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Software design and portability

Authors: Patrick BELLOT, Bernard ROBINET

Publication date: November 10, 1998 | Lire en français

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    4. Program organization

    One of the objects of software engineering is the organization of software components. The key word here is modularity. To facilitate porting, programs must be logically organized in hierarchical layers and physically arranged in modules. Various development methods, whether functional or object-oriented such as Booch or Hood [3][10] , help to achieve these characteristics.

    4.1 Software layers

    In a logical organization of programs into hierarchical layers, the programs of a layer use as sub-programs only the programs of the layer itself and those of lower layers. If we take the classic example of a system's graphical interfaces, such as those of...

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