Title: Department of Computer Science Seminar
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2003
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:00pm
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]

Speaker:  Mr Shayne Flint, Lecturer, Department of Computer Science 

Title: So what is xtUML really about? An example for the World Wide Web

                            Abstract

Across all sectors of the Information Technology industry, the World Wide Web 
is increasingly being used to host distributed interactive applications. Many 
of these applications are built using a combination of different technologies 
and approaches that support few, if any, important principles of software 
engineering such as abstraction, separation of specification and 
implementation, information hiding and contracts.

In a previous seminar [1] I presented one approach to dealing with these 
issues during design and implementation activities. In this seminar I will 
show how Executable/Translatable UML (xtUML) can be used to support an 
engineering approach to the entire lifecycle of web applications built upon 
today's popular web technologies.

I will present a complete xtUML specification of a small web application. I 
will then show how the xtUML method can be used to systematically capture the 
design decisions and mechanisms necessary to support a mechanical translation 
of the specification into an application running on the 
Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (LAMP) web application framework.

The seminar will conclude with a demonstration of the above application and my 
views as to what xtUML is really about and why it is important to current and 
future software engineers.

If time permits, I will outline my work on applying translative approaches 
such as xtUML to the interdisciplinary field of systems engineering.

[1]: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars02/dept20020501

Biography:

Shayne Flint joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as an engineering 
officer cadet in 1977. During his time in the RAAF, Shayne worked in various 
avionics engineering and software development positions.

Upon leaving the RAAF in 1985, Shayne began a career in industry during which 
he was involved in all aspects of software engineering with a particular 
focus on real-time embedded systems.

In 1998 he enrolled as a PhD candidate at the ANU to further his interest in 
requirements engineering. His research has led to the development of a novel 
approach to thinking about organisations and the value they derive from 
systems including software and processes.

Shayne is now employed as a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at 
the ANU where he continues his reseach and is involved in the education of 
young software engineers.


URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars03/dept20030730