Volume 7

Volume 7, Number 23

April 9, 2009

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Bringing OOAD&P Together: A Synthesis Approach


Daniel V. Goulet
University of Wisconsin Stevens Point
Stevens Point, WI 54481 USA

Robert Dollinger
University of Wisconsin Stevens Point
Stevens Point, WI 54481 USA

Abstract: Modern software development draws on many concepts, strategies, processes, tools, and techniques: 3-Tier Architecture, Model Driven Architecture, UML, Unified Process, visual modeling, visual programming, round-trip engineering, object-think, use case driven, incremental and iterative, documentable, etc. Each has a different objective. Each has a different point-of-view. Each has a different level of abstraction. None address the melding of these various ‘ways of doing’ software development into a cohesive and coherent, ‘best-of-breed’ approach to software development. Laying out a strategy that can fall along a continuum from water-fall to agile, the authors bring their OOAD & P ‘best-of-breed’ decisions to select components for a synthesized strategy that is incremental, iterative, traceable, documentable, and teachable to beginning undergraduate software developers.

Keywords: Object-Oriented Analysis, Design and Programming; software development strategies

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Recommended Citation: Goulet and Dollinger (2009). Bringing OOAD&P Together: A Synthesis Approach. Information Systems Education Journal, 7 (23). http://isedj.org/7/23/. ISSN: 1545-679X. (A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2006: §2333. ISSN: 1542-7382.)