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From: lawesn@SouthBank.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Systematic OO development method
Message-ID: <623@SouthBank.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-May-87 13:17:32 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 19 13:17:32 1987
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Organization: South Bank Polytechnic, London, SE1 0AA. England
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Keywords: object oriented design, MacApp, Object Pascal, Smalltalk, requirements elicitatio
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Request for information from designers/developers
of object oriented systems:

A Systematic Method for Object-Oriented Development

Yes folks, thats the title of my MSc project.  I am working on some
sort of design methodology for OO systems.  I am particularly interested
in developing a requirements elicitation method targetted to the conceptual
categories of OO languages.  The conceptual categories identified are

	+ messages
	+ classes
	+ methods
	+ inheritance

The idea is to structure information about the target system at the earliest
possible stage.  I would particularly like to open a dialogue with people
who have experience of Object-Oriented design.  The questions I would like to
ask you are:

	+ what kind of approach did you take to the design of your system.
	+ how did you select your classes.
	+ how did you manage inheritance in your system.
	+ did you make use of the model-view-controller paradigm.
	+ based on your experience, how would you approach the same problem
	  if you had to start all over again.

And any other points that you feel are appropriate to OO system design.  I
would also be interested in references (I think I have access to the more
common ones, such as the smalltalk books).  Please reply to this if you have
experience in OO system design, I will summarise findings to the net.

Also I would like to reach people at Apple computer who as we know, have
made significant progress in providing OO tools 'for the rest of us'.  But
I am genuinely interested in discussing this area of design with anybody who
has input on the subject.  By the way, the two systems that I am using are
Smalltalk-80 on a Tek 4406 and MacApp/Object Pascal.

Please reply direct to the address below ( ..mcvax!ukc!idec!kbsc!lawesn )

Thanks in advance...........

Nick


Nick Thompson.                                     ..mcvax!ukc!idec!kbsc!lawesn
South Bank Poly & Imperial College, London.          Phone +44 1 858 4371
c/o 53 Maze Hill, Greenwich, London, SE10 8XQ, UK.
                   "A turkey with a PhD is still a turkey"


This message has been mailed by Nick Lawes on behalf of the forementioned.
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