Formal design Reviews Associated with each of documentation phases Evaluate with respect to Customer requirements Prescribed standards and practices Contractual requirements

Fairly primitive and predictive power limited Function Points Count number of inputs and output, user interactions, external interfaces files used Assess each for complexity and multiply by a weighting factor Used to predict size or cost and to assess project productivity

Difficult Person Hostile-aggressie Bullies, cverwhelms, and intimidates cthers nd up to the hostile ade frot atoers-can t accept feedback on t rush into the worst thing that coul happen?)

opyright Nancy Leveson, Sept. 1999 Stage 1: Forming Team members begin to discover what behaviors are acceptable Usually highly unstructured environment Attempt to identify tasks, how to accomplish them Decisions on what information is needed Hesitant participation

Can programming language influence correctness? anguages affect the way we think about problems The tools we use have a profound(and devious) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore on our thinking abilities?

Reuse (Assume have source code, not a commercial product) Ariane 5. Therac-25. British AtC Expectation Significantly lower development costs and time. Amortize costs among all users or uses Assumptions

State Machine specifications Define behavior using states and transitions between states

Outline: Software Design Goals History of software design ideas Design principles Design methods Life belt or leg iron?(Budgen)

design: added inheritance, multiple inheritance, and polymorphism to ADT In process added complexity and increased some types of connectivity Lots of claimed advantages -- so far empirical evaluation is not supporting them well

Requirements specification: A structured document that sets out the services the system is expected to provide Should be precise so that it can act as a contract between the system procurer and software developer and thus needs to be understandable by procurers and developers