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Experiences from Introducing UML and OO in an Organization

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Authors:

Anders Wall, Tage Tarkpea

Publication Type:

Report - MRTC

ISRN:

MDH-MRTC-91/2002-1-SE

Abstract

In this paper we present experiences from an ongoing investigation of whether Bombardier Transportation, a company within the railbound vehicle domain, can benifit from introducing object-oriented modeling and design, into the development of train applications, or not. Bombardier Transportation administrates a broad set of safety-critical products today including, for instance, autonomous trains and high-speed trains. The investigation was carried out as a pilot project focusing on tool support for the modeling language UML, taking also emergent safety requirements and software reuse into consideration. However, not only technical issues are dealt with, the paper also discusses how to receive acceptance from the organization, and how an organization may be affected by introducing software reuse and safety requirements. The results are presented as a set of findings we have made when using UML and the modeling tool Rhapsody throughout the software development process. In particular, we report the results in the perspective of safety-related software and how such a methodology facilitates and harmonizes with existing safety standards. The results from the investigating has, so far, been well received from the organization.

Bibtex

@techreport{Wall386,
author = {Anders Wall and Tage Tarkpea},
title = {Experiences from Introducing UML and OO in an Organization},
number = {ISSN 1404-3041 ISRN MDH-MRTC-91/2002-1-SE},
month = {December},
year = {2002},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/386-}
}