Integrating task modelling into the object oriented design process: a pragmatic approach

It is well recognised that task analysis and modelling are complementary to object oriented software development. While the latter has gained widespread use, the adoption of the former is still rare in industry. We argue that while good methodologies are important, they are not sufficient by themselves to ensure their rapid adoption. What is also needed are tools which will mediate the implementation process. In this paper, we propose a pragmatic approach to integrating task modelling into the object oriented design process. A task modelling tool— TAMOT is presented as part of our approach which uses TAMOT and OO CASE tools as pillars, and task models as a bridge to link task modelling and object oriented paradigms. The integration of TAMOT and CASE tools is achieved through two transformers, BTT and TTB. The BTT will automatically construct corresponding task models from system behaviour models while the TTB would do the reverse.