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From: bobatk@microsoft.UUCP (Bob ATKINSON)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: OOA/D
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Date: 7 Nov 90 17:25:40 GMT
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Robert D. Thompson writes:

>Coad/Yourdon's book
>Booch's book 

>**My own** opinion is
>that neither book provides a discrete method for deriving class-specs 
>by a step-by-step process.  

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

"Designing Object Oriented Software", by Wirfs-Brock, Wilkerson, and Weiner
(Prentice Hall, 1990) is focussed on this sort of cookbook approach. They
give a follow-your-nose way for deriving class specifications given
requirements which is basically sound.  They don't claim to have discovered
the essence of all design problems, but instead present an approach that
novices can follow regimentally and learn the exceptions to later.


	Bob Atkinson