Object-Oriented Design

Designed as a companion volume to the acclaimed Object- Oriented Analysis, this book focuses on the middle part of the software lifecycle: the activitiy of design. It shows readers how to apply object-oriented design, and how to tailor and expand the method to suit specific organization and project needs. Readers will explore the major issues in OOD; the role of OOD in the systems lifecycle; how to use graphical notation; strategies for creating design; and hints for evaluating the efficiency of a design created with OOD. For software engineers and other users undertaking real-world systems development projects and designing overall software architecture for systems will find this reference approach to improving systems design indispensable.

A companion to Coad's Object-Oriented Analysis, 2nd Ed., this important book builds upon three consistently employed methods of organization: objects and attributes, wholes and parts, and classes and members. Written primarily for the practicing software engineer, the authors discuss the role of OOD in the systems life cycle; describe graphical notation for OOD; and disclose strategies for creating a design.