[LINK] Knight of razor to slash government spending
Bernard Robertson-Dunn
brd at iimetro.com.au
Fri Apr 25 15:30:41 AEST 2008
Tom Worthington wrote:
> Technology has moved on a bit. The ARC are building a grants system
> using software engineering principles. That work should be adaptable
> to other grants processes. This is not about fiddling with code SAP
> style, but working from the requirements level. See: "Executable
> Translatable UML for Enterprise Applications", 21 June 2006:
> <http://www.softimp.com.au/softeng/News%20Items/news24Jul06.html>.
I'm not sure that software engineering has moved on much in the past two
decades.
xtUML looks a lot like the CASE tools of the early 1990s. The sales spin
in the link provided is exactly the same as for Seer*HPS which
Imigration bought in 1995 (from memory). As far as I know Immigration
doesn't use CASE tools any more and the Seers*HPS tool has evaporated away.
I'm always amused by software engineering people who push re-use as a
major objective and then go and re-invent the wheel.
http://www.cs.queensu.ca/Software-Engineering/tools.html has a list of
over 500 CASE tools.
In fact SEI at Carnegie Mellon seem to have deprecated the term CASE
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/legacy/case/case_whatis.html
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Regards
brd
Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Sydney Australia
brd at iimetro.com.au
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