Ada: Experiences and Prospects

This book presents the proceedings of the Ada-Europe International Conference held in Dublin, June 1990. These meetings constitute the most significant events in this field within Europe, and attract delegates from around the world. This year’s conference takes as its theme the impact of technical and management issues in the software engineering economics of Ada, as well as technology transfer and training. With the start of a new decade in which Ada comes of age both in terms of use and acceptability, papers also assess the impact of Ada through descriptions of projects in which Ada has been used throughout their life cycle. Discussion of topical issues affecting the development of Ada-9X is also presented.

Spis treści:
1. Graphic interface management in Ada M. A. Juan
2. What does Ada bring to the building of test programs? M. Gauthier
3. Projections from a decade of CASE D. Schaftstrom
4. Evaluation of reverse engineering CASE tools for Ada M. C. Smith
5. Introducing Ada and software engineering in the Swedish Defence Community I. Ogren
6. Lessons learned, object orientated methodologies and Ada L. Ambrose
7. Cost effectiveness of using Ada in air traffic control systems P. Andribet
8. Ada as a tool P. Andribet
9. Ada as a tool, experience and results A. M. Levy
10. Software reuse in Ada A. T. Jazaa
11. A new exception handling mechanism for Ada C. J. Antonelli
12. Controlling complexity in Ada design representation J. A. Anderson
13. An Ada-OODED application onboard a submarine J.-P. Rousselot
14. Hard deadline scheduling using Ada O. Sorensen
15. Does Ada really contribute to the development of embedded computing systems (ECS)? H. A. Neuman
16. Developing maintainable and reliable Ada software M. C. Springman
17. Ada in use, experimental design and implementation of a portable man-machine interface L. Vedani
18. Management and quality aspects in the realisation of a real-time simulator in Ada C. Lavest
19. Experiences from using Ada in a PABX project I. Haggstrom
20. Insecurities in the Ada programming language B. A. Wichmann
21. The Ada prototype project of the Defense Logistics Agency D. J. Carney
22. Reducing the risk of using Ada on board the Columbus manned space station S. R. Chandler
23. Towards supporting distributed systems in Ada 9X A. J. Wellings
24. C2P Ada shadow program A. L. Brintzenhoff
25. The Malpas analysis system for Ada R. H. Pierce
26. An Ada software port case study T. P. Reagan
27. On the translation of HOOD nets into Ada R. Di Giovanni
28. Experience and suggestions on using Ada to implement internal program representations A. G. Duncan
29. An expert system for selecting and tailoring abstract data type implementations D. Jonston
30. An Ada case study in cellular telephony testing tools H. Doscher
31. The Ada programming language for the description and simulation of wavefront array processors K. J. Cogan.