Process Quality Assurance for UML-Based Projects

2.5. Transactional Analysis in Software Projects

Henderson-Sellers [1997], in his Book of Object-Oriented Knowledge, discusses the comparative growth of interest in objects: “Why all the enthusiasm for object orientation in the last five years or so when the object-oriented languages have been around for over 25 years?” Indeed, object technology finds resurgence in the new millennium due perhaps to plummeting hardware costs, supporting software such as operating systems being able to cope with objects, and of course the ability to model objects uniformly and effectively through the UML. We, the IT community, had no hesitation in embracing object technology despite its remaining dormant in the business arena for more than two decades. Even the ...