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Subject: Re: OOA and OOD summary/FAQs please appear!
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>I am reading the latest COAD/Yourdon books on OOA and OOD.
>
>I haven't seen any FAQs on the basics yet in this newsgroup for a while.
>
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>Could someone repost their OOA and OOD summaries please.
>
>A lot of analysists out there need to come up to play with these techniques.
>There are heaps of reading to do.
>
>Can a read of say Coad/Yourdon (2nd edition) cover most of the topic: i.e.,
>are the methodologies similar.
>
>Some references on methodology surveys I have are:
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>P Harmon (ed). Object-oriented Methodologies: Part 1 and 2. 1992.
>Object-oriented Strategies. Vol. II, No. 4. Cutter Information Corp. MA USA.
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>D de Champeau, P Faure. 1992. A Comparative Study of Object-oriented analysis
>methods. Journal of Object-oriented Programming. March/April 1992. Vol. 5 No.
>1. SIGS Publications Inc. NY. pp21-32.
>
>

The following is a posting I captured last year, by Edward Berard.
Perhaps it could be the start of a FAQ on OO References?

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        Readings In Object-Oriented Technology
              (Updated October 26, 1991)

            by Edward V. Berard
          Berard Software Engineering, Inc.

If you are interested in reading about any rapidly evolving technology,
it is best to keep the following in mind:

    - Read more than one source. Look for sources which have
      different, and possibly conflicting, views of the material. It
      is often difficult to determine fundamental facts when only one
      viewpoint is present.

    - Very often, authors confuse concepts with implementations.
      Ask yourself if the author is discussing a concept, or a
      particular implementation of the concept.

    - Always be on the lookout for new sources. In the software
        technology arena in particular, significant changes can
      take place in less than a month.

    - Take care to distinguish between differing viewpoints and
      conflicting viewpoints.

There are many topic areas in object-oriented software technology, and
literally thousands of books, articles, tutorials, and proceedings
devoted, in whole, or in part, to object-oriented software concepts.
What we will present here is some of the representative reading
material. Just because an item is included in this reading list does
not mean that it is recommended without qualifications, nor does it
mean that it is an authoritative source on a topic. However, the
material listed here is intended to help you understand more about the
technology.

            Object-Oriented Programming

Object-oriented programming books most often tend to focus on
programming language aspects of object-oriented technology. However,
many fundamental concepts can be found in the books mentioned below:

[Cox, 1986]. B.J. Cox, Object Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary
Approach, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1986.

[Goldberg and Robson, 1983]. A. Goldberg and D. Robson, Smalltalk-80:
The Language and Its Implementation, Addison-Wesley, Reading,
Massachusetts, 1983.

[Meyer, 1988]. B. Meyer, Object-Oriented Software Construction,
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988.

[Keene, 1989]. S.E.Keene, Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp,
Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1989.

[Stroustrup, 1991]. B. Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language, Second
Edition, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1991.

            Object-Oriented Requirements Analysis

There are a number of publicly available courses on object-oriented
requirements analysis. Since the technology is still new, these courses
present many differing viewpoints and approaches. There are, however, a
number of references on the topic:

[Anderson et al, 1989]. J.A. Anderson, J. McDonald, L. Holland, and E.
Scranage, "Automated Object-Oriented Requirements Analysis and Design,"
Proceedings of the Sixth Washington Ada Symposium, June 26-29, 1989,
pp. 265 - 272.

[Berard, 1990]. E.V. Berard, "Object-Oriented Requirements Analysis,"
Hotline On Object-Oriented Technology, Vol. 1, No. 8, June 1990, pp.9 -
11.

[Coad and Yourdon, 1990]. P. Coad and E. Yourdon, OOA -- Object-Oriented
Analysis, 2nd Edition, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey,
1990.

[Shlaer and Mellor, 1988]. S. Shlaer and S.J. Mellor, Object-Oriented
Systems Analysis: Modeling the World In Data, Yourdon Press:
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988.

