Evaluating the Semantic Similarity of Object-Oriented Domain Models: Achieving Greater Predictability by Performing Behavioral Analysis First

The main goal of any object-oriented analysis (OOA) method is to clarify a problem by modeling the problem and its domain. Therefore, the most important artifact that results from OOA is the domain model, which is usually realized as a class diagram that describes the core concepts in the domain and their relationships. Ideally, a mature engineering process is repeatable: analysts given the same problem and instructions to follow the same OOA process should produce semantically similar domain models. This work compares the observed semantic similarity among the different domain models produced by one process for one system by different users of the process when the process is one