Software archeology: a case study in software quality assurance and design
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES
Ideally, quality is designed into software, just as quality is designed into hardware. However, when dealing with legacy systems, demonstrating that the software meets required quality standards may be difficult to achieve. As the need to demonstrate the quality of existing software was recognized at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), an effort was initiated to uncover and demonstrate that legacy software met the required quality standards. This effort led to the development of a reverse engineering approach referred to as software archaeology. This paper documents the software archaeology approaches used at LANL to document legacy software systems. A case study for the Robotic Integrated Packaging System (RIPS) software is included.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- OSTI ID:
- 962292
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-09-01250; LA-UR-09-1250; TRN: US200919%%56
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ASME IDETC/CIE Conference ; August 30, 2009 ; San Diego, CA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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