The Software Factory: A Fourth Generation Software Engineering Environment

Here is a professional text/reference that presents the concept and implementation of the "Software Factory", an integrated software engineering environment for the development and support of software. This concept of software engineering as a complete environment, originally suggested by the Japanese, holds high promise but has never been realized. This book discusses the implementation of the software factory focused on large scale DoD software environments. Among the topics covered are the software engineering process, the database, data control, planning, management and control.