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From: maka@hpcilzb.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Naive Question
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Date: 14 Jan 88 19:31:19 GMT
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Posted: Thu Jan 14 14:31:19 1988


>>QUESTION:  Does anyone know of an approach which *does* deal with each part
>>separately?  I am hoping for material which is readily available (articles
>>or books which are well known) rather than commercial products or obscure
>>titles.

The software development lifecycle model that has traditionally (although
admittedly this "tradition" is relatively young) been the most
accepted is the waterafall model.  This model identifies 4 distinct phases:
requirements specification, design, implementation, and maintenance.  There
are various other models with their own adherents as well.  These include
rapid prototyping, the "operational approach" that came out of Bell labs, etc.

Anyway, there is really quite a bit of literature in this area, if you know
where to look; the best single place is the IEEE Transactions on Software
Engineering.  There is a Handbook of Software Engineering, edited by Vick and
Ramamoorthy and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold - but the articles
included there comprise a rather disparate collection and the book is *very*
expensive.  

Specifically, for a good overview of the current state and approaches to the
software development lifecycle, I recommend "Software Engineering: Problems
and Perspectives" by Ramamoorthy et al, IEEE Computer magazine, October 1984.
This article also has a good bibliography that might be useful to you.

marta kosarchyn
mkosarchyn@dtc.hp.com
(408) 553-2993