Object-oriented modeling with ADORA
Information Systems - The 13th international conference on advanced information systems engineering (CAiSE*01)
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ADORA (Analysis and Description of Requirements and Architecture) is an approach to object oriented modeling that is based on object modeling and hierarchical decomposition, using an integrated model. The ADORA language is intended to be used for requirements specifications and high-level, logical views of software architectures. In order to assess the comprehensibility and the appeal of specifications written in ADORA we conducted a controlled experiment with students. We wrote two specifications of the same problem in ADORA and in UML and let the students study them. Then we tested the students'' comprehension by asking questions about the contents of the specification and tested how they liked ADORA in comparison to UML by asking questions about personal preferences. In this report we describe the experiment and report the results.