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From: tensu@vehka.uta.fi (Tero Ahtee)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,sfnet.atk
Subject: Evolution of SA and SD (updated)
Keywords: SA SD structured techniques evolution analysis design
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Date: 27 Jun 90 07:37:40 GMT
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Hi you all in the nets !

Here is an updated version of "Evaluation of SA and SD".
Any corrections are welcome...

The following persons have sent comments to me, and I wish
to thank them for that ;
  CFoster@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk
  rdoyle@axion.bt.co.uk
  tyson@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk
  rad@aragorn.cm.deakin.OZ.AU
  nvuxl!richard@bellcore.bellcore.com

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          SP
           |
  HIPO     |
   |       |
   |       |   SADT
   |       |    |
   |       | |--|      JSP/JSD
   |
| |          |
   |-----| | | |--------|
         | | | |
         SD
         (1974-78)
         <Yourdon>
          | ||| | |------------------|
|---------| ||| | |                 SSA
|           ||| | |--|              (1977-79)
| |---------||| |    |              <Gane,Sarson>
| |          || |  SASS              |  |  |  |
| |  |-------|| |  (1978-79)         |  |  |  |------------|
| |  |        | |  <DeMarco>   |-----|  |  |               |
| |  |  |-----| |  ||| |||||   |        |  |----|         STRADIS
| |  |  |       |  ||| |||||---O-------||       |         (1979)
| |  |  |       |  ||| ||||    |       ||       |
| |  |  |  |----O--OOO-OOOO----|       ||       |
| |  |  |  |    |  ||| ||||            IE       |
| |  |  |  | |--|  ||| ||||--------|   (1981)   |
| |  |  |  | |     ||| |||         |            |
| |  |  |  | ||----||| |||         |-----------||
| |  |  | SA/SD     || |||                     ||
| |  |  | (1982-84) || |||----|                ||
| |  |  | <Yourdon> || ||     |                ||
| |  |  |     ||    || ||     |                LSDM
| |  |  |     ||    || ||     |                (1983)
| |  |  |-----OO--| || ||     |                  |
| |  |        ||  | || ||     |                  |
| | DARTS     ||  | || ||   Boeing-Hatley        |
| | (1984) RT |||-O-|| ||   (1984) RT            |
| |           ||| |  | ||                        |
| |  |--------||| |  | ||                        |
| |  |         || |  | ||------|                 |
| |  | |-------OO-O--| |       |                 |
| |  | |       || |    |       |                 |
| |  | |       || Ward-Mellor  |                 |
| |  | |       || (1985-86) RT |                 |
| |  | |       ||   |          |                 |
| |  | |       ||   |          |                SSADM
| |  | |       ||   |          |                (1986)
| |  | | |-----OO---|          |
| |  | | |     ||        Hatley-Pirbhai
| |  | | |     ||        (1987) RT
| |  | | |     ||
| YSM          ||
| (1987-89)    ||
| <Yourdon>    ||
|              ||
OOSD           ||
(1989)         ||
              OOA
              (1990)
              <Coad,Yourdon>


(As you understand, O means crossing lines in that non-graphical chart)
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Some used expressions :

SP = Structured Programming
HIPO = Hierarchical Input Process Output
SADT = Structured Analysis and Design Technique
JSP/JSD = Jackson's Structured Programming/Jackson System Development
SD = Structured Design
SSA = Structured Systems Analysis
SASS = Structured Analysis and Systems Specification
STRADIS = Structured Analysis, Design and Implementation of Information Systems
IE = Information Engineering
SA/SD = Structured Analysis/Structured Design
LSDM = LBMS System Development Method
DARTS = Design Approach for Real-Time Systems
SSADM = Structures Systems Analysis and Design Method
YSM = Yourdon Structured Method
OOSD = Object Oriented Structured Design
OOA = Object Oriented Analysis

(chart updated 25.06.1990)
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