Istel Plc, the leveraged buyout from Rover Group based in Redditch, Worcestershire has UKP189,645 of UK government money to finance one of the first demonstrator projects of software engineering: the project will use UK National Computing Centre-defined metrics to prove the effectiveness or not of formal design methods (Jackson Structured Design), prototyping and developing workstation-based Integrated Programming Support Environments or IPSEs and will spread over two years the design of a manufacturing purchasing system for Austen Rover; much of the work will rest on ideas from Barry Boehm’s pioneering work at TRW Inc in the US and results will be available to the public.
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