Coding for the Code

ABSTRACT

Despite the considerable effort invested by industry and academia in modeling standards such as UML (Unified Modeling Language), software modeling has long played a subordinate role in commercial software development. Although modeling is generally perceived as state of the art and thus as something that ought to be done, its appreciation seems to pale along with the progression from the early, more conceptual phases of a software project to those where the actual handcrafting is done. As a matter of fact, while models have been found useful for documentation purposes and as rough sketches of implementations, their ultimate value has been severely limited by their ambiguity and tendency to get out of sync with the final code.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
        D.2.11 Software Architectures
      D.2.3 Coding Tools and Techniques
      D.2.6 Programming Environments

General Terms:
Documentation