Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1998.648328
