msellers@mntgfx.mentor.com (Mike Sellers) (05/27/88)
In article <240@scampi.UUCP>, ksh@scampi.UUCP (Kent S. Harris) writes:
# I frequent this news group rarely so I hope I'm not repeating common knowledge.
#
# "Object-Oriented Systems Analysis: Modeling the World in Data"
# by Sally Shlaer and Stephen J. Mellor,
# ISBN 0-13-629023-X (Yourdon Press computing series).
#
# Available from Prentice Hall.
#
# We've had "functional decomposition." We've had "event partitioning."
# Now you can have "object partitioning." I've worked with a client
# company using this latter approach and have been impressed with the
# technique. It's no panacea, but no modeling technique is a substitute
# for clear thinking and a complete understanding of the problem.
# Check it out.
#
# [I have no connection to the authors or publisher, merely an interested reader.]
# --
# Kent S. Harris - consultant - 408-996-1294 - GEnie: K.HARRIS2
I'd like to know more about design methodologies in general, though
specifically for object-oriented design. I've been working in an
object-oriented engineering environment (using C++) for over a year, and
have found the informal methods of problem decomposition quite different from
those used in a classical software environment. Is the above book one of the
better places to start, or are there better sources out there? Or is the
object-oriented paradigm still too new for rigorous methodologies to have
taken root? Any help, information, or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
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