The SDLC at NASA

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The SDLC at NASA

• Brief Case Study
• FAG 5
• Qin
  Wang
• Lin He
• 
  Liang Zhao

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Agenda

• Synopsis
• Two Questions
• Impact on petPRO
• Impact on our FAG

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Summary

• NASA uses SDLC to control its systems
• In order to protect the astronauts
• High-quality software to meet error-free standard

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Problems

• Any system failures have catastrophic results
• How to meet error-free standard

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Solution

• High quality software
• Eight-step approach, more detailed

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Question 1

• What are the advantages and disadvantages of
  formal SDLC?

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• Advantages
• - low installation and maintain cost
• - technologies are more consummate
• - less bugs
• - easy to control

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• Disadvantages
• - can not fit the specific requests
• - similar with the other companies
• - less competition

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Question 2

• Many firms officially adhere to a formal SDLC,
  but in actual fact follow a much more ad hoc
  process. Why do you think that this is the case?

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• Sometimes formal SDLC is not optimal
• Emphasize firms own characteristics
• Make different of their competitors

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Impact on petPRO

• What SDLC can do for us?
• - own strong power to control the system
• - help top manager to choose strategies

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Impact on QC/T

• - improve efficiency
• - easy to analysis database and files
• - high-quality software, get accurate results
• - low probability to make mistake

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Any questions?

• Thank you !