Why object oriented software development process difference from conventional software development?
To a certain extent, software development processes can be mixed and matched with various programming paradigms. For instance, you could use a modern agile software development process like XP with an older paradigm such as COBOL procedural programs. I don’t think that anyone is mixing these particular examples, but it is theoretically possible. That being said, there is a certain tendency for projects using object oriented paradigms to also use more modern development processes. This could be partially attributed to timing issues — when object oriented programming languages were becoming more popular, so were more iterative, non-traditional development processes. When people were learning a new language, perhaps they felt like it was more appropriate to learn a new process as well. That isn’t completely true, of course. There were OOP languages going back to the 1980’s (Smalltalk), and it would be some time (15 years?) before agile development processes would start getting attention.
