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Past RESG Event
Problem Frames
Date
10 May 2006
Venue
Michael Young Building, rooms 3 & 4, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
(maps and directions)
Contact Lucia Rapanotti
This combined practitioner and researcher symposium introduced and investigated the Problem Frames approach - an approach to early life-cycle software engineering, which moves the engineer back to the problem to be solved rather than forward to the software and premature solution of a poorly defined problem.
The one-day event combined a morning tutorial on Problem Frames, delivered by Michael Jackson, and an afternoon panel of distinguished speakers.
The morning tutorial covered Problem Frames foundation and techniques, including intellectual tools for representing and analysing software intensive problems. The afternoon session provided a snapshot of current Problems Frames research and practice.
Slides for the tutorial and talks are available below.
Problem Frames Tutorial (.pdf)
Michael Jackson has worked in computer software since 1961. Since 1989 he has worked as an independent consultant and researcher in software development method.
He has described his work in many papers and in four books: Principles of Program Design (1974); System Development (1983); Software Requirements & Specifications (1995); and Problem Frames (2001). He has held a number of visiting posts at universities in England and Scotland. He is currently a visiting research Professor at the Open University and a visiting Fellow at the University of Newcastle.
Practically Perfect Problem Frames (.pdf)
Jon G. Hall is a Senior Lecturer in the Computing Department at The Open University. He has held research positions in the universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and York, working on many aspects of the engineering of computing systems. His current focus is requirements engineering, especially its foundations, and the relationship of problems and solutions. Jon has a PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1996), and an MBA from the Open University (2003).
Problem Frames and UML Description Development (.pdf), (.zip)
Christine Choppy is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Paris 13. Her research interests include formal specifications and how to promote their use in system development. This lead her to work on algebraic specification languages and tools, on extensions for dynamic system specifications, and on methods for writing specifications with the help of a structured description using Problem Frames. The nice structure provided by Problem Frames is used to develop UML descriptions and architecture.
Christine is a member of the IFIP WG1.3 (Foundations of System Specification), the international vice-president of SPECIF (French association for academic in computer science), and a member of the EuroCERI (Computing Education and Research Institute) board.
Download slides for all three talks: (.zip)
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