SUPPORTING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SCENARIO-BASED OBJECT-ORIENTED ANALYSIS DESIGN

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automate the management of consistency between specifications for describing the behavior of an application and to improve the efficiency of the description of the behavior of the application. SOLUTION: Respective kinds of specifications are prepared by setting order relation to activities by an editing means 1 and the prepared specifications and scenario information such as the order relation, hierarchical relation and/or substitution relation of the activities are stored in first and second storage means 2 and 4. Then, by using the scenario information, the model of the specifications for describing cooperation between objects is automatically generated and the specifications are prepared. Also, a scenario information management means 3 checks whether or not the behavior of the application described by the prepared specifications executes the activities in a correct order and further, suggests change to the relating specifications and activities when the contents of the activities of the specifications and the relation are changed.