REAPING BENEFITS WITH OBJECT-ORIENTED TECHNOLOGY

Object-oriented technology (OOT) has been a valuable asset to our product development cycle. It resulted in significant reuse of code, design, and analysis; reduced development cycles; simplified system integration; and a more efficient method of generating and using requirements. By incorporating manageable pieces of OOT into our development process, a few techniques at a time, we have been able to learn about it, introduce it at a manageable rate, and still meet our customer commitments without asking for additional resources for OOT work. Our developers and system engineers continue to incorporate OOT techniques into their analyses, designs, implementations, and testing, and look for new areas to enhance our existing paradigm. This paper is for project managers, architects, system engineers, and developers who are using, or are considering using, OOT. Our methods can be used in other projects to shorten the development cycle and enhance product quality.