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Design evolution: Implications for academia and industry

  • Session 5 “Teaching Design”
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Software Engineering Education (SEI 1991)

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Abstract

Design technology has grown over the last thirty years in response to improved programming languages and a rapidly expanding software problem domain. Faced with rapidly developing design approaches, it is vital that a meta-study of design be accomplished periodically in order to keep this growth in perspective. Such a study is necessary to determine how design can be most effectively integrated into undergraduate computer science programs and how design should be taught and applied in industry.

This paper represents a brief summary of a recent meta-study of design. In this study, design growth, seen as an evolution, was charted and a taxonomy of design approaches was produced. From this taxonomy, design approaches were analyzed in terms of their underlying theory and were categorized into generations. The results of this study, as presented here, are recommendations for the integration of design into undergraduate computer science programs with a software engineering component and recommendations for the training and use of design in the industrial sector.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, United States Air Force Academy, USA

    Linda M. Northrop & William E. Richardson

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Northrop, L.M., Richardson, W.E. (1991). Design evolution: Implications for academia and industry. In: Tomayko, J.E. (eds) Software Engineering Education. SEI 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 536. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0024293

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