[comp.object] Comparison and Integration of JSD and OOD

song@berault.ics.uci.edu (Xiping Song) (05/09/91)

  Hi,

    It has been recognized that JSD could be integrated with
  Booch's OO design. However, I have not seen any publication
  that compares JSD with OOD and thus discuss their integration.
  If anyone has seen some work related to this issue, would you
  please let me know the pointers to the work. Your help would be
  greatly appreciated.

   Xiping Song

jcm@mstr.hgc.edu (James McKim) (05/09/91)

In article <2828332E.18782@ics.uci.edu> song@berault.ics.uci.edu (Xiping Song) writes:
>
>  Hi,
>
>    It has been recognized that JSD could be integrated with
>  Booch's OO design. However, I have not seen any publication
>  that compares JSD with OOD and thus discuss their integration.
>  If anyone has seen some work related to this issue, would you
>  please let me know the pointers to the work. Your help would be
>  greatly appreciated.

Hmm, who did the recognizing? I believe Booch made a passing comment
to the effect that JSD might work as a front end to OOD in his
classic "Object Oriented Development" paper, _TSE_, Feb, 1986.
But I'm not sure he still feels that way as there's no such mention
in his 1991 text, _OOD with Applications_. Are you out there, Grady?

In any case, I do know of a paper comparing the two methodologies.

  "JSD and Object Oriented Design" by Birchenough and Cameron

It appears in _JSP & JSD: The Jackson Approach to System Development_,
2nd edition, IEEE Computer Society Press. The book has a 1989 copyright
date, but the paper _feels_ older. Its latest reference is Booch's paper
cited above.

>
>   Xiping Song


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roelw@cs.vu.nl (Wieringa j Roel) (05/14/91)

I will have a paper in Data and Knowledge Engineering called Steps Towards 
a Method for the Formal Modeling of Dynamic Objects, by the end of this year
or the beginning of the next. It analyzes JSFD on its usefulness as an OO
analysis method. I don't consider Booch's design method really. I will
have another paper in an IFIP conference to be held in Quebec City in october
this year, in which I compare OO analysis with structured analysis. The
proceedings will be published by North-Holland.

I could email you these papers in source format (troff -ms and Latex, 
respectively), if you are interested.

Roel