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This paper presents a critical evaluation, from a computer science point of view, of the Fusion method for object-oriented development and it sketches some guidelines for improvement. It focuses on three critical observations: (1) weakness of the ontology of the object model, (2) lack of formality, and (3) failure of the iterative process to construct comprehensive requirements and analysis models. A longer version of the paper [3] illustrates our observations with examples and develops our suggestions for improvement.
This work is part of the EROOS (Evaluation and Research on Object-Oriented Strategies) project, principally based at the University of Louvain and the University of Brussels.
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Pirotte, A., van den Berghe, T., Zimanyi, E. (1995). The Fusion object-oriented method: an evaluation. In: Bartosek, M., Staudek, J., Wiedermann, J. (eds) SOFSEM '95: Theory and Practice of Informatics. SOFSEM 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60609-2_30
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