKING THE CODE SIZING TASK INTO A SET OF SMALLER SUBTASKS. THEN IT SIZES EACH OF THE MODULES IN THE SOFTWARE SYSTEM USING ITS KNOWLEDGE BASE.
Technology keywords
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