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A Research Project with Important Practitioner-Oriented Findings.

The article discusses a computing research project. College seniors were presented with basic requirements for a network project management software program and asked to produce a design in accordance with the ISO/IEC 9126 international standard for software product development. Ideally computer pro...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 11; pp. 15 - 17
Main Author: Glass, Robert L.
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2007
Subjects:
Computer software development
International Organization for Standardization
Software architecture
Software engineering
Computer programming
Computer programming management
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses a computing research project. College seniors were presented with basic requirements for a network project management software program and asked to produce a design in accordance with the ISO/IEC 9126 international standard for software product development. Ideally computer programmers would be able to create the application based on the students' designs. This turned out not to be the case. Various problems, including ambiguous and overlapping definitions, indicate the 9126 standard doesn't yet accomplish its aim.