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Started by Howard C. Simonson
Fri, 24 Oct 1986 09:31
Software Project Management
Author: Howard C. Simonson
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1986 09:31
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1986 09:31
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In an effort to tap the power of the net...
I have been looking for a package(s) for the Mac that does ( what's the
current catch-phrase ) Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE); that
*sounds* right. Anyway, I'm looking for the MacProject of software
development. The ability to draw a structured flow diagram of our
software project, refine it, add attributes of some sort to different
items in the diagram. Oh, someone must know more about this. From what
I understand, there are several such packages available for the little
blue monster. ( I get this junk mail, about software engineering, and
trying to track it on the IBM PC. )
So in conclusion, anyone with pointers to this genre, please mail me a
line on what's out there and where. If there is incredible response or
interest in results, I'll post a compilation. Thanks in advance...
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I have no technical challenges, Howard C. Simonson
just political ones. ...{dragon,hplabs,ihnp4,nsc}!amdahl!howard
[ Opinion? What opinion!? I think you have the wrong guy... ]
Re: Software Project Management
Author: Leonard Vanek
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1986 14:29
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1986 14:29
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In article <4033@amdahl.UUCP> howard@amdahl.UUCP (Howard C. Simonson) writes:
>In an effort to tap the power of the net...
>
>I have been looking for a package(s) for the Mac that does ( what's the
>current catch-phrase ) Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE); that
>*sounds* right. Anyway, I'm looking for the MacProject of software
>development. The ability to draw a structured flow diagram of our
>software project, refine it, add attributes of some sort to different
>items in the diagram.
There is such a product! It is called "Deft" and it is
produced by
Disus
Suite 110, 557 Dixon Rd.
Rexdale, Ontario M9W 1H7
Canada
phone (416) 249-2246
Disus is primarily a developer of VMS software, but they
wrote Deft originally because they needed it. I have used a
demo version and I am *very* impressed. I have a purchase
requisition in for it right now.
Deft actually consists of 4 components, each of which is
sold separately. These components and their (Canadian)
prices are:
"D" - an editor for Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs) based
the Gane and Sarson Methodology, which is
similar to Yourdon's. This is actually what
was asked for in the original query. ($3000)
"e" - an editor for Entity-Relation Diagrams (ERDs)
which is used for design of data structures.
($3000).
"f" - a screen forma design tool plus other features
that I am not sure about because this was not
part of the demo. ($2000)
"t" - a translator to convert the Mac-based design
to a prototype implementation on a VAX. This
is not yet available and will have to be
customized to various possible implementation
environments (e.g. commercial DBMSs such as
Ingres and Oracle as well a VAX COBOL, etc.)
($10,000)
The first two components together make a very good design
tool. There is no need to get the others if you don't want
or need them.
Of course, the usual disclaimer. I have no connection with
Disus in any way except as a potential customer.
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