Using metamodelling to analyse the fit of object-oriented methods to languages

Author

Van Hillegersberg, Jos ; Kumar, Kuldeep ; Welke, Richard J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Decision & Inf. Sci., Erasmus Univ., Rotterdam, Netherlands

Volume

5

fYear

1998

Firstpage

323

Abstract

Describes the metamodelling approach towards evaluating the fit of object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) methodologies to object-oriented programming (OOP) languages. Metamodelling has been applied successfully to evaluate and integrate OOAD methodologies. In this paper, the use of metamodelling is extended to describe OOP languages. This paper describes an approach to use OOAD and OOP metamodels to analyse the fit of OOAD methods to OOP languages. The approach is illustrated by evaluating the fit of Booch OOAD on Smalltalk, Eiffel and C++. It is concluded that using metamodelling an objective assessment of the match of an OOAD methodology to an OOP language can be made

Keywords

modelling; object-oriented languages; object-oriented methods; Booch method; C++ language; Eiffel; Smalltalk; metamodelling; object-oriented analysis methodologies; object-oriented design methodologies; object-oriented methods; object-oriented programming languages; Bridges; Computer science; Design methodology; Educational institutions; Information analysis; Information systems; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; USA Councils; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1998., Proceedings of the Thirty-First Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kohala Coast, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8255-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1998.648328

Filename

648328