title: An exchange format for use-cases of hospital information systems.
abstract: Object-oriented software development is a powerful methodology for development of large hospital information systems. We think use-case driven approach is particularly useful for the development. In the use-cases driven approach, use-cases are documented at the first stage in the software development process and they are used through the whole steps in a variety of ways. Therefore, it is important to exchange and share the use-cases and make effective use of them through the overall lifecycle of a development process. In this paper, we propose a method of sharing and exchanging use-case models between applications, developers, and projects. We design an XML based exchange format for use-cases. We then discuss an application of the exchange format to support several software development activities. We preliminarily implemented a support system for object-oriented analysis based on the exchange format. The result shows that using the structural and semantic information in the exchange format enables the support system to assist the object-oriented analysis successfully.
authors.affiliation: Division of Medical Informatics, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, 569-8686, Japan. masuda@poh.osaka-med.ac.jp
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Masuda
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
mesh_terms: D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D019146:Hypermedia; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design