Micro-Architecture of Software Components and The Need For Good Mental Models of Software Subsystems

Joe Hollingsworth---Indiana University
Bruce Weide---The Ohio State University
Stephen Edwards---The Ohio State University
Larry Latour---University of Maine

• Introduction
• Working Group Overview
• Mental Models - The Human Perspective
• Micro-Architectures - The Software Engineer's Perspective
  • Definitions of ``Architecture''
  • An Event Driven Execution Model
• Generalizing Concepts: Sorts and Sorting Machines
  • Composability, Local Certifiability, and Performance
• Models of Implementations: Heapsorting
  • A Spiral Model of a Heap
  • Mental Models and Group Interaction
  • Assumptions and Implications of the Heapsort Example
  • Teaching - A Digression?
• Connections: Mental Models and Micro-Architectures
• OO Envoys and a Comparison of Development Paradigms
  • The Visual Basic Environment
  • The OO Community
  • Comparison
• A (Brief!) Catalog of Techniques
  • Techniques for Generalizing Components
  • Techniques for Deriving Good Mental Models
• Summary and Conclusions
• References
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