Softwear Reliability
Contemporary software development environments
Communications of the ACM
Contemporary software development environments
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
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An approach to software system integration used at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) is described and compared with established approaches to system integration. The approach presented here is evolutionary in nature: system functions are integrated and demonstrated to the customer in a series of successive system increments referred to as “Builds”. The order of integration is essentially top-down with vertical slicing, i.e., functional capabilities are demonstrated to the customer only when both high-level control functions and underlying low-level services have been integrated. This paper presents the first reported detailed case study of the application of the Build approach to the development of an actual system.