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Joseph M. Scandura
Abstract
The
goal of this paper is to introduce a method of (domain) analysis that has long
been used in analyzing cognitive domains. Over
the past few years, structural
(cognitive task) analysis has been refined, extended and successfully applied in
software design and programming. Structural
analysis (referred to as Cognitive Object Oriented (COO) design to avoid
confusion with structured analysis) makes it possible: (a) to model
“real world” input-output behavior more directly than in the standard OO
paradigm, (b) to test and debug OO models as they are being designed, (c) to
directly support (as opposed to just enabling) polymorphic operations as well as
class hierarchies, (d) to be implemented in C++
(and other OO languages such as Java) and (e) to support code reuse, including
the reuse of legacy code.
Reference also is made to AutoBuilder, an integrated software engineering
system that supports many of the ideas introduced.
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