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Lessons from industrial design for software engineering through constraints identification, solution space optimisation and reuse

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Anthony T. LawrieAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '02: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing

Pages 732 - 738

https://doi.org/10.1145/508791.508933

Published: 11 March 2002 Publication History

Abstract

Design is a complex activity that can be analysed from a wide variety of perspectives. This paper attempts to look at the individual problem solving process, taking into account psychological arguments. We characterise some of the phases involved in the design process, namely the constraints identification, the optimisation of solution space and the reuse process. We highlight a three-dimensional framework of how the constraints identification impacts on the solution space which, in turn, determines the range of the components that will be eligible for reuse. We discuss this argument through examples from both inside and outside the software engineering field.

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DOI:10.1145/508791

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Grumbach JThomas L(2022)Systems integration implications of component reuseSystems Engineering10.1002/sys.2163625:6(561-573)Online publication date: 9-Aug-2022
https://doi.org/10.1002/sys.21636
Berg MTang AFarenhorst R(2009)A Constraint-Oriented Approach to Software Architecture DesignProceedings of the 2009 Ninth International Conference on Quality Software10.1109/QSIC.2009.59(396-405)Online publication date: 24-Aug-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/QSIC.2009.59

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