[Stoecklin et al, 1988]. S.E. Stoecklin, E.J. Adams, and S.Smith,
"Object-Oriented Analysis," Proceedings of the Fifth Washington Ada
Symposium, June 27 - 30, 1988, Association for Computing Machinery, New
York, New York, 1988, pp. 133 - 138.

            Object-Oriented Design/Development

Most of the work which has been done in the area of object-oriented
life-cycle issues, outside of object-oriented programming, has been
accomplished within the Ada community. Some representative sources on
OOD are:

[Abbott, 1983]. R.J. Abbott, "Program Design by Informal English
Descriptions," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 26, No. 11, November
1983, pp. 882 - 894.

[Birchenough and Cameron, 1989]. A. Birchenough and J.R. Cameron, "JSD
and Object-Oriented Design," JSP & JSD: The Jackson Approach to
Software Development, IEEE Computer Society Press, Washington, D.C.,
1989.

[Booch, 1982]. G. Booch, "Object Oriented Design," Ada Letters, Vol. I,
No. 3, March- April 1982, pp. 64 - 76.

[Booch, 1986]. G. Booch, "Object Oriented Development," IEEE
Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. SE-12, No. 2, February 1986,
pp. 211 - 221.

[Booch, 1990]. G. Booch, "On the Concepts of Object-Oriented Design," in
Modern Software Engineering: Foundations and Current Perspectives, P.A.
Ng and R.T. Yeh, Editors, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, New York,
1990, pp. 165 - 204.

[Booch, 1991]. G. Booch, Object-Oriented Design With Applications,
Benjamin/Cummings, Redwood City, California, 1991.

[Heitz, 1988]. M. Heitz, "HOOD: A Hierarchical Object-Oriented Design
Method," Proceedings of the Third German Ada Users Congress, January
1988, Gesellschaft fur Software Engineering, Munich, West Germany, pp.
12-1 - 12-9.

[Hruschka, 1990]. P. "Towards An Object-Oriented Method for System
Architecture Design," Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE International
Conference on Computer Systems and Software Engineering -- EuroComp
'90, Tel-Aviv, Israel, May 8 - 10, 1990, pp. 12 - 17.

[McQuown, 1989]. K. McQuown, "Object-Oriented Design in a Real-Time
Multiprocessor Environment," Proceedings of TRI-Ada '89 -- Ada
Technology In Context: Application, Development, and Deployment,
October 23-26, 1989, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, New
York, pp. 570 - 588.

[Rumbaugh et al, 1991]. J. Rumbaugh, M. Blaha, W. Premerlani, F. Eddy,
and W. Lorensen, Object-Oriented Modeling and Design, Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991.

[Stark and Seidewitz, 1987]. M. Stark and E.V. Seidewitz, "Towards a
General Object-Oriented Ada Life-Cycle," Proceedings of the Joint Ada
Conference, Fifth National Conference on Ada Technology and Washington
Ada Symposium, U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, Fort
Monmouth, New Jersey, pp. 213 - 222.

[Wasserman et al, 1990]. A.I. Wasserman, P. Pircher, and R.J. Muller,
"An Object-Oriented Design Notation for Software Design
Representation," IEEE Computer, Vol. 23, No. 3, March 1990, pp. 50 -
63.

[Wirfs-Brock et al, 1990]. R. Wirfs-Brock, B. Wilkerson, and L. Wiener,
Designing Object-Oriented Software, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs,
New Jersey, 1990.

In addition to the above references, the September 1990 issue of the
Communications of the ACM (Vol. 33, No. 9) contains quite a few
articles on object-oriented design approaches.

            Object-Oriented Databases

Object-oriented databases are not the same thing as relational
databases. In effect, object-oriented database technology today is at
the same point relational database technology was in the early 1980s.
(I know more than a few vendors who would disagree with this point.)
Some representative information on the subject can be found in:

[Ahmed et al, 1991]. S. Ahmed, A. Wong, D. Sriam, and R. Logcher, A
Comparison of Object-Oriented Database Management Systems for
Engineering Applications, Research Report No. R91-12, Order Number
IESL90-03, 91-03, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of
Civil Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 1991.

