Design and Implementation of A Conceptual Class Diagram Elicitation System

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a system which helps to draw a conceptual class diagram from the problem description by combining various class diagram deriving methods. Generally, problem description is a kind of statements including user requirements in the early development phase. The system developer can derive a conceptual class diagram from this document, which playes an important role during the object-oriented software development. Until now, it is not easy for the novice to elicit classes because it requires good experience and intuition. In addition, there are also some difficulties of finding valid conceptual classes by hand when the size of system becomes larger. Therefore, we develop a system to solve these problems so that the developer is able to construct the conceptual class diagram easily.