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The Problem of Defining Objects: A Critical Evaluation of Coad and Yourdon’s Object Oriented Analysis Using the Nimsad Framework

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Methodologies for Developing and Managing Emerging Technology Based Information Systems

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In Object Oriented Analysis by Coad and Yourdon the concept of ‘object’ is considered to have identity, state, behaviour and properties and can be characterised by a set of operations that can be performed on it or by it and its possible states. It is not explained in terms of any meta-level model of human sense-making. That is objects are not defined rather they are described.

This paper critically evaluates Coad and Yourdon’s Object Oriented Analysis (1990), using the NIMSAD framework, with an emphasis on the criteria used to identify objects.

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  1. Department of Computing, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE, UK

    Helen Campbell

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  1. University of Salford, Manchester, UK

    Trevor Wood-Harper PhD, MBCS, MA  & Bob Wood MSc, BSc, MPhil  & 

  2. University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

    Trevor Wood-Harper PhD, MBCS, MA

  3. Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

    Nimal Jayaratna PhD, MSc, MBCS, MIFIP

  4. Curtin University, Perth, Australia

    Nimal Jayaratna PhD, MSc, MBCS, MIFIP

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Campbell, H. (1999). The Problem of Defining Objects: A Critical Evaluation of Coad and Yourdon’s Object Oriented Analysis Using the Nimsad Framework. In: Wood-Harper, T., Jayaratna, N., Wood, B. (eds) Methodologies for Developing and Managing Emerging Technology Based Information Systems. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3629-3_28

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