Abstraction-based software development

  • Authors:
  • Valdis Berzins;Michael Gray;David Naumann

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis;Artificial Intelligence Group, Austin, TX;Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

A five-year experience with abstraction-based software-development techniques in the university environment indicates that the investment required to support the paradigm in practice is returned in terms of greater ability to control complexity in large projects—provided there exists a set of software tools sufficient to support the approach.