Structured Design¶

Stevens, W. P., Myers, G. J., & Constantine, L. L. (1974). Structured Design. IBM Systems Journal, 13(2), 115-139.

Type: Journal article
Intellectual base: Primary research
Year: 1974
Volume: 13
Issue: 2
Pages: 115-139
DOI: 10.1147/sj.132.0115
DOI registrant: IBM
Link: https://doi.org/10.1147/sj.132.0115

Cited by¶

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Domain-specific¶

Structured analysis
- … entities and events, data flows and stores, process bubbles, hierarchy and balancing rule, data dictionary, control notation, process specifications and validation against requirements are explicit. to An applied instance preserves the invariant under changed notation, scale, dataset, jurisdiction, or implementation..

Mechanisms¶

Part-Whole Dependency Map
- It operationalizes coupling and cohesion
  This sourceFrames structured design in terms of strong cohesion within modules and limited coupling between modules.
Relational Dependency Graph
- It gives a claimed independence somewhere to fail publicly, and it turns the tacit couplings a workshop uncovers into a durable, queryable asset — a formal expression of the old software wisdom about coupling and cohesion.
  This sourceStevens, Myers, and Constantine's structured-design work is a foundational source for the software concepts of coupling and cohesion.

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