Software engineering or methods for the multi-person construction of multi-version programs

This talk will describe some methods which have been used to produce a family of related software products using many relatively unskilled programmers. The primary topics of the talk will be:An interpretation of the word "structure" with regard to software;Criteria to be used in decomposing software into modules;Problems and techniques with regard to software module specifications.The talk will be introductory in nature emphasizing the desired …