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- This file contains a description
- of the purposes of the Evaluation and
- Validation Task.
- (Ada IC point of contact: Gil Austin)
-
- EVALUATION AND VALIDATION (E&V) TASK
-
- The purpose of the Ada Programming Support Environment (APSE)
- Evaluation and Validation (E&V) task is to develop the techniques and
- tools which will provide a capability to perform assessment of APSEs
- and to determine conformance of APSEs to the Ada Joint Program Office
- (AJPO) sponsored Common APSE Interface Set (CAIS). As the E&V
- technology is developed, it will be made available to the community
- for use by the DoD components, industry and academia.
-
- E&V Documents and other E&V related publications are available
- on the DDN host Ada20, in the <EV-INFO> directory. A recent addition
- to this directory is the file COMPILER-CRITERIA which is a list of
- evaluation criteria and associated tests for use in assessing numerous
- attributes of Ada compilers. The EV-Info directory on the Ada20
- computer is available to authorized DDN users only. The directory is
- resident on the University of Southern California Information Sciences
- Institute, System F (USC-ISIF), whose alias is Ada20, and is
- accessible via the Defense Data Network (DDN).
-
- The DDN is a collection of approximately eighty
- different computer networks representing DoD facilities, research
- centers and academia throughout the free world. All of the
- networks are packet-switching systems with interconnections at
- various locations. Access to the DDN is controlled by the
- Department of Defense. To obtain access to the DDN it is first
- necessary to have a computer directory or access to a directory
- on one of the several thousand host computers comprising the
- system. The AJPO maintains two hosts at the ISI facility in
- California: the Ada20 and the Adavax. Access to these systems is
- controlled by the AJPO and is limited to those individuals
- providing a significant level of support to the Ada effort. Once
- access is obtained to one of these systems or to any other DDN
- host, the system administrator will provide directory and
- password information to the user. The following is the procedure
- for making a connection to the EV-Info directory from a DDN
- host.
-
-
- For Ada20 Users:
-
- 1. Log into your directory on Ada20.
-
- 2. Type "Type <EV-Info>Files.Hlp" for a listing of all help
- files in the EV-Info directory.
-
- 3. To View one of the files from this listing, type
- "Type <EV-Info>Filename.Ext" where 'Filename' is the name
- of a file in the listing.
-
- 4. To Copy one of the files from this listing to a local directory,
- type "Copy <EV-Info>Filename.Ext Fileb.Ext" where 'Filename' is
- the name of a file in the listing and Fileb.Ext is the new local
- file name.
-
-
- For users of other DDN computers supporting the FTP program:
-
- 1. From a directory on the other machine, invoke FTP.
-
- 2. Establish a connection to the Ada20.
-
- 3. When the 'Connection Opened' message is displayed; login by
- typing "Log Anonymous Username" where 'Username' is the user
- login name on the other machine.
-
- 4. When the 'User Logged in' message appears, type
- "Get <EV-Info>Files.Hlp Fileb.Ext" where Fileb.Ext is
- the local filename to write.
-
- 5. To read a desired file(?), step repeated substituting the
- new filename for 'Files'.
-
-
- For further information concerning the E&V Task, contact:
-
- Raymond Syzmanski
- AFWAL/AAAF
- Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433
- (513) 255-2446/6730
- Autovon 785-2446/6730
-