Business Case: Quality Factors
(HA/RT: high-assurance/real-time capability)


Warfighting Software

HA/RT: Ada advantage (++)
  • Ada technically superior
  • Attributes are success-critical

Ease of change: Ada advantage (+)

  • Ada somewhat superior
  • More so for high assurance changes

Commercially Dominated Software

HA/RT: Ada advantage (+)
  • Ada superiority diluted by COTS
  • Attributes less success-critical
Ease of change: Ada disadvantage (-)
  • Ada custom advantages outweighed by non-Ada COTS advantages


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