home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usc!hacgate!mobej
- From: mobej@thaad-1g%hac2arpa.hac.com (Mario Obejas)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Rough Draft: eval. of IDE strand_RT: Reviewers?
- Message-ID: <22870@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 16:21:00 GMT
- Sender: news@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM
- Lines: 41
- X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
-
- I have started doing an evaluation of IDE's Software through Pictures (StP).
- *The objective is to focus only on its support of Hatley-Pirbhai methodology*
-
- So before I go too far down this path, I wonder about the level of usefulness of
- this document to the interested reader. My approach is to go through the
- Hatley-Pirbhai book, quote rules/notation that the TOOL does/does not support,
- and also give any additional clarifying comments along the way. Sorry folks, I
- can't give an example with quotes "without the prior written consent of the
- publisher" (I hope to get) as the copyright notice states, so I'll have to avoid
- a direct quote here.
-
- The framework of my approach is something like the following excerpt.
-
- The Hatley-Pirbhai rules for data stores are ALMOST all supported in StP:
- a. Unlabeled flows to/from a store carry the whole data group of the store
- b. Flows carrying subgroups of stored data are labeled with subgroup names.
- c. Write only stores don't serve a useful purpose, so they are not used.
- StP will report an error in this case.
- The Hatley-Pirbhai rule for data stores NOT supported in StP:
- a. Data stores can only be read-only. Flows into a data store occur outside
- the system being modeled. StP has no way of knowing this. Hence StP reports
- the error, and you must hand verify that this situation is correct.
- b. A unique Data store appears on one DFD only. StP does not enforce this rule.
- However, a data store that appears on more than one DFD is the same object in
- the Data Dictionary.
-
- As I go along, I am adding to a summary which I will place at the very front.
- For now, I have chosen to keep this document in electronic straight-ahead ASCII
- format so that ANYBODY can grab it and read it no matter what the host platform.
-
- Comments, criticisms, warnings? Would you like to be a reviewer in the end? No
- promises but I may as well get a list of interested parties now. Thanks for your
- time.
-
-
- --
- Mario Obejas mobej@thaad-1g.hac.com (714) 732 2954
- mobej@thaad-1g@hac2arpa.hac.com if the above doesn't work
- Hughes Aircraft, 676/Z341, P.O. Box 3310, Fullerton, CA 92634
- ex-THAAD sysadmin: will work for food or Internet address
- Disclaimer: my opinions are mine, not necessarily my employer's.
-