OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE USE

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
SYNAPSES	ThoughtWorks, Inc.	200 E. Randolph St., 25th Floor Chicago IL 60601	object oriented software for use in the development of and incorporated into other application software and manuals distributed therewith;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

Common data structures associated with procedurally-oriented software, such as Fortran COMMON blocks, are translated into object-oriented (OO) classes. Procedurally-oriented software modules are reduced in complexity by extracting an appropriate number of sub-modules from the original source code so that the original module and each extracted module is below a predetermined complexity level, if possible. The original module and extracted modules are assigned to an object-oriented class based upon a measure of each modules' association to the respective class' data members, where the assigned modules are then translated into object-oriented methods. This approach greatly reduces overall system development time and costs by automatically generating maintainable object-oriented code based upon translated procedurally-oriented source code. Man-hours are further saved by automatically documenting the newly generated object-oriented classes and by automatically generating test suite files for use in verifying and troubleshooting the automatically generated object-oriented classes.