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From: rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Robert D. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++
Subject: OOA/D
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Date: 6 Nov 90 00:44:12 GMT
Reply-To: rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Robert D. Thompson)
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI
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Ian Kluft amazes us with,

>First, they are different mostly because Coad/Yourdon's book is about object-
>oriented *analysis*.  Booch's book is about object-oriented *design*.  OOA is

Ok, Let's make sure that anybody who cannot read titles gets this right,

	"Object-Oriented Analysis" is about object-oriented *analysis*

				and

	"Object-Oriented Design" is about object-oriented *design*

Whew, glad we got that one out of the way.

Both books discuss methods for identifying objects, attributes, and
relationships - not really sophisticated.  However, Booch provides a
more comprehensive look at the fundamental concepts of object-oriented
methods (classification, decomposition, etc...)  **My own** opinion is
that neither book provides a discrete method for deriving class-specs 
by a step-by-step process.  Booch, however, does go a long way to
discuss the surrounding nature of such a process.   

I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY REFERENCES ON METHODS FOR DERIVING CLASS
SPECIFICATIONS FROM REQUIREMENTS (IDENTIFICATION).  

I am currently working on a method.

<Robert>