Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design Using UML - Simon Bennett,Steve McRobb,Ray Farmer

Simon Bennett, Steve McRobb, Ray Farmer
(System Architect, GEHE UK, cONVENTRY, U.K., De Montfort University, Coventry University)

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Introduction

Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design using UML 3rd edition is the thoroughly revised and updated edition of this best-selling text. With over 40,000 copies sold world-wide, Bennett, McRobb and Farmer?s text remains a key teaching resource for Systems Analysis and Design courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate Masters levels.

About the book

The book provides a clear, practical framework for development that uses all the major techniques from UML 2.0. It follows an iterative and incremental approach based on the industry-standard Unified Process. It places systems analysis and design in the context of the whole systems lifecycle, and includes generic analysis and design issues. Two realistic case studies are used throughout the book - one for illustrative examples and the other for practical exercises for the reader. The book is structured in four parts, which can be flexibly combined to meet the needs of the syllabus. The first part provides the background to information systems analysis and design and to object-orientation. The second begins with two case study chapters, and focuses on the activities of requirements gathering and systems analysis, and the basic notation of the Unified Modelling Language (UML). The third part covers the activities of system design and UML notation for object design. The final part examines the later stages of the systems development lifecycle, reuse and software development methodologies.

Key features

Fully updated notation follows the very latest version of the UML standard and reflects the most up-to-date approaches to information systems development.

New focus on component-based development, Agile software development, eXtreme Programming, Model-Driven Architecture, and other recent advances in the software development process.

New chapter on System Architecture explains how information systems are designed to work together in complex modern enterprises.

All chapters have been revised and fully updated to reflect contemporary developments in the world of object-oriented analysis and design.

About the author

Simon Bennett is a Systems Architect in the Corporate IT department of Celesio AG. He was previously at Ericsson Intracom, and prior to that a Principal Lecturer in the department of Information Systems at De Montfort University. He is one of the authors of Schaum?s Outline of UML 2nd edition, published by McGraw-Hill. Simon Bennett (Leicester, UK) is an information systems consultant with Ericsson Intracom Ltd., UK, where he specializes in knowledge management for engineering and Intranet development.

Steve McRobb is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering at De Montfort University, Leicester. His main research interests are currently online privacy and the re-documentation of legacy systems in UML. He was previously Principal Administration Officer at the Yorkshire Dales National Park, responsible for the organisation?s IT strategy.

Ray Farmer is an Associate Dean in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing at Coventry University. His major research interests are in information systems analysis and design, and in particular, object technology. He has wide experience as a consultant on object-oriented analysis and design.

Table of contents

1. Information Systems: What Are They?
2. Problems in Information Systems Development
3. Avoiding the Problems
4. What is Object-Orientation?
Agate Limited Case Study (1)
Food Co Limited Case Study
5. Modelling Concepts
6. Requirements Capture
Agate Limited Case Study (2)
7. Requirements Modelling
Agate Limited Case Study (3)
8. Refining the Requirements Model
9. Object Interaction
10. Specifying Operations
11. Specifying Control
Agate Limited Case Study (4)
12. System Architecture
13. Systems Design
14. Detailed Design
15. Design Patterns
16. Human-Computer Interaction
17. Designing Boundary Classes
18. Data management design
Agate Limited Case Study (5)
19. Implementation
20. Reusable components
21. Software Development Process
Appendix A: Notation summaries
Appendix B: Selected Solutions and Answer Pointers
Glossary
Bibliography
Index