Thinking objectively: an introduction to software stability
Communications of the ACM
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This paper aims at modeling a system that has to perform maintenance, by employing a Corrective Action and come up with a stable pattern, which can form a part of such a system, focusing at applying corrective action in a holistic way, rather than tying it on only one application specific context, which might cause potential impedance mismatch between process and workflows at a later stage. This ensures high reusability, ensuring that a design once created can be used to model any application, in any domain, thus making the task of designing more efficient, and the modeled system, largely domain independent. The goal of this paper is to design a Stable Pattern for Corrective Action and to model the system on the basis on an Enduring Business Theme (EBT). Here, the ultimate goal or the EBT is Maintenance and AnyCorrective action is what acts as a workhorse to achieve the goal of maintenance. In this paper, we have first designed a model, which defines the relationship of the Enduring Business Theme to Business Objects. We have then gone ahead with modeling an application scenario, which portrays the reusability of the developed stable pattern. A comparison of the Traditional Models and the Stable Model has also been included to describe how the latter overcomes to drawbacks of the former. Different models, such as, use cases, CRC cards, class diagrams and sequence diagrams have been used to give a better insight into the pattern and possible applications of it.