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Software Designers in Action
book

Software Designers in Action

by Marian Petre, Andre Van Der Hoek
September 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
452 pages
17h 21m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chapter 2
Representing Structure in
a Software System Design
*
Michael Jackson
The Open University
2.1 INTRODUCTION
Introducing a digital computer into a system brings an unprecedented level of behavioral
complexity. Anyone who has ever written and tested a small program knows that so-
ware, even when apparently simple, can exhibit complex and surprising behaviors. To
deal eectively with this complexity, the program text must be structured to allow the
programmer to understand clearly how the program will behave in execution (Dijkstra
1968). at is, the program’s behavior structure must be clearly represented by ...
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ISBN: 9781466501096