Making reuse pay: the SIDPERS-3 RAPID Center

The US Army Information Systems Engineering Command (ISEC), which develops and maintains Standard Army Multicommand Information Systems (STAMIS), asked the author's company to examine the feasibility of the RAPID software library concept, to assess the potential for software reuse in traditional MIS applications. (RAPID is an acronym for Reusable Ada Packages for Information system Development.) The author summarizes the findings of this work, and discusses the RAPID Center, which is currently being developed to support ISEC's software reuse program and to apply the results from the RAPID investigation. The SIDPERS-3, the third and latest version of the US Army's Standard Installation/Division Personnel System, serves as a testbed for the RAPID Center and related issues of software reusability.<
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