Translating Atlas 416 to Fortran77 using CMMI® processes

Due to the increasing costs in software engineering and support of ATE, several processes have emerged to enable software improvement and incorporate an error or defect predicting component into software development. Chief among them is the DOD sponsored CMMI® (capability maturity model integration). ATE development and support is an excellent arena to test new process systems and models because of its diversity and the increasing trend of use ATE support engineers as integrators. During 2004 and 2005 WRALC/MASTF incorporated CMMI® into an ATLAS to FORTRAN77 rehost project and had great success. This paper will demonstrate that by using CMMI® processes, a customer will receive a superior, repeatable and more reliable software product, as well as superior system support for the future. In addition, training of new personnel are repeatable, thus resulting in more competent, and long-term organization memory.