Figure 3: CDM – Compare Design Methods
An experiment evaluating the sensibility of the classification
and comparison of different formalisms has been published [6].
That work used CDM with HFSP and CDM with SLANG to
compare JSD (Jackson System Development) and BOOD (Booch
Object Oriented).
3. APPLICATION OF CDMod
3.1 Approach
The following hypotheses are identified as the basis for our study:
i) Software development models are based on the same principles,
having common components; ii) It is possible to systematically
compare development models; and iii) It is possible to make those
comparisons with a methodology originally proposed to compare
Design Methods.
This study was developed to collect evidences to support
hypothesis iii. We analyze two different development models
identifying similar activities and extracting evaluation criteria. The
instantiation of CDM to make such comparison is called CDMod