tensu@vehka.uta.fi (Tero Ahtee) (06/06/90)
Hi all you in the nets !
I'm trying to make a list of structured analysis and design methods and
methodologies, in chronological order. For example, first was structured
programming (SP), then structured design (SD), and then structured analysis
(SA).
Now I'm a bit confused about when did Tom DeMarco publish his SASS-method
(Structured Analysis and System Specification), was it 1978 or 1979 ??
Is that method the one, which is always called DeMarco's Structured Analysis ?
Did Gane and Sarson first develop a method called SSA (Structured Systems
Analysis) in 1977 or 1978 ? I know, that this SSA is developed further to
STRADIS (Structured Analysis, Design and Implementation of Information
Systems) by Gane and Sarson. Is the 'Gane-Sarson structured analysis' the
same as STRADIS (or SSA) ??
There are also some books ;
* McMenamin and Palmer, Essential Systems Analysis
* Orr, Structured Systems Development
Are these independent methods ? Some persons here in Finland think that
the names of these books are also methods. I haven't heard about methods
called 'Essential Systems Analysis' or 'Structured Systems Development'.
Would someone tell me what is the truth ?
Here follows an evolution of structured analysis methods (my opinion) :
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
SP
HIPO |
| |-| SADT
| | | JSP/JSD
| | |-| |
|------| | | |------|
| | | |
SD (1974-78) <Yourdon>
| |
| |--|
| |
| SA (1978-79) <DeMarco>
|-----| | | |
| | | |--------------------------------|
| | | | |
| | | |-------------------| |
| |--------| | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | STRADIS (1979) | |
| | | | |
| | | IE (1981) |
| | | |
SA/SD (1982-84) | |
|----| |
| | |
| Boeing-Hatley RT |
| (1984) |
| |
|---| |
| | |
| Ward-Mellor RT |
| (1985-86) |
| |
| SSADM (1986)
Hatley-Pirbhai RT
(1987)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have understood that Yourdon's new YSM is almost the same as SA/SD-method.
Am I right ?
Are there any other SA- or SD-methods, that are well known ? Are there errors
in my chart ? Please let me know.
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