Experience with an approach to comparing software design methodologies Export

@article{citeulike:2902690, abstract = {Introduces a systematic and defined process called \“comparison of design methodologies\” (CDM) for objectively comparing software design methodologies (SDMs). We believe that using CDM will lead to detailed, traceable, and objective comparisons. CDM uses process modeling techniques to model SDMs, classify their components, and analyze their procedural aspects. Modeling the SDMs entails decomposing their methods into components and analyzing the structure and functioning of the components. The classification of the components illustrates which components address similar design issues and/or have similar structures. Similar components then may be further modeled to aid in more precisely understanding their similarities and differences. The models of the SDMs are also used as the bases for conjectures and analyses about the differences between the SDMs. This paper describes three experiments that we carried out in evaluating CDM. The first uses CDM to compare Jackson System Development (JSD) and Booch's (1986) object-oriented design. The second uses CDM to compare two other pairs of SDMs. The last one compares some of our comparisons with other comparisons done in the past using different approaches. The results of these experiments demonstrate that process modeling is valuable as a powerful tool in analysis of software development approaches}, author = {Song, Xiping and Osterweil, L. J.}, booktitle = {Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on}, citeulike-article-id = {2902690}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/32.286419}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=286419}, comment = {Some researchers investigated and proposed meta-modeling techniques based on Entity Relationship Model[6], Object-Oriented Model (MOF)[2], Predicate Logic (including Object Z)[18] and attribute grammars[20].}, doi = {10.1109/32.286419}, journal = {Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on}, keywords = {attribute, grammars}, number = {5}, pages = {364--384}, posted-at = {2008-06-17 16:19:23}, priority = {0}, title = {Experience with an approach to comparing software design methodologies}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/32.286419}, volume = {20}, year = {1994} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2902690 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2902690 N2 - Introduces a systematic and defined process called “comparison of design methodologies” (CDM) for objectively comparing software design methodologies (SDMs). We believe that using CDM will lead to detailed, traceable, and objective comparisons. CDM uses process modeling techniques to model SDMs, classify their components, and analyze their procedural aspects. Modeling the SDMs entails decomposing their methods into components and analyzing the structure and functioning of the components. The classification of the components illustrates which components address similar design issues and/or have similar structures. Similar components then may be further modeled to aid in more precisely understanding their similarities and differences. The models of the SDMs are also used as the bases for conjectures and analyses about the differences between the SDMs. This paper describes three experiments that we carried out in evaluating CDM. The first uses CDM to compare Jackson System Development (JSD) and Booch's (1986) object-oriented design. The second uses CDM to compare two other pairs of SDMs. The last one compares some of our comparisons with other comparisons done in the past using different approaches. The results of these experiments demonstrate that process modeling is valuable as a powerful tool in analysis of software development approaches IS - 5 JF - Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on EP - 384 TI - Experience with an approach to comparing software design methodologies VL - 20 T2 - Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on SP - 364 KW - attribute KW - grammars N1 - Some researchers investigated and proposed meta-modeling techniques based on Entity Relationship Model[6], Object-Oriented Model (MOF)[2], Predicate Logic (including Object Z)[18] and attribute grammars[20]. AU - Song, Xiping AU - Osterweil, LJ PY - 1994/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/32.286419 ER -