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The Future of Software Development
to the point where the human can assert its correctness or otherwise (that
will be the primary function of these tools); but for the foreseeable future,
the tools will not be able to assert that something is correct knowledge
without the human intervention.
On the support side, there will be close linkage between “standards”
models and the product and process models, with the application models
inheriting their characteristics from the standards models. For manage-
ment, the linkage will be between the system’s models (the classical mod-
els containing the knowledge of the product under development) and the
resource and planning models. For the environment, such as network man-
agement, the linkage will be between ...