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| L.L. Constantine, "Comments on 'On criteria for module interfaces'," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 16, no. 12, pp. 1440, December, 1990. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/32.62453, author = {L.L. Constantine}, title = {Comments on 'On criteria for module interfaces'}, journal ={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, volume = {16}, number = {12}, issn = {0098-5589}, year = {1990}, pages = {1440}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/32.62453}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - JOUR JO - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering TI - Comments on 'On criteria for module interfaces' IS - 12 SN - 0098-5589 SP EP EPD - 1440 A1 - L.L. Constantine, PY - 1990 KW - module interfaces; practical criteria; structured design; software engineering; stack interface; data structures; structured programming; user interfaces VL - 16 JA - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering ER - | |||
The commenter acknowledges that the practical criteria provided in the above-titled paper, offer substantive guidelines for designing module interfaces. He points out that the results obtained can be further improved and certain remaining conflicts resolved through consideration of established principles of structured design and software engineering. He illustrates his point with an example involving the specification of a stack interface that requires two or three separate references to replace one. He presents two designs and argues that the first is better. The author refutes the commenter's arguments and argues that the second design is better.
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[3] M. Page-Jones,The Practical Guide to Structured System Design, Yourdon Press, New York, 1980.
[4] D. W. Embley and S. N. Woodfield, "Cohesion and coupling for abstract data types," inProc. Sixth Annu. Conf. Computers and Communication, Scottsdale, AZ, Feb. 1987.