The NASA Software Engineering Laboratory Database
The Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL), an organization sponsored by the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration/
Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA/GSFC), was created in 1976 to continuously improve both GSFC software products and processes.
The Software Engineering Laboratory Database(SELD) was established to support the research in measurement and evaluation of the software development process. Under its sponsorship, numerous experiments have been designed and executed to study the effects in flight dynamics applications.
One of the major functions of the SEL is the collection of detailed software engineering data, describing all facets of the development process, and the archival of this data for future use. To this end, the SEL has created and maintained an online database for the storage and retrieval of software engineering data.
Continuous improvement is achieved through a three step process:
- Understand the software process in the environment at GSFC
- Assess the effect of new technologies, tools, and techniques on the
process
- Identify, package, and apply successful development practices
The SEL supports this process with an extensive data collection
program on software. The SEL is jointly operated by:
Some of the NASA/SEL data is available here for Interactive analysis. Another Free service from the DACS.
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Project Statistics Scatterplots.
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Project Statistics Histograms.
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Component Statistics Scatterplots
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Component Statistics Histograms
The activities, findings, and recommendations of the
SEL are recorded in the Software Engineering Laboratory Series, a continuing series of reports. The reports are available from:
Software Engineering Branch
Code 552
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland 20771
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