Software Design Guidance

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Software Design Guidance

• A Study of its Effectiveness Extensibility

Vandana Bajaj 06 Advisor Prof. Aaron Cass 5/5/06
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Designing Software

• Diagram
• Big pieces
• Information
• Relationships
• Possibly get stuck
• Possibly mess up

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Bottom Line

• ITS HARD!

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Theres help in sight.

• Design patterns
• Design guidance

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Tool Basics

• Draw diagram
• Told what to do next
• Get warnings
• Currently works for one pattern

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New Stuff Abstract Factory

• Goal another pattern!
• How good is it?
• How does it compare?

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Necessary Additions

• Warnings (rules)
• Tell you what to do next (process)

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Rules

• Must hold true
• Violation shows somethings wrong
• 5 of them for AF
• Fed to Checker

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Process

• Order of tasks
• Defined through Visual-JIL
• Check rules at certain points

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Evaluation

• Design task for students
• How good are their designs?
• How helpful is it to them?
• Answer original questions

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