Chapter 7Pragmatics

Software development today is a multibillion-dollar, competitive, worldwide business, stretching from North America through Western and Eastern Europe and into Asia and the Pacific Rim. In spite of the tools available to support the major functions in object-oriented development—requirements management, configuration management, design, code, and test—there are still too many failures. Schedules are missed. Costs are overrun. Functionality is not provided. Tens to hundreds of millions of dollars are lost on single development efforts. An unfortunate example is the FBI's Virtual Case File system, which was intended to be an important tool in fighting terrorism. After more than three years in development, in April 2005 "the ...

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