Discussion Questions
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What is it possible and not possible to say about data flow by looking at a view in the module viewtype? What about control flow? What can you say about which modules interact with which other modules? |
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Which properties of a module might you think of as worthy of having special notational conventions to express them, and why? For example, you might want to color a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) module differently from modules developed in-house. |
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The depends-on relation among modules is very general. What specific types of dependencies might be reflected in a style in the module viewtype? |
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A primary property of a module is its set of responsibilities. How do a module's responsibilities differ from the requirements that it must satisfy? |
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When documenting a particular system, you might wish to combine modules into an aggregate, to market them as a combined package, for example. Would this package itself be a module? That is, are all aggregates of modules themselves modules? |