Describing software design in Ada

ABSTRACT

Ada is a tool suitable for the efficient and reliable development of solutions to a large problem domain. To combat the FORTRAN mind set and exploit the full power of the language, top down functional methodo logies are insufficient, and thus an object-oriented methodology is required. This paper provides some observations on such a methodology with subsequent representation of software design in the Ada Programming Support Environment (APSE).

REFERENCES

• 1: Grady Booch , Doug Bryan, Software engineering with Ada (3rd ed.), Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Co., Inc., Redwood City, CA, 1993
• 2: D. L. Parnas, On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules, Communications of the ACM, v.15 n.12, p.1053-1058, Dec. 1972 [doi>10.1145/361598.361623]
• 3: Abbott, R. J., "Report on Teaching Ada," Research Report for DARPA Order No. 3456, Contract No. MDA 903--80-C-0188, Science Applications, Inc., Report No. SAI-81-313-WR, revised Dec 80.
• 4: "Intel 432 Object Primer," Intel Corp, Jan 81.
• 5: Ichbiah, J., Tutorial on Ada presented at the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Ada, 4 Dec 80.
• 6: "Requirements for Ada Programming Support Environments (Stoneman)," Department of Defense, Feb 80. In particular, note section 4.A and 4.B regarding the APSE data base, and section 7.A regarding PASE tools.