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Chapter 7
Empirical Studies of
Software Design Process
Jim Buckley and J.J. Collins
University of Limerick
7.1 MAKING THE CASE FOR DESIGN PROCESSES
A plethora of soware processes can be availed of to support the organization of a so-
ware development life cycle and the creation of the resultant soware artifacts. Processes
such as the rational unied process (Krutchen, 2003) explicitly state how to move from a
requirement analysis to design in a structured manner, given a set of architectural deci-
sions. is scoping of the solution space facilitates novices by making soware develop-
ment methodological and repeatable. ...