Boeing
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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 06:53:38 -0700
03 00050 60 03041601
Mr. Rod Welch
rodwelch@pacbell.net
The Welch Company
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111 2496
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Subject:
Meeting Notes Errors Discovered by Proof
Dear Rod,
[Responding to
your letter
yesterday on advantages for a dual-environment
design to reduce errors...]
.. Your point that multiple views of created content facilitates proofreading
is well taken.
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It is definitely something to consider before introducing too much of the
"single tool" concept into SDS.
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This is a factor that I have folded into my ideas on software design -
artifacts that represent different mental activities should have different
representations. I have seen attempts to design software using pseudocode (a
formal English that looks a lot like code) come to grief because the
application was being coded rather than designed, and the design step got
missed.
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For somebody who is experienced, this is not so much an issue, but most
people have a hard time separating concerns.
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I think that this is part of the problem with maintaining software
requirements in Word - it looks like a prose document, so it gets treated as
a prose document, not a set of requirements.
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Given the value of this, perhaps we should consider (for the new SDS) the
ability to launch the published page in the browser for review even during
content creation and as a preparation for the web. Perhaps confidential
record could be published to WL only and not to WT to support this sort of
proofreading?