Domain Oriented Framework Construction

Object-oriented Application Frameworks is a powerful reuse technique that allows the sharing of requirements, design and code among a set of application systems instantiated from an original framework. Nevertheless, little attention has been given to the role of an explicit Domain Analysis phase in the framework construction process. This paper describes an approach where the requirements capture for an entire application family takes a central role in the framework development, thus facilitating verification processes and providing reliable documentation that will assist the instantiation step.