Commercial object-oriented design methods are often complicated and hard to learn and use. This paper presents a software design method that is a pragmatic and simple approach to designing object-oriented applications. It is based on the fundamental principles of object-oriented design: objects and their cooperation. Design process descriptions are described, considering modeling notations, as ...

We apply the predicative programming formal method of [2] in specifying and designing a solution to the invoicing case study. The method is used in an object-oriented style: first-class citizens of the descriptions are classes and objects. We discuss some of the advantages to using the predicative method in its object-oriented style, as well as its limitations in this problem domain.

Whenever a reverse engineering method is applied to an old software system, the results are mainly limited to its degree of automation. Additional domain knowledge via a human expert helps to overcome this limitation. Modernizing old procedural software for object-oriented reuse requires domain knowledge as well as a balancing of the recovered information. We have developed a reverse engineerin...

Object-oriented techniques like inheritance promise great benefits for the specification and design of parallel hardware systems. The difficulties which arise from the use of inheritance in parallel hardware systems are analysed in this article. Similar difficulties are well known in concurrent object-oriented programming as inheritance anomaly but are not yet investigated in object-oriented ha...

Reuse of already developed object-oriented software components is reduced when software is written in diierent object-oriented languages, or when it is not easy to relocate the software components from one machine to another machine. Software development in a distributed and heterogeneous environment is a solution to this problem. Several common object models have been deened for software devel...

It is often claimed that strengths of object-oriented approaches include the integration of data and process perspectives, opportunities for reuse, and high comprehensibility. In this paper focus is on object-oriented analysis, and the core models of an object oriented analysis method are examined, formalized, and enhanced to deene a general framework. Jacobson's Objectory method is used as a s...

One of the largest challenges facing educators teaching object-oriented courses is deciding how to evaluate each students programming skill. This research focus on how we addressed this challenge in object oriented programming course by proposing a new assessment method to assess students’ object-oriented programming skills. The process begins by identifying generic object-oriented skills that ...