Model-Based Development: Applications

Preface

Software development is an enormously complex intellectual activity. It is a relatively young discipline that is still rapidly evolving. It isn’t done very well because everyone is still trying to figure out how to do it.

Nonetheless, there has been substantial improvement over the years in the way software is developed. A number of design methodologies have evolved to facilitate various aspects of software design. One was the Structured Design methodology, which provided a very intuitive approach that matched up well with the hardware computational models of Turing and von Neumann.

The Problem

While Structured Design was clearly superior to the ad hoc approaches that preceded it, it had an Achilles heel: the software tended to be difficult ...