GeoOOA: Object-Oriented Analysis for Geographic Information Systems

We stress the need of a domain-tailored requirements engineering method for the development of GISapplications. To this end, we discuss three GISapplication scenarios, the so-called topological scenario, the network scenario and the (spatio-) temporal scenario, we frequently encountered in real life projects. Our investigations reveal that conventional RE-methods like e.g. Coad/Yourdon's Object-Oriented Analysis (OOA) are not capable to model GIS-speci c requirements appropriately. To overcome the de ciencies of conventional OOA we introduce GeoOOA which complements OOA by suitable domain-tailored primitives and allows for a more adequate treatment of GISspeci c requirements. We provide GeoOOA-models of a broadcasting corporation, an electric power supply system and a land registry as rst validation steps for the usefulness of GeoOOA.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: ICRE
• Authors: Georg Kösters, Bernd-Uwe Pagel, Hans-Werner Six
• Keywords: ICRE 1996, Requirements Engineering Method, So-called Topological Scenario, Software Engineering, Temporal Scenario