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Why need Software Standards...?
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According to Martin Fowler (Editor IEEE Journals), Modeling methods in past were not very formal affaires. Definitions were left to intuition, and there were many gaps. People with a formal methods background criticized these methods for software projects. They argued that the lack of rigor meant to too much ambiguity. But the reality is that many people found that despite this lack of formality, the informal methods were generally more useful and fast resulting than the formal methods. In practice it seems that informality is an advantage.