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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 16 , Issue 2 (February 1973) table of contents

Pages: 110 - 116

Year of Publication: 1973

ISSN:0001-0782

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Robert M. Graham	Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley
Gerald J. Clancy, Jr.	Honeywell Information Systems, Inc., Waltham, MA
David B. DeVaney	Honeywell Information Systems, Inc., Waltham, MA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

A critical failure of current software system design and implementation methodology is that the performance of a proposed design is not evaluated before it is actually implemented. In this paper the reasons for this failure are explored, and a new methodology which overcomes many of the difficulties is proposed. A system which integrates performance evaluation with design and implementation is described. This system is based on a simple, high level language which is used to describe the evolving system at all stages of its development. The source language description is used as direct input to performance analysis and simulation routines. Using the performance information obtained from these routines as feedback, the problems which adversely affect performance are detected early enough so that they can be corrected without costly major reimplementation of the proposed system.

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	David M. Sherr, A proposed non-procedural programming language for structured system development, Proceedings of the 1974 annual ACM conference, January 01-01, 1974

INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
compilers, debugging, language processing, modeling, oeprating system development, program maintenance, simulation, software evaluation, supervisory systems, system integration, system programming

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Robert M. Graham: colleagues

Gerald J. Clancy, Jr.: colleagues

David B. DeVaney: colleagues

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