Title :
Functional refinement and nested objects for object-oriented design
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA
fDate :
3/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
An extended object-oriented design methodology is proposed which incorporates a top-down, stepwise refinement approach in a coherent fashion. The extended object-oriented design methodology also includes a phase of progressive object refinement to support the nesting of objects, which would allow entities in real life that are composed of subentities to be modeled. A design example is included, and experiences encountered using this methodology in a course are described
Keywords :
Ada; object-oriented programming; software engineering; Ada; nested objects; nesting; object-oriented design; progressive object refinement; stepwise refinement; Computer science; Costs; Design methodology; Helium; Object oriented modeling; Packaging; Process design; Software design; Software systems;
Journal_Title :
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
