OOAD Benefits

OOAD provides a way to define a system and a way to model a system

OOAD Benefits
provides a tool set for supporting a software engineering process


OOAD and software engineering process relation provides a structure for design artifacts

scope/vision- use case diagram
conceptual design-use cases
physical design- sequence, class diagrams
implementation-deployment-component diagrams

OOAD Goal
to identify the relevant objects in the subject domain
to discover patterns and relationships


Reference:
http://www.matincor.com/Documents/Intro_OOAD.pdf