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Software Design and Development

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Concise Guide to Software Engineering

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This chapter discusses design and development, and software design is the blueprint of the solution to be developed. It is concerned with the high-level architecture of the system, as well as the detailed design that describes the algorithms and functionality of the individual programs. The detailed design is then implemented in a programming language such as C++ or Java. We discuss software development topics such as software reuse, customized-off-the-shelf software (COTS), and open-source software development.

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    I recall Parnas making a joke many years ago that we have developed all this reusable software that nobody reuses.

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    The inventors of Simula-67 were Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard.

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    Dahl and Nygaard were working on ship simulations and were attempting to address the huge number of combinations of different attributes from different types of ships. Their insight was to group the different types of ships into different classes of objects, with each class of objects being responsible for defining its own data and behaviour.

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  1. University of Central Asia, Naryn, Kyrgyzstan

    Gerard O’Regan

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O’Regan, G. (2022). Software Design and Development. In: Concise Guide to Software Engineering. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07816-3_6

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