leendert@cs.vu.nl (Leendert van Doorn) (09/20/90)
A friend of mine got hold of a very bad Xerox copy of the following article:
Synthesis / Analysis Object Oriented Functional Requirements Definition
Wayland Systems, Seattle, Washington
She would like to know the following:
1. In what journal or book did this article (chapter?) appear ?
2. More information about Synthesis (any pointers are welcome).
Thanks, Leendert
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Leendert van Doorn <leendert@cs.vu.nl>
Vrije Universiteit / Dept. of Maths. & Comp. Sc.
Amoeba project / De Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam / The Netherlandsfassbend@hpbbi4.BBN.HP.COM (#Andreas Fassbender) (09/21/90)
> Leendert van Doorn asks: > > A friend of mine got hold of a very bad Xerox copy of the following article: > > Synthesis / Analysis Object Oriented Functional Requirements Definition > Wayland Systems, Seattle, Washington > > She would like to know the following: > > 1. In what journal or book did this article (chapter?) appear ? It appeared in two journals: 1) Hotline on OO Technology 2) [Ed Yourdon's] American Programmer (I hope I got the names right) > 2. More information about Synthesis (any pointers are welcome). Synthesis was developed by Meilir Page-Jones and Steve Weiss (you may know Meilir as the author of a book about Structured Design). Personally I do not know what is in the article, here is an excerpt from a two-page leaflet about Synthesis, for those who have not heard anything about the methodology. "Abstract The need for appropriate Object Oriented analysis and design tools will grow as the size and complexity of systems built with Object Oriented programming languages does. The lessons we learned from the traditional Structured Methods are relevant. As its name implies, Synthesis takes the best from existing software specification methods and applies them specifically to the Object Oriented environment. Although Synthesis is built from a set of tried and tested methods, its approach is new and uniquely suited to the new programming paradigms that are now evolving." So far for marketing ;-) It continues more specific: "[...] Synthesis is not solely a process modeling technique or a data modeling technique. The modeling focal point is an information model containing entity and relationship types (from which objects are derived) augmented with the impacting process and states. System information which was formerly distributed throughout traditional models is now organized around objects." --- Andreas Fassbender Hewlett-Packard GmbH Boeblingen, West Germany