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Structural Modeling: An Application Framework and Development Process for Flight Simulators

Technical Report
This paper presents the structural modeling approach, an application framework and development process for the construction of flight simulators.
Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

CMU/SEI Report Number
CMU/SEI-93-TR-014

Abstract

In this paper, we present the structural modeling approach, an application framework and development process for the construction of flight simulators. Structural modeling was developed to address functional, nonfunctional, and process requirements for flight simulators. It has been successfully used in the development of large scale (one million lines of ADA code) flight simulators for the United States Air Force. A structural model promotes a simple and coherent software architecture with a small number of specialized structural elements obeying a few systemwide coordination strategies. It is this simplicity coherence of the software architecture that enables analysis to demonstrate the quality of the system.

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Abowd, G., Bass, L., Howard, L., & Northrop, L. (1993, August 1). Structural Modeling: An Application Framework and Development Process for Flight Simulators. (Technical Report CMU/SEI-93-TR-014). Retrieved April 19, 2024, from https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/structural-modeling-an-application-framework-and-development-process-for-flight-simulators/.

@techreport{abowd_1993,
author={Abowd, Gregory and Bass, Len and Howard, Larry and Northrop, Linda},
title={Structural Modeling: An Application Framework and Development Process for Flight Simulators},
month={Aug},
year={1993},
number={CMU/SEI-93-TR-014},
howpublished={Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library},
url={https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/structural-modeling-an-application-framework-and-development-process-for-flight-simulators/},
note={Accessed: 2024-Apr-19}
}

Abowd, Gregory, Len Bass, Larry Howard, and Linda Northrop. "Structural Modeling: An Application Framework and Development Process for Flight Simulators." (CMU/SEI-93-TR-014). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library. Software Engineering Institute, August 1, 1993. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/structural-modeling-an-application-framework-and-development-process-for-flight-simulators/.

G. Abowd, L. Bass, L. Howard, and L. Northrop, "Structural Modeling: An Application Framework and Development Process for Flight Simulators," Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library. Software Engineering Institute, Technical Report CMU/SEI-93-TR-014, 1-Aug-1993 [Online]. Available: https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/structural-modeling-an-application-framework-and-development-process-for-flight-simulators/. [Accessed: 19-Apr-2024].

Abowd, Gregory, Len Bass, Larry Howard, and Linda Northrop. "Structural Modeling: An Application Framework and Development Process for Flight Simulators." (Technical Report CMU/SEI-93-TR-014). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library, Software Engineering Institute, 1 Aug. 1993. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/structural-modeling-an-application-framework-and-development-process-for-flight-simulators/. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

Abowd, Gregory; Bass, Len; Howard, Larry; & Northrop, Linda. Structural Modeling: An Application Framework and Development Process for Flight Simulators. CMU/SEI-93-TR-014. Software Engineering Institute. 1993. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/structural-modeling-an-application-framework-and-development-process-for-flight-simulators/