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Announcement

Ada-Belgium presents

Component Based Development
by Rachid Saoui of Aonix

From business object model to bug report;
components and the software lifecycle.

Thursday, June 8, 2000, 18:30

In English. No charge. Everyone welcome.

Room A3.14, Department of Computer Science, K.U. Leuven
Building A, Celestijnenlaan 200, Heverlee, Leuven, Belgium

Available separately are a poster in HTML format (small), and a poster in GIF format (608 Kbytes, 2835x3969 pixels, suitable for printing and putting on announcement boards).

Abstract (provided by the presenter)

Software through Pictures - Lifecycle Component Modeling

How are you going to move your idea from your mind's eye to reality? Building the best software requires the best development process and tools. Software through Pictures (StP) is the complete development solution - offering the services and the tools which lead you smoothly through the development cycle to the software you envision. It allows you to specify requirements for analysis and design, automates implementation and testing, and takes you all the way to the launch of your application. In addition, StP doesn't impose any particular methodology, lifecycle constraints, or process limitations. Rather, it can be customized to fit your style. StP's unbeatable flexibility and scalability make it the ideal development environment to build systems that are able to grow along with your organization, no matter how large or complex they become. And it's the best way to build software that does exactly what it was intended to do.

Validator - Specification-Based Test-Generation Tools

Produce Measurable Testing Savings
Reduce Testing Effort
Complete Projects Sooner
Increase Software Quality

Although software developers devote as much as 60% of their resources to testing, most software projects are nevertheless released with significant defects. Studies show that 16% of manually created test cases are redundant and 10% contain error. The Validator family of specification-based, test-generation tools provides a comprehensive solution that speeds the development process, prevents defects, and enables your department to realize measurable cost savings. Regardless of where in the development process you want to start driving your testing, the Validator family offers exactly the right tool to automatically generate the necessary test cases and scripts from your specifications. Given that over half of software defects are attributed to faulty requirements, the Validator family centers around a requirements-level testing solution called Validator.

ACD - Architecture Centric Development

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) provides a wide range of graphical notations and textual means to describe a software system in an abstract way. Depending upon the architecture of the system, the detailed design is often complex and difficult to maintain. This presentation discusses the Architecture Centric Development (ACD) technology, a proven and comprehensive development approach, where the objective is to get a clearer, compact, more easily understandable and maintainable UML design model. Large parts, conceivably up to 70%, of the application implementation can be generated automatically from the design model according to the target application architecture. The advantages are obvious: dramatically higher productivity, better quality, and easier maintainability, whilst also assisting with creating reusable components.

Participation

Everyone interested is welcome. The event is free.

If you are interested in attending this technical presentation, we would appreciate it if you could inform us by e-mail. Although no formal registration is required, this helps us preparing the event.

We still have a limited number of documentation sets available that were distributed freely at the Ada-Belgium'99 Seminar and the February 2000 technical presentation. Each set includes a.o. the Seminar Proceedings and the Walnut Creek "Ada and Software Engineering" Update CD-ROMs. We also still have some copies of the base CD-ROMs, which together with this update form the complete 4-disc collection.

These sets will be available on a first-come first-serve basis at the June 2000 event for current and new Ada-Belgium members. Please inform us via e-mail if you are interested in receiving the free documentation set and/or CD-ROMs, so we can bring enough copies.

If you are interested to become a new member, please register by filling out the 2000 membership application form and by paying the appropriate fee. See also the list of Ada-Belgium membership benefits.

Directions

An access plan to the Department of Computer Science at the K.U.Leuven is available. Note that the dept. is in building A: a detailed view of Campus Arenberg III and more specifically Celestijnenlaan 200 is available on the K.U.Leuven Overview Map.

Looking forward to meet many of you in Leuven.

Dirk Craeynest
Ada-Belgium Board
ada-belgium-board@cs.kuleuven.ac.be

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Last update: 2000/06/05.