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Software Designers in Action
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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 13
The Blind Men and the
Elephant, or the Race
of the Hobbyhorses
Mark D. Gross
Carnegie Mellon University
13.1 INTRODUCTION
Modeled on the Del Protocol Workshop of 1994, the Studying Professional Soware
Design (SPSD) Workshop at Irvine asked us each to examine the SPSD design protocols
using a specic method of analysis or perspective. e chapters in this book that result
from the workshop remind me of the tale of the blind men and the elephant—one feels the
leg and says an elephant is like a pillar; another feels the trunk and says an elephant is like
a rope, and so on. Some authors showcase the felicities ...
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ISBN: 9781466501096