Analysing Systems
Determining Requirements for Object-oriented Development
Published on 1. July 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-0-13-301433-4 (ISBN)
Description
This text describes and explains the ORCA (Object-oriented Requirements Capture Analysis) method. It is aimed at those interested in the description and analysis of complex systems. In particular, it is aimed at those responsible for producing strategies for the use of information technology and requirements for software development. Producing and analyzing models of systems is a primary activity in ORCA and two complementary modelling languages are provided for this purpose. These languages are illustrated throughout the book.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
Adult education
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-301433-4 (9780133014334)
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Content
Why ORCA; ORCA by example; ORCA's key ideas; introduction to the case study; preliminary analysis; process design; Old World purpose; Old World behaviour; pathology and prescriptions; specifying the New World; purpose and behaviour; behavioural modelling; do's and don'ts; introduction to tailoring; organizing and organizational - national parks; shaking up the business - just in time; the case of the missing Old World - spreadsheets and telephony; new purpose in life - map making; nothing new under the sun - a lending library; no-one to talk to - Ahab applied to NIMWeC; putting together an analysis project; life after ORCA - onwards into development; defining modelling languages; Grampus - the purposive modelling languages; Beluga - the behavioural modelling language.