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From: ksh@scampi.UUCP (Kent S. Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Shlaer & Mellor - new book
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Date: 17 May 88 21:32:46 GMT
Organization: Systems Control, Palo Alto, CA
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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.]

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