Nelson W. Weiderman
Software Engineering Institute
Publications by Nelson W. Weiderman
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DoD Legacy System Migration Guidelines
September 01, 1999 • Technical Note
John K. BergeyDennis B. SmithNelson W. Weiderman
This report provides a set of DoD legacy system migration guidelines.
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Options Analysis for Reengineering (OAR): Issues and Conceptual Approach
September 01, 1999 • Technical Note
John K. BergeyDennis B. SmithNelson W. Weiderman
This 1999 report outlines the foundation of a structured and coherent method, based on the "horseshoe" model, that will help practitioners make appropriate reengineering choices.
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Why Reengineering Projects Fail
April 01, 1999 • Technical Report
John K. BergeyDennis B. SmithScott R. Tilley (Florida Institute of Technoloy)
This 1999 report highlights some of the most important reasons for failures in reengineering efforts despite the best of intentions.
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Report on the Second International Workshop on Development and Evolution of Software Architectures for Product Families
May 01, 1998 • Special Report
Paul C. ClementsNelson W. Weiderman
This report summarizes the discussions and outcomes of the Second International Workshop on Development and Evolution of Software Architectures for Product Families, held in February 1998.
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Approaches to Legacy System Evolution
December 01, 1997 • Technical Report
Nelson W. WeidermanDennis B. SmithScott R. Tilley (Florida Institute of Technoloy)
This report outlines a comprehensive system evolution approach that incorporates an enterprise framework for the application of the promising technologies in the context of legacy systems.
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Distributed Object Technology with CORBA and Java: Key Concepts and Implications
June 01, 1997 • Technical Report
Kurt C. WallnauNelson W. WeidermanLinda M. Northrop
This 1997 report analyzes the impact of distributed object technology (DOT) on software engineering practice.
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Implications of Distributed Object Technology for Reengineering
June 01, 1997 • Technical Report
Nelson W. WeidermanLinda M. NorthropDennis B. Smith
This 1997 report provides definitions of various software evolution concepts and a taxonomy of activities.
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Assessing the Quality of Large, Software-Intensive Systems: A Case Study
September 01, 1995 • White Paper
Alan W. BrownDavid J. CarneyPaul C. Clements
This paper presents a case study in carrying out an audit of a large, software-intensive system.
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A Comparison of ADA 83 and C++
June 01, 1991 • Special Report
Nelson W. Weiderman
This report provides technical input to the SAF/AQK to assist that office in preparing a business case for using ADA or C++ to develop CIM systems.
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Hartstone Benchmark User's Guide, Version 1.0
March 01, 1990 • User's Guide
Patrick DonohoeRuth ShapiroNelson W. Weiderman
This 1990 report describes the structure and behavior of an implementation in the Ada programming language of one category of Hartstone requirements, the Periodic Harmonic (PH) Test Series.
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Hartstone: Synthetic Benchmark Requirements for Hard Real-Time Applications
June 01, 1989 • Technical Report
Nelson W. Weiderman
This 1989 paper defines the operational concept for a series of benchmark requirements to be used to test the ability of a system to handle hard real-time applications.
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ADA Adoption Handbook: Compiler Evaluation and Selection Version 1.0
March 01, 1989 • Technical Report
Nelson W. Weiderman
This report documents the options that are to users available when evaluating and selecting an ADA compilation system.
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System Specification Document: Shipboard Inertial Navigation System Simulator and External Computer
October 01, 1988 • Technical Report
Nelson W. WeidermanB. Craig Meyers
This document specifies high-level requirements for a shipboard inertial navigation system (INS) simulator and an external computer system that will interface with the inertial navigation system.
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ADA for Embedded Systems: Issues and Questions
December 01, 1987 • Technical Report
Nelson W. WeidermanMark W. BorgerAndrea L. Cappellini
This 1987 report addresses issues and questions related to the use of ADA for embedded systems applications.
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Annual Technical Report for ADA Embedded Systems Testbed Project
December 01, 1987 • Technical Report
Nelson W. WeidermanNeal AltmanMark W. Borger
This technical report provides an overview of the results produced in the first year of the ADA Embedded Systems Testbed Project (through September 30, 1987).
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Criteria for Constructing and Using an ADA Embedded System Testbed
November 01, 1987 • Technical Report
Nelson W. Weiderman
This report lists criteria used in five aspects of the project: hardware configuration, software configuration, real-time application, ADA real-time experiments, and benchmarking and instrumentation techniques.
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Timing Variation in Dual Loop Benchmarks
October 01, 1987 • Technical Report
Neal AltmanNelson W. Weiderman
This report disproves one of the major assumptions of dual loop benchmark testing by testing two bare computers with Ada test programs.
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Evaluation of ADA Environments, Executive Summary
March 01, 1987 • Technical Report
Nelson W. WeidermanNeal AltmanMark W. Borger
This 1987 report provides a detailed description of the Ada Environments methodology and examples of its usage.
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