The smart stub as a software management tool

Authors:
Donald J. Reifer
Affiliations:
The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California
Venue:
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Year:
1976

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Abstract

This note explains how the smart stub concept (also called a performance stub) can be used by management to improve its visibility and control during the top-down development of large, complex structured programming projects. Presently, program stubs are dummy segments of code that serve as place holders for lower level modules not yet completed as part of the present build. Smart stubs augment these dummies with segments of code that model the budgeted storage and timing resources that will be consumed by the to-be-completed module. How smart stubs can be integrated into the top-down, structured programming methodology to provide early visibility is discussed.