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Finally we’ve arrived at a state where theory and ideas can be turned into practice. The starting point for this? When a customer arrives on our doorstep, asking us to develop a software system for his application. It finishes when the delivered software runs reliably, correctly and safely in the target system (cynics may argue that by this definition, most jobs are never finished). However, what concerns us here is the piece that fits between the two end states, the design and development phases. Just how do we go about this process? What methods should we use? What tools are available? How can we best use these tools? These, and others, are the questions tackled in the next two chapters.
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Cooling, J.E. (1991). Software analysis and design — methods, methodologies and tools. In: Software Design for Real-time Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2957-0_10
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