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This papers describes an effort to develop an integrated set of software development tools to support a disciplined and repeatable approach to software development. This effort, which is really part of a larger program currently underway at System Development Corporation to increase software reliability and control software production costs, is intended to replace what the authors term "ad hoc conglomerations of developmental tools" with standard engineering techniques.
Bratman et al. (Thu,) studied this question.