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Evaluating configuration management tools for high assurance software development projects

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dc.contributor Dinolt, George
dc.contributor Thompson, Michael
dc.contributor Computer Science
dc.creator Ziegenhagen, Lynzi
dc.date 2012-03-14T17:29:48Z
dc.date 2012-03-14T17:29:48Z
dc.date 2003-06
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-19T07:45:07Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-19T07:45:07Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10945/881
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/100178
dc.description This thesis establishes a framework for evaluating automated configuration management tools for use in high assurance software development projects and uses the framework to evaluate eight tools. The evaluation framework identifies a dozen feature areas that affect a high assurance project team's ability to achieve its configuration management goals and evaluates the different methods that existing tools use to implement each feature area. Each implementation method is assigned a risk rating that approximates the relative risk that the method adds to the overall configuration management process. The tools with the lowest total ratings minimize risk to high assurance projects. The results of the evaluation show that although certain tools are less risky to use than other tools for high assurance projects, no tool minimizes risk in all feature areas. Furthermore, none of the existing tools are designed to leverage high assurance environments-i.e. none run on operating systems that have themselves been evaluated as meeting high assurance requirements. Thus, high assurance development projects that want to leverage the benefits of configuration management tools and achieve a sufficiently strong configuration management solution must employ existing tools in a protected environment that specifically addresses the risks created by the tools' implementation methods.
dc.description http://archive.org/details/evaluatingconfig10945881
dc.description Civilian, United States Department of Defense
dc.description Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
dc.format xvi, 89 p. : ill. ;
dc.format application/pdf
dc.publisher Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
dc.rights This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
dc.subject Computer software
dc.subject Development
dc.title Evaluating configuration management tools for high assurance software development projects
dc.type Thesis


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