Control Channel Toolkit: A Software Product Line Case Study

This report is a case study of the Control Channel Toolkit (CCT), a software asset base for a software product line of ground-based spacecraft command and control systems built under the direction of the United States National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Beginning with a characterization of the CCT context and a narration of the history of the effort, the report describes the management and software engineering practices, the software artifacts that were developed, the results that were achieved, and the lessons that were learned. It concludes with an accounting of the measurable benefits the government has already reaped in the initial use of CCT on a specific spacecraft command and control system. With the permission of Addison-Wesley, this report is extracted from Software Product Lines: Practices and Patterns, where it was published with the approval of the National Reconnaissance Office.

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Authors

Paul C. Clements

Sholom G. Cohen

Patrick Donohoe

Linda M. Northrop

This report is related to the following area(s) of work:

Case Studies
Software Product Lines

Technical Report
CMU/SEI-2001-TR-030
October 2001

Cite This Report

SEI:

Clements, Paul; Cohen, Sholom; Donohoe, Patrick; & Northrop, Linda. Control Channel Toolkit: A Software Product Line Case Study (CMU/SEI-2001-TR-030). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/01tr030.cfm

IEEE:

P. Clements, S. Cohen, P. Donohoe, and L. Northrop, "Control Channel Toolkit: A Software Product Line Case Study," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-2001-TR-030, 2001. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/01tr030.cfm

APA:

Clements, P., Cohen, S., Donohoe, P., & Northrop, L. (2001). Control Channel Toolkit: A Software Product Line Case Study (CMU/SEI-2001-TR-030). Retrieved May 18, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/01tr030.cfm

CHI:

Clements, Paul, Sholom Cohen, Patrick Donohoe, and Linda Northrop. Control Channel Toolkit: A Software Product Line Case Study (CMU/SEI-2001-TR-030). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/01tr030.cfm

MLA:

Clements, P., Cohen, S., Donohoe, P., & Northrop, L. 2001. Control Channel Toolkit: A Software Product Line Case Study (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2001-TR-030). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/01tr030.cfm

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