Authors: Surya B. Yadav, Ta-Tao Chuang
Tags: 2000, conceptual modeling
The success of object-oriented programming (OOP) and object-oriented design (OOD) has led to the development of object-oriented analysis (00A). However, OOA does not seem as successful as OOD or OOP Our investigation shows that whereas the extant OOA approaches claim to perform systems analysis, this goal is seldom fulfilled. In order to realize the purpose of systems analysis and meet the need for modeling decisional processes, this article proposes a decision-driven object-oriented analysis (DDOOA) method, which is based on the information exchange perspective of decision making. The approach consists of two phases: top-down understanding of the organization and bottom-up specification of the requirements. The understanding phase aims to understand the goal structure, the utilization of resources, and the decision-making processes of an organization. The specification phase is intended to synthesize and document the results of the understanding phase. The DDOOA approach consists of six well-organized steps to help an analyst determine information requirements. Several document tools are proposed to support the approach. An illustrative case is used to demonstrate the features of the approach. Finally, this approach is compared with other OOA methodologies to illustrate the advantages of the DDOOA approach.Read the full paper here: https://dl.acm.org/newsletter/sigmis
