Uml and the Unified Process and Uml: Practical Object-Oriented Analysis and Design - Softcover

Arlow, Jim; Neustadt, Ila

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201770601 ISBN 13: 9780201770605

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2001

Synopsis

An accessible, practical guide to essentials of both UML and the Unified Process, aimed at the OO designer or analyst. Gives the reader a quick, focused tour through the Object Oriented Analysis and Design process. Softcover.

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About the Author

Jim Arlow is a London-based independent consultant and trainer with over 10 years' experience designing and programming OO systems. He regularly devises and teaches courses on OOAD, Java Servlets and Server Pages, RMI, EJBs and JDBC to IT professionals.

Ila Neustadt has worked in IT for British Airways for over 17 years, on a wide range of projects including work in the strategy department developing architecture training and acting as programme head for the graduate Business Analyst scheme. 0201770601AB08132001

From the Back Cover

An accessible, practical guide to essentials of both UML and the Unified Process, aimed at the OO designer or analyst.

This book is based around the author's training courses and gives the reader a quick, focused tour through the Object Oriented Analysis and Design process. It introduces and explains the need-to-know concepts and key elements of both UML (Unified Modelling Language) and the Unified Process.

It will get the reader up to speed on successful techniques that he can immediately apply and use -- the emphasis is on tips and tricks that really are useful from the point of view of the OO analyst and designer.

The structure of the book aims to give the reader as clear and uncomplicated a guide as possible. It takes the reader through an introduction to UML, an introduction to the UP, then covers the basics of software Requirements and Use Case modelling. The key aspects of the analysis and design stages are covered in step-by-step detail, finishing off with implementation.

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This book provides an accurate, concise and practical guide to the processes and techniques of object oriented analysis and design using the Unified Modelling Language (UML) and the Unified Process (UP). The reader will learn to apply the relevant activities defined by the Unified Process, and learn how to use the UML to create effective and valuable OO models. As such, one could reasonably view this book as a presentation of the UDSP from the point of view of the OO analyst/designer.

UML and UP are still, by themselves, not enough. There are OO modelling techniques and processes that the modeller needs to have at his or her fingertips that are not described in the UP, and we'll try to present these where appropriate and show how they fit into the UP framework in a structured manner.

We attempt to be as accurate and rigorous in our use of UML as possible. This is important as many UML presentations are constrained by the limited features offered by specific CASE tools and so give a distorted and incomplete perspective on the rich and powerful UML syntax and semantics. We believe that creating a good OO model is a matter of both creativity and craftsmanship. A key aspect of craftsmanship is precision and this summarises our approach to UML modelling.

This book is biased towards the beginning of the software development lifecycle -- towards OO requirements engineering and analysis. This is because these are exactly the areas where the OO analyst/designer can add most value. As we will see, most projects that fail do so due to a failure in requirements or analysis, and so that it is the beginning of the software development lifecycle that is of paramount importance for success. OO requirements engineering and analysis tends to be of strategic importance, whilst OO design is in some sense more tactical in nature. As well, OO design is always predicated on a technical infrastructure and, as such, is hard to teach without the reader having some knowledge of the particular technical infrastructure chosen.

Although OO design may be harder to teach than OO analysis, it is often easier to do! This is because many OO analyst/designers come from a programming background, and are used to working at the lower level of abstraction required by design. Abstraction is the primary skill of the accomplished OO analyst/designer, and by focussing on requirements and analysis in this book, we aim to try to inculcate or enhance this skill in the reader.

Finally, we'd like to point out that there are no easy shortcuts to OO analysis/design nirvana. A book like this can certainly help. But one really only becomes good at OO analysis and design through direct experience and practical application. Some of us seem to naturally have an innate ability to work at high levels of abstraction, and therefore make good OO analysts. Others of us have the sort of attention to detail and craftsmanship to make excellent OO designers. However, for the rest of us, these are skills that can be learned. We hope that this book will help the reader in this learning process! 0201770601P08132001

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0201770601
• ISBN 13: 9780201770605
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 416