HOOD (''Hierarchic Object-Oriented Design'') is a detailed software design method. It is based on hierarchical
decomposition
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of a software problem. It comprises textual and graphical representations of the design.
HOOD was initially created for the
European Space Agency and is used in such varied domains as aerospace (
Eurofighter Typhoon
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,
Helios 2 Earth Observation ground control,
Ariane 5 on-board computer), ground transportation, and nuclear plants.
HOOD main target languages are
Ada
Ada may refer to:
Places
Africa
* Ada Foah, a town in Ghana
* Ada (Ghana parliament constituency)
* Ada, Osun, a town in Nigeria
Asia
* Ada, Urmia, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
* Ada, Karaman, a village in Karaman Province, ...
,
Fortran and
C.
External links
Introduction to HOODHOOD page at ESA
*
tp://ftp.estec.esa.nl/pub/wm/anonymous/wme/Web/HUM.ps.gz ESA's HOOD user manual gzipped postscript
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Software design
Data modeling languages
Specification languages