History of
Iterative and Incremental Development
(IID)
n1971 – IBM
Federal Systems Division
–Mills, Harlan. Top-down programming in Large Systems. In
Debugging Techniques in Large Systems. Prentice Hall,
1971
n1972 – TRW uses IID on
$100M Army Site Defense software
n1975 – First
original paper devoted to IID
–Gasili, Vic and Turner, Albert. Iterative Enhancement: A
Practical Technique for Software Development.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
Dec 1975.
n1977-1980 – IBM FSD builds NASA Space Shuttle software in 17 iterations over 31 months, averaging 8 weeks per
iteration
–Madden and Rone. Design, Development, Integration: Space
Shuttle Flight Software. Communications of
the ACM, Sept 1984.
Larman,
Craig and Basili, Vic. A History of Iterative and Incremental Development. IEEE Computer, June 2003 (in press)