Software Development as a Modeling Process
6.1 INTRODUCTION
This chapter describes application development from a software-engineering view. We discuss how software development can be seen as a modeling process in the sense of the Unified Process. We distinguish the domain model from the application system model, and we discuss the actual state of the application domain and the design of the future system.
The message of this chapter is that you should have an explicit model of the application domain in its actual state. This model helps to understand the relevant tasks and the concepts behind them. In our application-oriented approach, understanding the tasks and concepts naturally leads to the design of the future system.
6.2 A SIMPLIFIED ...
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