Improving software productivity: the selection and administration of GSA's programmers workbench at Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc
R.J. Verastegui, David John Williams · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1988
Improved software productivity is a vital concern to all data processing organizations. The Computing and Telecommunications Division (C and TD) of Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., is in the process of developing a long-term strategy for software management that has as its major goal the improvement of software productivity. As this strategy evolves, C and TD will evaluate a number of concepts, including software life-cycle methodologies, computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools, programmers' workbenches, and libraries of reusable software modules. This report focuses on only one of these areas, the programmers' workbench concept. A programmers' workbench links a variety of software productivity tools under one structure. During recent months, C and TD evaluated a workbench available through the General Services Administration (GSA). This product is targeted for the management of existing IBM MVA COBOL application systems. Our experiences with this product have been largely positive, and we intend to use the product as a key component of our overall software management program. This report addresses our experiences with the product to date and our plans for using it in the future.