Affiliations: Graduate School in Electrical Engineering and
Industrial Computer Science, Federal Technological University of
Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Abstract: Current software design methodologies and techniques enhance
software quality features. However, it is difficult to evaluate if a software
design solution is good enough without a theoretical foundation. The use of
Axiomatic Design, together with a traditional software development methodology,
can improve decision-making during the design process. This work presents an
approach for object-oriented software design that intends to maintain the
quality of the design solution along the development process. The goal of this
approach is to facilitate the use of the Axiomatic Design together with Unified
Modelling Language and object-oriented software development methodologies such
as Unified Process. This design approach relates object-oriented software
design concepts such as use cases, collaborations, classes, operations, and
objects with functional requirements, design parameters, and the zigzagging
process. This work presents a functional decomposition hierarchy, based on
software design concepts, which can be applied together with software design
methodologies. This work also presents a case study to illustrate the
application of a design approach, based on Axiomatic Design, on an
object-oriented design of a real-time embedded software system. The case study
evaluates alternative design solutions to illustrate the application of the
Independence Axiom in order to maintain the quality of the design.
Keywords: axiomatic design theory, object-oriented software design, use cases
