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The Laws of Software Process
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The Laws of Software Process

by Phillip G. Armour
September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
8h 36m
English
Auerbach Publications
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THE LAWS OF SOFTWARE PROCESS
systems that are dealing with transactions or packets will certainly pro-
cess different types of input records. As we can see, there is a continuum
of detail getting progressively more specific to the system being built as we
move down the detail scale. At the bottom, explicitly telling someone to get
the structure and content of a remote Administrator log-in signal while the
system is down is much more useful, but the definition of the process pre-
supposes quite a bit:
• That this system does accept input
• That at least one type of input can be referred to by the label “log-
in signals”
• That an entity or user known by the label “Administrator” exists in
the system or its environment
• That the transform process of “log-in” ...
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ISBN: 9780203505649