Comparison of OOA and real-time SA—from the experiment of analyzing an image filing system

Abstract

The second stage of our project involved the evaluation of its usefulness. Our approach was to apply both the Structured Analysis and the Object-Oriented Analysis methods to the same subsystem of the image filing system and to evaluate their analysis processes and the corresponding results. Here, we applied Rumbaugh’s Object Modeling Technique (a.k.a. OMT) as an analysis method, not because Coad’s OOA is insufficient but because OMT suggests more rigid processes, models, and notations for applying the method. This experience paper describes the overview of the second stage of our project. Target Application: