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From: neil@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Neil Haddley)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Design Methodologies - Fact or Illusion.
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Date: 25 Apr 89 14:19:53 GMT
Reply-To: neil@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Neil Haddley)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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Design Methodologies - Fact or Illusion.
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I would greatly appreciate references to any papers, or books, which 
discuss the merits and demerits of Design Methodologies, and also
any good references to the Design Process (Support).

as a taste of what I am hoping for:


"So called design methodologies for software systems are no such thing 
 and are simply notations to express a pre-formulated software design ...
 it is profitable to turn our attention to building design support systems
 to assist with the design process itself."

"Science [and Software Development] is an essentially anarchistic enterprise:
 theoretical anarchistic is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage
 progress than its law-and-order alternatives."

"Software Development support tools do not always have to turn around
 formal notations being used to capture the intermediate results of the
 design process, which then provides input data for expert-system type
 advisors."

Many thanks in advance

Neil 

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