Developing Object-Oriented Software

This book is simple for the beginner and covers some advanced concepts for not the beginner. Overall a must read for a serious OO programmer/designer. I recommend reading this book as a first or second book on OO design. The case study is great.

I found this book to be very thorough and well-written. It strongly emphasizes a separation between analysis and design, and describes every possible work product I can think of in an OO project. One small criticism is that the coverage of Use-cases is fairly weak (Scenarios should probably be requirements work products rather than analysis).

____________________This book is extremely well organized. It includes outlined summaries of techniques and products as well as detailed text. A refreshing emphasis on detailed implementation practices and case studies.Scope includes analysis, design, Use Cases, Design patterns, and reuse.

The project management process described in this book iscentered around defining and producing a set of deliverables (WorkProducts) and has the following characteristics: · Focuses on Work Products organized into a logical repository known as a Work Book. Each Work Product is concisely defined in the text as to its content, structure, purpose, value and traceability (relationship to other Work Products). The list of Work Products is adaptable according to project needs and extensible in terms of defining additional WPs. The authors define WPs in terms of Objects in the Policy Management domain and present a class-definition style view of their properties and relationships. END