ABSTRACT
This paper provides a case history of Science Applications International Corporation’s (SAICs) experience in the development and application of the STEALTH (Hofmann 1981) explicit finite-difference codes within a quality assurance (QA) framework which tracked all developmental and application specific modifications made to the codes and standardized use of STEALTH for all analyses. SAIC utilized commercially available software to track and control modifications to STEALTH, and developed computer specific Job Control Language (JCL) files which standardized the execution of STEALTH by the staff scientists. As a result, SAIC can trace the complete 15 year developmental history of the STEALTH codes (over 20 standard and specialized versions) and re-create every major computer analysis run by SAIC staff. The experience gained by SAIC in the development and application of STEALTH within a QA framework is directly applicable to any project with stringent software QA requirements.
