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Practical Object-Oriented Design by Mark Priestley Recommended

ISBN: 0 07 709176       Publisher: McGraw-Hill       Pages: 333pp       Price: £24-99

Categories:   object oriented

Reviewed by Silvia de Beer in Overload OL35 (Jan 2000)

The book starts with the basic notation of object diagrams, class diagrams, object interaction diagrams and statecharts. The book continues with a case study of designing a diagram editor. The requirements are analysed using use cases, the design is done using an iterative approach and the implementation in C++ is given. The iterative approach means that the initial models are explained and changed and reviewed during the design process.

After this first introduction, a chapter covering the more advanced data modelling techniques follows and continues with two additional case studies. The book finishes with implementation strategies, for example how to implement associations in C++ and refers to general OO principles and design patterns.

Although this book is published in 1996 and is based on the OMT notation, it is still a very good introduction. However, to get a more complete view of the whole software development process, further reading is required.