Problem Frames

Problem Frames: Analyzing and Structuring Software Development Problems by Michael Jackson. ISBN 020159627X

This book elaborates the idea of a ProblemFrame that MichaelJackson has been working on for the last decade. I've read the book carefully twice, each time teaching a course using it. I learned a lot the second time through, and now think I understand it. This is very important work, but it has not yet reached the level where it is useful to most developers. We need a body of worked-out problems, and we need to be able to tell developers that if their problem involves a certain ProblemFrame then they should look at certain solution techniques. But I think that this book is a goldmine of ideas for researchers and that twenty years from now it will still be considered an important book. -- RalphJohnson

Here are some reviews:

• http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/jacksonma/papers.html
• http://home.att.net/~stephen_ferg/papers/problem_frames_review.html

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