[WarpCast] OS/2 and Prolog help Computing Devices Canada win - 12/19/98




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Source: Gregory Bourassa (bourassa@magma.ca)
Moderator: Dirk Terrell (admin@os2ss.com)
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Computing Devices Canada (CDC), Nepean, Ontario, a 
General Dynamics Company, has been certified to Software 
Engineering Institute (SEI) capability and maturity model 
(CMM) level 3, by a team of independent auditors.  This is 
a  significant achievement for the company and provides 
assurance to its customers that software engineering is 
being carried out at CDC in an organised, well-defined, 
repeatable and well-understood fashion.

A major ingredient in the achievement of this success has 
been an Intranet-Web-based document tailoring utility 
(DTU),  written in Visual Prolog and running on an OS/2 
Domino Go  Web Server.  The utility provides CDC's software 
engineers with instant access to the company's process 
documents and  policies, and allows them to tailor and 
generate MIL-STD 498  style documents in a small fraction 
of the time previously required. It allows them to see 
examples of existing  document sections as well as generic 
document text for each section. Users can edit the content 
of the sections, plus "tailor" sections in or out, all 
while on-line.  Once satisfied, they can generate the 
complete document with keywords customised to their current 
project.

The CGI programs that drive the server side of the DTU are 
written in Visual Prolog for OS/2 which provides the 
development productivity and run-time performance the 
project demanded.

The Domino Go Web Server on OS/2 easily handles the 
processing load of the DTU, dispatching the CGI processes 
rapidly enough to allow rapid interactive expansion and 
collapsing of document sections by end-users.  This 
activity is a key indicator of response, since it can only 
be fully handled on the server side (the state of the 
expanded or collapsed view persists between user sessions).

For more details on the DTU and CDC's SEI level 3 CMM 
certification, contact:

Gregory Bourassa

bourassa@magma.ca








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