[Atkinson et al, 1989]. M. Atkinson, F. Bancilhon, D. DeWitt, K.
Dittrich, D. Maier, and S. Zdonik, "The Object-Oriented Database System
Manifesto," (Invited Paper), Proceedings of the First International
Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, Kyoto, Japan,
December 4-6, 1989, pp. 40 - 57.

[Bertino and Martino, 1991]. E. Bertino and L. Martino, "Object-Oriented
Database Management Systems: Concepts and Issues," IEEE Computer, Vol.
24, No. 4, April 1991, pp. 33 - 47.

[Brown, 1991]. A. Brown, Object-Oriented Databases: Applications in
Software Engineering, McGraw-Hill, New York, New York, 1991.

[Bochenski, 1988]. B.A. Bochenski, "On Object-Oriented Programming,
Databases," Software, Vol. 8, No. 11, September 1988, page 42.

[Cardenas and McLeod, 1990]. A. Cardenas and D. McLeod, Editors,
Research Foundations in Object-Oriented Database Systems,
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990.

[Dearle et al, 1991]. A. Dearle, G.M. Shaw, and S.B. Zdonik,
Implementing Persistent Object Bases, Principles and Practices: The
Fourth International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems, Morgan
Kaufman Publishers, Inc., San Mateo, California, 1991.

[Dittrich, 1989]. K. Dittrich, Editor, Advances in Object-Oriented
Database Systems, Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, 1989.

[Dittrich and Dayal, 1986]. K. Dittrich and U. Dayal, Editors,
Proceedings of the 1986 International Workshop on Object-Oriented
Database Systems, IEEE Catalog Number 86TH0161-0, IEEE Computer Society
Press, Washington, D.C., 1986.

[Dittrich et al, 1991]. K.R. Dittrich, U. Dayal, and A.P. Buchmann,
Editors, On Object-Oriented Database Systems, Springer-Verlag, New
York, New York, 1991.

[Gupta and Horowitz, 1991]. R. Gupta and E. Horowitz, Editors,
Object-Oriented Databases With Applications to CASE, Networks, and VLSI
CAD, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991.J

[Hughes, 1991]. J.G. Hughes, Object-Oriented Databases, Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991.

[Kim, 1990]. W. Kim, Introduction to Object-Oriented Databases, The MIT
Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990.

[Kim et al, 1990]. W. Kim, J.-M. Nicolas, and S. Nishio, Editors,
Deductive and Object-Oriented Database: Proceedings of the First
International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases
(DOOD 89) Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan, 4-6 December, 1989,
North-Holland (Elsevier), New York, New York, 1990.

[Nahoruaii and Petry, 1991]. E. Nahouraii and F. Petry, Editors, IEEE
Tutorial on Object-Oriented Databases, IEEE Catalog Number EH0332-7,
IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California, 1991.

[Zdonik and Maier, 1990]. S.B. Zdonik and D. Maier, Editors, Readings
in Object-Oriented Database Systems, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc.
San Mateo, California, 1990.

In addition to the above references, the November 1991 issue of the
Communications of the ACM (Vol. 34, No. 11) contains quite a few
articles on object-oriented databases.

            Object-Oriented Computer Hardware

Even computer hardware can be constructed in an object-oriented manner.
Here are three references:

[Myers, 1982]. G.J. Myers, Advances in Computer Architecture, Second
Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, New York, 1982.

[Organick, 1983]. E. Organick, A Programmer's View of the Intel 432
System, McGraw-Hill, New York, New York,1983.

[Pountain, 1988]. D. Pountain, "Rekursiv: An Object-Oriented CPU," Byte,
Vol. 13, No. 11, November 1988, pp. 341 - 349.

            Object-Oriented Metrics

As organizations begin shifting to object-oriented approaches, they find
that some of the ways in which they used to measure things are less
appropriate. People have already begun asking about object-oriented
metrics. Although most work in this area is relatively new, there are a
growing number of references, including:

[Duhl and Damon, 1988]. J. Duhl and C. Damon, "A Performance Comparison
of Object and Relational Databases Using the Sun Benchmark," OOPSLA '88
Conference Proceedings, Special Issue of SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 23, No.
11, November 1988, pp. 153 - 163.

