Software engineering and Ada training
Sue Legrand, Glenn B. Freedman · 1988
The choice of software engineering with Ada for projects such as the Space Station has resulted in government and industrial group considering training programs that at once assist workers to become familiar with both a software "culture" and the intricacies of a new compute language.Training costs can be high and management is often reluctant to invest in something as nebulous as "software engineering" training."After all," a manager might ask, "isn't Ada just another language?Why can't we teach it in three days, like FORTRAN?" Clearly, software engineering with Ada requires more than three days in class and three hours on a computer.But, how much time does it take?How much should an organization invest in training?How should the training be structured?Software engineering is an emerging, dynamic discipline.Neither industry, government nor university programs are well established in this area, nor is there consensus about who should know what and when should they know it.The Information Systems Services Group of the NASA Space Station Program Office (SSPO) asked expert advice regarding Software Engineering and Ada training.The authors set out to provide a