June 8 - Aonix on Component Based Development - Leuven, Belgium (UPDATE)

June 8 - Aonix on Component Based Development - Leuven, Belgium (UPDATE)

[Dirk Craeynest]

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                 U P D A T E D   A N N O U N C E M E N T

                          Ada-Belgium presents

          C o m p o n e n t   B a s e d   D e v e l o p m e n t

                        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

    http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html

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Abstract (provided by the presenter)
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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
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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
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An access plan to the Department of Computer Science at the K.U.Leuven
is available via the URL above.  Also available there 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).

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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                           Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our sponsors for their continued support of our
    activities: ACT Europe, John Robinson & Associates, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Koninklijke Militaire School / Ecole
Royale Militaire (K.M.S./E.R.M.), OFFIS nv/sa, and Universit� Libre de
                         Bruxelles (U.L.B.).

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