ksh@scampi.UUCP (Kent S. Harris) (05/18/88)
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
ksh@scampi.sc-scicon.com == {ihnp4,hoptoad,leadsv,ames}!scampi!ksh
ksh@scvcs.scvcs.com == {sun!practic,ames,scampi}!scvcs!ksh
"Not all government subsidized science is necessarily bad; but all bad
science is subsidized -- how else could it survive?" -- Petr Beckman