The role of an information analysis center in software engineering technology transfer
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Abstract
As software engineering advances into its second decade, the ideas, principles and practices conceived in its first decade need to be assimilated into a workable set of tools and techniques that can be dispersed to software developers for their use in the production of software. The need for this technology transfer is clear and immediate. Without the proper transfer of software engineering technology from software engineering researcher to developer, the software world will be unable to extricate itself from its present predicament. This predicament has been characterized by Meyers as follows:
"The general character of the software predicament can be seen clearly, although consistent numbers with which to characterize it more precisely are hard to come by. Because less expensive hardware is bringing more applications within economic reach, the amount of software to be developed is increasing. Also because more software is already in existence, there is more to be maintained. But the productivity of programmers is improving rather slowly, especially by the standards of hardware price/performance, with the result that the overall cost of software development is tending to increase".
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Wasserman, Anthony and Belady, L. A., with contributions from Susan L. Gerhart, Edward F. Miller, Jr., William Waite and William A. Wulf, "Software Engineering: The Turning Point," Computer, September 1980, pp. 30--41.
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Meyers, Ware, "The Need for Software Engineering," Computer. February, 1978, pp. 12--26.
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McClure, Robert M., "Software---The Next Five Years," Digest of Papers Compcon Spring 76, p. 607, as cited in Ware Myers, "The Need for Software Engineering," Computer, February 1978, pp. 12--26.
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Wasserman, Anthony and Belady, L. A., with contributions from Susan L. Gerhart, Edward F. Miller, Jr., William Wait and William A. Wulf, "Software Engineering: The Turning Point," Computer, September 1978, pp. 30--41.
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Weinberg, Alvin, "Science, Government, and Information," a Report of the President's Science Advisory Committee, Panel on Science Information, January 1963, as cited in Alan Rees, "Functional Integration of Technical Libraries, Information Analysis Centers," in Alan Rees, Contemporary Problems in Technical Library and Information Center Management: A State-of-the-Art, American Society for Information Science, 1974, p. 119.
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