Object-oriented methodologies of Coad and Yourdon and Booch: comparison of graphical notations

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Abstract

The key aspects in a methodology are the concepts on which it is founded, a process or set of activities where the concepts are used and finally a notation. We are concerned here with the graphical notation aspects of the object-oriented methodologies of Coad and Yourdon and Booch. We try to establish an objective comparison of the notation semantics used by these two methodologies for expressing the Object Model. A simplified example of a real inventory problem has been selected as case study, in order to establish some of these comparisons. Coad and Yourdon methodology has been used to analyse the inventory problem, and then Booch method was used to design. The main points of the notation comparison obtained are presented in Table 1 at the end of this work.

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This research is supported by the French Postgraduated Cooperation Program in Informatics of the CEFI-CONICIT and the New Technology Program of the BID-CONICIT.

This work was completed while the authors were visiting the Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI), Orsay, France.

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