TY - JOUR
AU1 - Høydalsvik, Geir Magne
AU2 - Sindre, Guttorm
AB -  On the purpose of Object-Oriented Analysis Geir Magne Htiydalsvik and Guttorm Sindre University of Trondheim Norwegian Institute of Technology Department of Computer Systems and Telematics UNIT-NTH/IDT, N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY. geirmag@idt.unit.no, guttorm@idt.unit.no Abstract The paper discusses the general purpose of analysis and evaluates OOA with respect to this, arguing that OOA does not deliver what it claims to do. The two major problems are that OOA often does not meet the full needs of the analysis phase, and that the transition to design is not always as easy as promised. The last point is illustrated by a solution to the OOPSLA conference registration problem. Due to the mentioned shortcomings, OOA/OOD was not found sufficient for forming the basis of a common development methodology for three Norwegian software producers in a technology transfer project with our university. The suggestion made is that OOA should become problem-oriented rather than target-oriented. object-oriented Keywords: analysis, problem-orientation, suitability, design Introduction The background of this work emerged in the NSR project ™. NSR is a cooperation between three Norwegian software companies, all somehow relying on object technology and eager to strengthen their competence in this respect. One of the work packages in the project has 
TI - On the purpose of object-oriented analysis
DA - 1993-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/on-the-purpose-of-object-oriented-analysis-sn85ESqnxu
VL - 28
IS - 10
DP - DeepDyve
ER -