Experienced procedural programmers seem to have difficulty when transferring from a procedural language to an object-oriented language. The problem is how to assist the experienced procedural programmers to make this shift. The long term goal of this research is to identify areas where programmers have problems and to develop an automated system to help them overcome these difficulties. This study examines the class designs produced by procedural programmers and the effect of specifications and domain knowledge on class designs. Two types of specifications were used: those written from a procedural point of view which emphasized the functions and those written from an object-oriented view which highlights the domain entities. In addition, the problem specifications were selected from three different domains in order to assess the effect of domain familiarity. Data was collected using paper and pencil designs and through verbal protocols. The class designs were analyzed to see if the different types produced could be classified and to determine the effect of specification type and domain knowledge.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:pdx.edu/oai:pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu:open_access_etds-5692 |
| Date | 24 March 1993 |
| Creators | MacHaffie, Scott Andrew |
| Publisher | PDXScholar |
| Source Sets | Portland State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Dissertations and Theses |
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