Software engineering and the language Ada are playing a major role in the development of software and software technology for the new century. The11th Ada Europe conference shows that Ada has matured from a language, mainly of researchers and academics in the early 1980s, into a full-grown tool in software engineering practice. This volume contains a selection of contributions to the conference. They demonstrate that Ada is very beneficially used in many software development projects and is gradually becoming accepted on the scale it deserves. Papers have been selected that show that Ada is indeed ripened in all aspects of software engineering. A variety of topics is addressed: management, economics, practical experiences, numerics, and the use of Ada for real-time and distributed systems.
Author(s): M J Looney, A O'Brien (auth.), J. van Katwijk (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 603
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1992
Language: English
Pages: 328
Tags: Software Engineering; Programming Techniques; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Operating Systems
Distributed application designed using MASCOT and implemented in Ada....Pages 1-8
Real time Ada in the International Space Station freedom....Pages 9-19
Managing Ada object-oriented development....Pages 20-34
Software engineering, Ada and metrics....Pages 35-46
Using Ada source code generators in a large project....Pages 47-59
Design and code metrics through a DIANA-based tool....Pages 60-71
Using ADA in integrating ATC systems....Pages 72-79
An evaluation of ADA source code reuse....Pages 80-91
Porting embedded real-time ADA software....Pages 92-103
Reusable executives for hard real-time systems in Ada....Pages 104-115
Designing hard real-time systems....Pages 116-127
Runtime system support for data-oriented synchronization in Ada-9X....Pages 128-137
Decimal arithmetic in Ada....Pages 138-149
Task Dependence Net as a representation for concurrent Ada programs....Pages 150-164
Detection and avoidance of elaboration-time problems for multi-unit real-time Ada applications....Pages 165-181
Simulation of Mosca specifications in Ada....Pages 182-196
Considerations with regard to validation of Ada debuggers....Pages 197-213
SWG APSE test support toolset (assessment of the CAIS-A interface set)....Pages 214-229
Compilation Integration: A solution for the challenge of developing and reusing ada software on different platforms....Pages 230-241
Extending working environments for the development of reactive/adaptive systems with intelligent controls....Pages 242-256
Predicting the speedup of parallel Ada programs....Pages 257-274
A highly parallel Ada task scheduler....Pages 275-286
STRAda An Ada transformation and distribution system....Pages 287-299
AMPATS A multi processor Ada tool set....Pages 300-311
A practical use of the Ada Rendez-Vous paradigm in distributed systems....Pages 312-324
