The Ada Initiative Project: An Experiment in Ada Development
Larry Flood, William G. Cheadle, Robert W. Ratliff · Engineering Management Journal · 1992
The Software Center of Excellence has completed a comparison case study of software development using Ada to code a 5000-line software application program named Software Architecture Sizing and Estimating Tool (SASET). SASET had previously been fully implemented using Turbo Pascal. Because both projects required more than 30 man-months, this comparison provides a realistically scaled case study. This case study provided lessons in three areas: (1) comparisons between Ada and Turbo Pascal, (2) implementation of software requirements using Ada, (3) general principles of software project management.