Review of "Systems Analysis and Design: A Structured Approach, by Davis, William S.", Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1983

Abstract

About ten years ago, the structured concepts hit programming, and books were published with "structured" in the title but little in the material. The structured programs concept was easy to see but adapting it by programmers was difficult. Structured for systems is now becoming popular, and in the same fashion, "structured" is somewhere in the title. In addition, the structured systems concepts have several methodologies and few examples have been available without high costs to an organization. The above noted book seems to have met the challenge of content and examples better than others I have examined or reviewed. While some books have been strong in content, the examples have been weak. Also some books have emphasized more real methodology or skimmed several.