Comparison of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Methods: A Collection of Papers

摘要

The Department of Information Systems, University of Twente, the Netherlands, andthe Department of Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, have collaborated in performing a comparison study of six popular Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Methods. The report contains the most important resulting papers. The papers present a formal approach to the comparison of information systems development methods. For each of the methods, a formal representation of it is constructed as a meta-process model and a meta-data model. These two meta models of a method represent the steps of the analysis and design, the concepts, and the techniques provided by this method. On the basis of this uniform representation, an extensive comparison of these six methods is then performed. The results are given as a set of tables in which the similarity and differences of these methods are exhibited. Adopting this formal approach, one can avoid errors caused by misunderstanding or misinterpretation of these methods. Consequently, an accurate and unbiased comparison is made possible.