Translating OMT state diagrams with concurrency into SDL diagrams

Defining a complete methodology for the developing of an application is a challenge for many software engineering specialists. Although many such methodologies have been developed, few of them take into consideration all the aspects that can come up while developing complex applications. Many times, although a general outline for the methodology is being defined, for some important features, like concurrency, no handling solution is given. Our paper proposes a methodology that takes into consideration the concurrency while integrating the object-oriented analysis and specification design, by using the OMT methodology for the requirements analysis, an extension of OMT*, OMT*+, for system design and the formal description technique SDL for detailed design. We propose the translation of OMT state diagrams with concurrency into SDL diagrams with concurrent processes.