Cleanroom Software Engineering

The software industry is in transition from craft work to engineering practice, but development, operational and maintenance overheads are still unpredictable and expensive. Cleanroom Software engineering is the first practical development and certification to use statistical quality control to reduce software defects and costs. It has already distinguished itself as a complete software life cycle process with sound foundations in theory and demonstrated effectiveness in practice.

The Cleanroom method is one of the few fully articulated life cycle process models in software engineering today and involves:

*Incremental development under statistical process review.
*Formal methods for specification, design and verification.
*Statistical reliability certification.

A Reader in Classroom Software Engineering gathers together, for the first time, the most up-to-date material available to form an in-depth treatment of the complete Cleanroom process.

An overview of cleanroom software engineering

Part 1 Adopting cleanroom software engineering with a phased approach, P. Hauser et al.

Part 2 Cleanroom management: current practice in cleanroom management

Cleanroom software engineering, H. Mills et al

Cleanroom - an alternative software development approach, H. Mills

The cleanroom approach to six-igma software, J. Poore

Planning and certifying softsware system reliability, J. Poore et al

Cleanroom process model, R. Linger

Evolving practice in cleanroom management.

Part 3 Cleanroom development: current practice in cleanroom developments

Box-structured information systems, H. Mills

Stepwise refinement and verification in box-structured systems, H. Mills

Correctness verification - alternative to structure testing, M. Dyer and A. Kouchakjian

Reuse and cleanroom, E. Karlsson

Six-sigma software using cleanroom software engineering techniques, G. Head

Evolving practice in cleanroom development.

Part 4 Cleanroom certification.

Part 5 Certification case studies. Appendices: training and consultation tools

Jesse Poore is the author of Cleanroom Software Engineering: A Reader, published by Wiley. The software industry is in transition from craft work to engineering practice, but development, operational and maintenance overheads are still unpredictable and expensive. Cleanroom Software engineering is the first practical development and certification to use statistical quality control to reduce software defects and costs. It has already distinguished itself as a complete software life cycle process with sound foundations in theory and demonstrated effectiveness in practice.

The Cleanroom method is one of the few fully articulated life cycle process models in software engineering today and involves:

*Incremental development under statistical process review.
*Formal methods for specification, design and verification.
*Statistical reliability certification.

A Reader in Classroom Software Engineering gathers together, for the first time, the most up-to-date material available to form an in-depth treatment of the complete Cleanroom process.