Software Engineering

(Functional Area 5)

Description:

Service to provide full life cycle of a software system development. Process definition; requirements management (project planning, quality assurance, project tracking and oversight, organizational process focus); software metrics; software process assessments; software capability evaluations; software project management; software certification; software validation and verification; open systems; software architecture; software reengineering; software reuse; component based software; software security; supervising software configuration management; and CASE tools.

Examples of Potential Services:

  • Provide ongoing system, applications maintenance and troubleshooting;
  • Analyze and document complex system requirements;
  • Design software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain analyses and manage their implementation;
  • Interpret software requirements, design specifications to code, manage software development and support (using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, and other accepted design techniques and tools), integrate and test software components;
  • Estimate software development costs and schedules;
  • Review existing programs and assist in making refinements, performance improvements, and improving current techniques; and
  • Estimate and track software quality attributes.

The examples of services listed in this section are not all inclusive of the services available under the Master Contract.