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Software Design

• Book recommendations by M. Petre
  • Michael A Jackson, Problem Frames
  • George Fairbanks, Just Enough Software Architecture
  • Michael Keeling, Design It!
• Problem Frames
  • M A Jackson: All papers
  • Paper
    • Software development is a problem to be solved
      • Classified as problems to find by Polya
      • Problem world -- area the world is concerned with
      • Requirement -- condition on the problem world
      • Machine -- computer executing software
  • Presentation
    • R Requirements/what the customer wants to be true
    • D Domain properties/what we know to be true
    • S Specification/how the machine should behave
    • G General solution argument
    • Each frame has a characteristic concern
    • Decompose a problem into simpler, individual subproblems

— Kunal