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- From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
- Subject: Re: Thoughts on the Progression from SA/SD Models to OO Models
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.042155.20179@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
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- References: <1992Jul28.021455.3322@projtech.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 04:21:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.021455.3322@projtech.com>, sally@projtech.com (Sally Shlaer) writes:
-
- > > Notice that the Dynamic Model, represented by the State Machine, has
- > > no clear correspondence to the Object Model.
-
- > In Shlaer-Mellor a state machine corresponds to an object
- > or a relationship on the Information Model.
- > ...
-
- > > For the OO, Schlaer and Mellor have attempted to produce stable state
- > > machines by identifying stable state-features in the problem. It's an
- > > interesting approach; ...
- > ...
- > > It appears we need something better ..., if only because the State
- > > Model isn't well integrated into the other models.
-
- > ...
- > In Shlaer-Mellor, ... there is a very high degree of integration.
- > In fact, there is a sufficient degree of definition and integration
- > that **the analysis models are entirely executable**.
-
- There is a very high degree of synergy; the models work well together.
- In that sense they are well integrated. But whereas the object model
- itself can subsume elements of problem division and problem component
- relationship, a different model (states) must be added to express the
- temporal behavior of the system. It is integrated in effect, but not
- an integral part of the concept of the object.
-
- Schlaer-Mellor may be a step in the right direction as far as temporal
- characteristics of a system are concerned, but I'm not convinced. The
- mapping from system state to component state has not been expressed in
- a model that seems to me amenable to insight.
-
- Let me set that text off. So far as I can see:
-
- The mapping from system state to component state has not
- been expressed in a model that seems to me amenable to
- insight.
-
- In other words, we have a turn-the-crank approach, not an engineering
- model.
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
-
- mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
-