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Software Engineering

Notes 4.5 A Final Comment on Evolutionary Models

This process model recognizes that software evolves over a period of time. It enables the
development of an increasingly more complicated version of the software. The approach is
iterative in nature. Specific evolutionary process models are

1. Prototyping Model
2. Spiral Model
3. Current development model

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
14. The ……………………….. may be in any one of the states noted at any given time.
15. All activities exist concurrently but reside in different……………………..

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Caselet Manufacturing hub called India

ith the German engineering technology major, Siemens, planning to make
India the global hub for manufacturing its key steel plant equipment, it joins
Wthe growing ranks of firms eyeing the country as a launching pad for supplies
to Asian markets. India has the manufacturing and engineering capabilities; it has a pool
of skilled expertise, and its size offers it a strategic advantage for servicing markets from
Myanmar down to Australia and West Asia, if necessary. The Asia-Pacific region is the
epicentre of economic expansion at the moment.
Slowly but steadily, almost unnoticed, a transformation of long-term significance is taking
place in the economy. Indian manufacturing is diversifying not as a result of any policy
initiative but because of conditions on the ground that global players are using to their
advantage.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that India may well be on its way to becoming a global
manufacturing hub. The pace seems to have increased at a time when the Western economies
have yet to witness a pick-up in investments in their own economies.
A couple of years ago, Capgemini Consulting Services undertook a survey of 340 from
among the Fortune 5000 global manufacturing companies and, in its report, observed that
India could well overtake China as a global manufacturing hub. Most of the respondents
stressed that India was large on their radar screen for outsourcing manufacturing over the
next three to four years.
The Capgemini report was issued in 2007; since then, a host of firms from Japanese
automakers to telecom equipment manufacturers and, now, Siemens are packing their
bags for India. The country, the authors of the report were quoted in press reports, could
well witness a change, with manufacturing overtaking IT as the driver of growth.

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