Comparing OPEN and UML: the two third-generation OO development approaches

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Title: Comparing OPEN and UML: the two third-generation OO development approaches
Author(s): Henderson-Sellers, B.; Firesmith, D. G.
Abstract: Recent efforts have been made to coalesce object-oriented methods and object-oriented modelling languages and, at the same time, to put them on a more rigorous footing by the use of metamodelling techniques. Two so-called third-generation approaches, OPEN (a full methodology) and UML (a modelling language) are described and compared here. These two approaches are compared by focusing on two main areas: (1) process and lifecycle support and, predominantly, (2) metamodel and notation.
Publication type: Journal article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Department of Computer Science
Source: Information and Software Technology, Vol. 41, no. 3 (Feb 1999), pp. 139-156
Publication year: 1999
FOR Code(s): 0803 Computer Software; 0806 Information Systems
Keyword(s): Computer simulation languages; Data structures; Metamodels; Methodology; Modelling language; Notation; Object oriented programming; Object technology; Software engineering; UML programming language
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0950-5849
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0950-5849(98)00127-X
Peer reviewed