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Sixth Hour Lecture10:30 11:20 am, September 9

Framework for a SoftwareManagement Process Artifacts of the Process

(Part II, Chapter 6 of Royce book)

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Topics for Today

Artifact Sets Management Artifacts Engineering Artifacts

Pragmatic Artifacts

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Review - Phases of the Life-cycle

Process

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Overview of the Artifact Sets

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The Five Artifact Sets

Requirements Set Design Set Implementation Set Deployment Set

Management Set

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Management Set

Captures contracts among project personnel.

Management, architects, designers, testers, marketers,administrators, . Funding authorities, other management, regulators,

customers,

Contains plans , resource requirements, budgets, costs, schedules, milestones,releases ,

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Requirements Set

Forms the basis for evaluating the other three engineering artifact sets (design,implementation, deployment sets).

Forms the basis for test cases.

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Design Set

Contain Design model

Test model Architecture description

Future automation should support:

Complexity analysis Style analysis Consistency analysis

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Implementation Set

Contains Source code

Executables for stand-alone testing Custom components Application program interfaces

Data files

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Deployment Set

Contains User deliverables

Executable code Target-specific data Run-time files

User manual

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Artifact Set Tools

Management Set tools. Scheduling, work flow, defect tracking, change management,

documentation, resource management, presentation tools.

Requirements Set tools. Requirements management tools. Design Set tools.

Visual modeling tools. Implementation Set tools.

Compiler/debugger tools, code analysis tools, test coverageanalysis tools, and test management tool. Deployment Set tools.

Test automation tools, network management, commercialcomponents (operating systems, GUIs DBMSs, networks,middleware, and installation tools.

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Life-cycle Focus on Artifact Sets

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Life-cycle Evolution of the Sets

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Management Artifacts

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Business Case

Transforms the vision into economic terms. Release Specifications

Includes evaluation criteria for intermediate and finalreleases.

Software Development Plan (SDP) Schedules, releases, processes, resources, environments,

organization, key personnel, manning, changemanagement, quality control, standards and procedures.

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Management Artifacts (contd)

Release Descriptions Functions, performance evaluations, test results,

issues, follow-up action needs. Status Assessments

Include review of resources, personnel/staffing

actions, financial data, top issues, action items,technical progress, major milestone plans andresults, customer issues, look-ahead.

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Management Artifacts (contd)

Software Change Orders Software Problem Reports and Tracking

Deployment Document Transition plans, marketing plans, sales plans, and

training course plans.

Environment

Defines the development and maintenanceenvironments. Includes requirements management,visual modeling, document automation, host and target

programming tools, automated regression testing,integrated change management and defect tracking.

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Artifact Sequences

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Engineering Artifacts Vision Document

The source for capturing the expectations amongstakeholders.

Written from the users perspective. Focus is on essential features of the system, and the

acceptable levels of quality. Includes the operational concept.

Architecture Description Software Users Manual

Contains installation procedures, usage procedures andguidance, operational constraints, and a user interfacedescription.

Written by the test team.

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Artifacts Summary

Artifacts of modern software development may bedivided into five sets Management, Requirements, Design, Implementation

and Deployment.

Emphasis changes from the Engineering Stage tothe Production Stage, but all artifacts shouldevolve as work progresses.

Artifacts provide the basis for managingdevelopment of the products of the software

project.

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Assignment for Next Class

Read Chapter 6 of Royce book, onartifacts of the process. Learn the names of the five artifact sets for

modern software management. Learn the nine elements of the management

artifact set. Read Chapter 8, Calling the Shot of Brooks

book. If assigned to you, prepare the Brooks Chapter 8 20

minute report (for presentation to the class).