Specialize Process Models may take on one more characteristics of the previous models, however they are applied when a specialized software engineering approach is chosen.

Component Based Development

This model is similar to the spiral model in that it is evolutionary in nature, however some of the step specifics vary.

  1. Available components are found and evaluated.
  2. Component integration is considered
  3. Software architecture is designed to accommodate the components
  4. Components are integrated into the architecture
  5. Comprehensive testing is performed

Formal Methods Model

Formal methods require you to specify, develop, and verify a computer based mathematical notation.

This can cause design and modeling time to be much longer than normal because of these steps, and not everyone is able to come up with formal math proofs, so you don’t see it very often.

Aspect Oriented Software Development

A distinct formal aspect oriented methodology has not been determined yet, so skip this section of the book, unless you are looking to work on developing this methodology.

Specialize Process Models was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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