17.233 waterfall diagram

From: Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 08 2003 - 01:38:38 EDT

  • Next message: Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty

                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 233.
           Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
                            www.princeton.edu/humanist/
                         Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu

       [1] From: "Jochen L. Leidner" <jochen.leidner@ed.ac.uk> (30)
             Subject: Re: 17.230 waterfall diagram?

       [2] From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois (9)
                     Lachance)
             Subject: Re: 17.230 waterfall diagram?

    --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------
             Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 06:36:01 +0100
             From: "Jochen L. Leidner" <jochen.leidner@ed.ac.uk>
             Subject: Re: 17.230 waterfall diagram?

    Dear Willard,

    The straightforward Waterfall Model process for system development was
    devised by W. W. Royce in 1970 [1]. There are more realistic/less
    simplistic models for system development, such as the Spiral Model by
    Boehm [2]; a high-level overview can be obtained from [3].
          [There are many other models, such as the German 'V Model' or, more
    recently, eXtreme Programming (XP), but they are perhaps not worth
    mentioning in a 'Computing for the Humanities' curriculum.]

              Regards,
                      Jochen

    [1] Royce, W. W. (1970). Managing the Development of Large
          Software Systems: Concepts and Techniques. Proceedings
          of IEEE WESCON, p. 1-9.

    [2] Boehm, B. W. (1988). A spiral Model of Software
          Development and Enhancement. Reading, MA:
          Addison-Wesley.

    [3] Sommerville, Ian (2000). Software Engineering (6th ed.;
          Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley/Pearson Education.

    On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty)
    wrote:
    [...]
    > http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/q/waterfall-image.jpg. It is a so-called
    > "waterfall diagram" of the process of designing a computing system. The
    > diagram shows the derivation of a machine as operational model of a
    > system from a real-world (physical) system
    [...]

    --
    Jochen L Leidner                                           <leidner@acm.org>
    ICCS                                               <Jochen.Leidner@ed.ac.uk>
    University of Edinburgh    <http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/~s0239229/>
    

    --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 06:36:31 +0100 From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 17.230 waterfall diagram?

    Willard,

    And what happens when the layered cake is replaced in your introduction by a cascading waterfall? Notwithstanding your not yet having the benefit of consultations with students, I would be curious about your speculations.

    Francois

    -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Mon Sep 08 2003 - 06:15:21 EDT