SOFTWARE ARCHEOLOGY A CASE STUDY IN SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE AND DESIGN

Ideally, quality is designed into software, just as quality is designed into hardware However, when dealing with legacy systems, demonstrating that the software meets required quality standards may be difficult to achieve Evolving customer needs, expressed by new operational requirements, resulted in the need to develop a legacy software quality assurance program at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) This need led to the development of a revel se engineering approach referred to as software archaeology This paper documents the software archaeology approaches used at LANL to demonstrate the software quality in leg icy software systems A case study for the Robotic Integrated Packaging System (RIPS) software is included to describe our approach