Title :
The construction of an object-oriented specification model
Author :
Lee, Sangbum ; Carner, D.L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Abstract :
A methodology which merges the data flow diagram (DFD) and the entity-relationship (ER) models as a front-end to an object-oriented software development process is described. In order to take advantage of the benefits of both approaches and to limit the disadvantages, a tool which builds an object-oriented specification model from a set of data flow diagrams is used. The object-oriented specification is in an Ada-like package format which specifies data objects and their operations. An extended ER model and user documents are produced from the DFD to provide information to the user. The ER produced model is used as an intermediate tool to illustrate the connections between each object
Keywords :
formal specification; object-oriented programming; software engineering; systems analysis; Ada-like package format; data flow diagram; data objects; entity relationship model; front-end; object-oriented software development; object-oriented specification model; Computer science; Data mining; Design for disassembly; Erbium; Object oriented modeling;
Conference_Titel :
Southeastcon '90. Proceedings., IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
DOI :
10.1109/SECON.1990.117839
