STL como fonte padronizadora de métodos orientados a objetos na especificação de software.

Abstract

The central motivation of this research is to analyze how the main concepts of objectoriented software specification methods from Rumbaugh, Coad/Yordon, Booch, Shlaer e Mellor, e Wirfs-Brock, could be mapped into Concepts of Semantic Transfer Language. The academic relevance and the available bibliographic resources were the reason for the choice of these five object-oriented software specification methods. The method's concepts were identified and classified according to the structural and behavioral aspects emphasizing their static and dynamic modeling capabilities. These concepts were mapped into concepts of the Semantic Transfer Language - STL. In this work, STL was considered as a standardizing resourse for object-oriented software specification concepts instead of a mechanism to provide communication between CASE tools. The market need a communication standard for CASE tools. The IEEE Standard 1175 committee is working toward a semantic transfer language for semantic transfer information between modules or components. The main contribution of this research is to analyze how STL concepts support the five concepts of object-oriented software specification methods.