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From: msellers@mntgfx.mentor.com (Mike Sellers)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Object oriented design methodologies (was Re: Shlaer & Mellor...)
Summary: Information or pointers, please
Message-ID: <1988May26.113651.277@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Date: 26 May 88 18:36:48 GMT
References: <240@scampi.UUCP>
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon
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In article <240@scampi.UUCP>, ksh@scampi.UUCP (Kent S. Harris) writes:
# 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

I'd like to know more about design methodologies in general, though 
specifically for object-oriented design.  I've been working in an 
object-oriented engineering environment (using C++) for over a year, and 
have found the informal methods of problem decomposition quite different from
those used in a classical software environment.  Is the above book one of the 
better places to start, or are there better sources out there?  Or is the 
object-oriented paradigm still too new for rigorous methodologies to have 
taken root?  Any help, information, or pointers would be greatly appreciated.



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Mike Sellers                           ...!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!msellers
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