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Subject:Re: Object Oriented Analysis Is An Oxymoron From:Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:48:58 -0700 (PDT)
While Use Cases and OOA data models can be useful, OOA
functional modeling techniques (Use Cases, Activity
Diagrams) lack rigor. Only a Data Flow Diagram makes
"holes" in our understanding of the logoc of a system
glaringly obvious. The output of OOA is going to be
disjointed. This is why I say that Object Oriented
Analysis is an Oxymoron.
Tony Markos
--- John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
> I'll admit that unless I'm documenting something
> like an SDK or
> COM-based technologies (which I avoid like the
> plague because I'm in
> over my head), knowing about methods and classes
> might be overkill.
> However, other parts of UML dialgrams, such as use
> cases and database
> structures can be VERY instructive and informative.
> Don't throw away
> part of UML because some of it doesn't apply.
>
> --- Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > John:
> >
> > I must admit, I admire you end-user community.
> > Anyways, my original posting was in reference to
> > design considerations built into UML diagrams -
> such
> > as the packaging of methods into classes. This is
> > different than the design considerations you refer
> to.
>
> =====
> John Posada
> Senior Technical Writer
>
>
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