Product Description
John Deacon’s in-depth, highly pragmatic approach to object-oriented analysis and design, demonstrates how to lay the foundations for developing the best possible software. Students will learn how to ensure that analysis and design remain focused and productive. By working through the book, they will gain a solid working knowledge of best practices in software development.
The focus of the text is on typical development projects and technologies, showing exactly what the different development activities are, and emphasising what they should and should not be trying to accomplish.
This fresh, comprehensive examination of object-oriented analysis and design in the context of today’s systems and technologies will be a valuable addition to the bookshelves of undergraduates and graduates on systems analysis and design courses.
From the Inside Flap
Many texts on analysis and design hanker after a bygone age. They suppose that one can still do, and perhaps should still do, Systems Analysis. But in this post-computerization age, we must ask, "What systems?" Many texts on object-oriented analysis believe that only a hazy awareness of the nature of object technology is necessary.
John Deacon's "Object-Oriented Analysis and Design" re-examines what we require of analysis when the target is object technology and when we are not just computerizing an existing clerical system. It also presents a comprehensive coverage of modern, best practices for object-oriented design; not only covering well-known topics but including many things often known only to folklore, newsgroups or FAQs.