Integrating Adaptive Programming into Existing Object-Oriented Analysis Design Methods: Do It Yourself Adaptiveness

摘要

The principles of adaptive object-oriented programming hold many promises for the speeding up of systems development and the reuse of software. Unfortunately it is hard to study these principles without their current context of the Demeter method. In this paper the theory and instrumentation of method engineering is applied to define a clear, concise and ready-to-use method fragment to support adaptive functionality specifications. The fragment is not embedded in the context of a specific method and can be used to integrate adaptiveness into nearly all object-oriented analysis and design methods. As an example the fragment is inte-grated into Object Modeling Technique (OMT) from Rumbaugh et al.