Software Specification and Design: An Engineering Approach

by Ph.D., John C. Munson

Overview

The rigors of engineering must soon be applied to the software development process, or the complexities of new systems will initiate the collapse of companies that attempt to produce them. Software Specification and Design: An Engineering Approach offers a foundation for rigorously engineered software. It provides a clear vision of what occurs at e

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135492465
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	09/26/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Ph.D. Munson

Table of Contents

An Overview of the Software Development Process. Requirements Analysis. Operational Specification. Functional Specification: High Level Design. Mapping Operations to Functionalities. Module specification: Low-level design. Mapping the operations to modules. Choosing the appropriate language metaphor. Measuring software design. System architectural trade-offs. The structure of an executing program. Maintaining the specifications. The software development infrastructure. Specification-driven verification and validation. Direct benefits of specification traceability.