Object-oriented analysis

Object–Oriented Analysis means gathering software requirements according and identifying the elements of the problem domain. The requirements and domain problem are created with an object model in mind, which ultimately guides the whole process through to completion.

Although the object-oriented approach started as a programming methodology since 1960 with Simula, it wasn't until later that this became a major software design paradigm with Xerox Park and an published article by Grady Booch in 1980 that emphasised the features of an object-oriented mindset for software developers.
Codd eventually expanded upon this study to create what is known today as object-oriented methods.


In object-oriented approach, requirements are based on objects that the system interacts with. Grady Booch has defined OOA as a method for identifying requirements from the perspective of the classes and objects found in the vocabulary of the problem domain.

The primary tasks in object-oriented analysis are:

-Identifying objects;
-Organising them through some standard model diagram;
-Defining their attributes and methods;
-describing they interact with user, external agents and each other

In OOD, concepts in the analysis model are technology−independent so they can modelled into classes, constraints and interfaces to provide a suitable solution to the domain problem. The implementation includes restructuring of the class its associations.
Grady Booch has defined object-oriented design as "a method of design encompassing the process of object-oriented decomposition and a notation for depicting both logical and physical as well as static and dynamic models of the system under design".
Object-oriented programming uses these advantages to achieve great gains suc has modularity and reusability.

According to Grady Booch "object–oriented programming is a method of implementation in which programs are organized as cooperative collections of objects, each of which represents an instance of some class, and whose classes are all members of a hierarchy of classes united via inheritance relationships".