… have had quite an impact on the overall acceptance of structured analysis. Many people argue whether structured analysis is relevant in an environment where users can create their own applications in a matter of hours or days –> Book on the subject of system analysis: the vastly more powerful technology available to system analysts and users alike has changed our focus and perspective.
System developers have had to cope with issues of database systems and real-time system, in addition to the “function-oriented” system originally addressed by structured analysis in the late 1970s.
This book discusses entity-relationship diagrams and state-transition diagrams, in addition to classical data-flow diagrams, and shows how all three models can be integrated; this integration of models will become more and more important over the coming years.
