A Software Machine Analysis and Design Methodology

Author

Mukhija, Arun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Coll. London, London

fYear

2008

fDate

26-31 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

336

Lastpage

345

Abstract

Every software system is, in essence, a data processing machine. Therefore, the most useful abstraction for analysis, design, and all subsequent stages of software system development and maintenance is to treat it as such - i.e. to treat a software system as data processing machine. In this paper, a novel systematic methodology for software machine analysis and design is presented. This paper also introduces a new type of UML diagram called software machine diagram, which acts as the unifying piece for other types of UML diagrams. A number of advantages offered by this approach as compared to conventional object-oriented analysis and design approaches are outlined in the paper.

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; object-oriented programming; software maintenance; UML diagram; data processing machine; object-oriented analysis; software machine analysis; software system development; software system maintenance; Computer science; Control systems; Data processing; Design methodology; Educational institutions; Encapsulation; Software engineering; Software systems; Temperature control; Unified modeling language; Analysis; Design; Methodology; Software Machine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Advances, 2008. ICSEA '08. The Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sliema

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3218-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3372-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSEA.2008.36

Filename

4668129