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Software Performance Engineering (SPE) provides an approach to constructing systems to meet performance objectives. This paper illustrates the application of SPE to an example with some real-time properties and demonstrates how to compare performance characteristics of design alternatives. We show how SPE can be integrated with design methods and demonstrate that performance requirements can be achieved without sacrificing other desirable design qualities such as understandability, maintainability, and reusability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Creating and enhancing a software engineering work force requires several different types of continuing education for software professionals, including: task-oriented education, enhancement-oriented education and selection-oriented education. In this paper, we focus on the important, but often neglected, category of selection-oriented education. We begin with a discussion of technology selection, indicating what it involves, how it contributes to improving the state of practice, and why it is key to technology improvement in general. This is followed by a discussion of some criteria for selection-oriented education programs. We then describe the selection-oriented education activities at the Rocky Mountain Institute of Software Engineering and relate some problems encountered in establishing these activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Compares the specifications in the Software Cost Reduction (SCR) method and the Vienna Definition Method (VDM) for a safety-critical system. Developers of the basic techniques of SCR; Information on the notations used in SCR and VDM; First application of the VDM.