- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (30 April 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321774965
- ISBN-13: 978-0321774965
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 18.5 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,460,438 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Here is the first object-oriented development book to provide specific experience-based guidelines to help developers make the right design decisions. This book offers the next step for readers that know the basics of object-oriented development and now need to know if they are doing it right and making the right choices.
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Upon completion of an object-oriented design, you are faced with a troubling question: "Is it good, bad, or somewhere in between?" Seasoned experts often answer this question by subjecting the design to a subconscious list of guidelines based on their years of experience. Experienced developer Arthur J. Riel has captured this elusive, subconscious list, and in doing so, has provided a set of metrics that help determine the quality of object-oriented models.
Object-Oriented Design Heuristics offers insight into object-oriented design improvement. The more than sixty guidelines presented in this book are language-independent and allow you to rate the integrity of a software design. The heuristics are not written as hard and fast rules; they are meant to serve as warning mechanisms which allow the flexibility of ignoring the heuristic as necessary. This tutorial-based approach, born out of the author's extensive experience developing software, teaching thousands of students, and critiquing designs in a variety of domains, allows you to apply the guidelines in a personalized manner.
The heuristics cover important topics ranging from classes and objects (with emphasis on their relationships including association, uses, containment, and both single and multiple inheritance) to physical object-oriented design. You will gain an understanding of the synergy that exists between design heuristics and the popular concept of design patterns; heuristics can highlight a problem in one facet of a design while patterns can provide the solution.
Programmers of all levels will find value in this book. The newcomer will discover a fast track to understanding the concepts of object-oriented programming. At the same time, experienced programmers seeking to strengthen their object-oriented development efforts will appreciate the insightful analysis. In short, with Object-Oriented Design Heuristics as your guide, you have the tools to become a better software developer.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
While the approach is a bit different from the "design patterns" book, this book gave me a very useful set of concrete guidelines for dealing with design issues I face every day in my work. Definitely recommend it to any OO designer. My only caveat would be to start with a already clear separation of "interface" from "class", as the book does not emphasize this.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Object Oriented programming gives the developer a great many choices when designing. This book describes 68 heuristics that help you make optimal design decisions at every step of the way. The explanations are easy to understand and the focus on practical design considerations rather than theory make this book very easy to get through. If it's your job to do OO designs then this book is a must! It does the same thing for OO that Scott Meyer's excellent "Effective C++" books do for C++. The recent popularity of "Design Pattern" books should not distract you from books like this - buy this one first!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
One of the best OO books I've come across. It really puts proper design and the use of patterns into context. I thought I was knew OO before I read this but it just made me realise how much better my designs could be. Its also the kind of book that you will always need to refer back to and the layout makes that possible.
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A complete list of OO design heuristics for programmers with some...
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Required Reading for OO Developers
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