[Hufnagel and Brown, 1989]. S.P. Hufnagel and J.C. Brown, "Performance
Properties of Vertically Partitioned Object-Oriented Systems," IEEE
Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 8, August 1989, pp.
935 - 946.

[Liberherr and Holland, 1989]. K.J. Liberherr and I.M. Holland,
"Assuring Good Style for Object-Oriented Programs," IEEE Software, Vol.
6, No. 5, September 1989, pp. 38 - 48.

[Liberherr and Riel, 1988]. K.J. Liberherr and A.J. Riel, "Demeter: a
CASE Study of Software Growth Through Parameterized Classes," Journal
of Object-Oriented Programming, Vol. 1, No. 3, August/September 1988,
pp. 8 - 22.

            General Object-Oriented Technology References

There are a number of general references on object-oriented technology,
including:

[ACM, 1986a]. Association for Computing Machinery, Special Issue of
SIGPLAN Notices on the Object-Oriented Programming Workshop, Vol. 21,
No. 10, October 1986.

[ACM, 1986b]. Association for Computing Machinery, OOPSLA '86 Conference
Proceedings, Special Issue of SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 21, No. 11,
November 1986.

[ACM, 1987]. Association for Computing Machinery, OOPSLA '87 Conference
Proceedings, Special Issue of SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 22, No. 12,
December 1987.

[ACM, 1988a]. Association for Computing Machinery, OOPSLA '87 Addendum
to the Proceedings, Special Issue of SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 23, No. 5,
May 1988.

[ACM, 1988b]. Association for Computing Machinery, OOPSLA '88 Conference
Proceedings, Special Issue of SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 23, No. 11,
November 1988.

[ACM, 1989]. Association for Computing Machinery, OOPSLA '89 Conference
Proceedings, Special Issue of SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 24, No. 10, October
1989.

[ACM, 1990]. Association for Computing Machinery, OOPSLA/ECOOP '90
Conference Proceedings, Special Issue of SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 25, No.
10, October 1990.

[ACM, 1991]. Association for Computing Machinery, OOPSLA/ECOOP '91
Conference Proceedings, Special Issue of SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 26, No.
11, November 1991.

[Bezivin and Meyer, 1991]. J. Bezivin and B. Meyer, Editors, Technology
of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems: Tools 4, Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991.

[Bezivin et al, 1987]. J. Bezivin, J.-M. Hullot, P. Cointe, and H.
Lieberman, ECOOP '87: Proceedings of the European Conference on
Object-Oriented Programming, Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Volume
276, Springer Verlag, New York, New York, 1987.

[Blair et al, 1991]. G. Blair, J. Gallagher, D. Hutchison, and D.
Sheperd, Object-Oriented Languages, Systems and Applications, Halsted
Press, New York, New York, 1991.

[Bozman, 1990a]. J.S. Bozman, "Firms Move Into the OOP Lane,"
ComputerWorld, Vol. XXIV, No. 30, July 23, 1990, pp. 23 and 31.

[Bozman, 1990b]. J.S. Bozman, "They're Still Saying OOPs,"
ComputerWorld, Vol. XXIV, No. 34, August 20, 1990, pp. 29 and 34.

[Cook, 1989]. S. Cook, ECOOP '89: Proceedings of the European Conference
on Object-Oriented Programming, British Computer Society Workshop
Series, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1989.

[Gjessing and Nygaard, 1988]. S. Gjessing and K. Nygaard, ECOOP '88:
Proceedings of the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming,
Lecture Note on Computer Science, Volume 322, Springer Verlag, New
York, New York, 1988.

[Khoshafian and Abnous, 1990]. S. Khoshafian and R. Abnous, Object
Orientation: Concepts, Languages, Databases, User Interfaces, John
Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, New York, 1990.

[Kim and Lochovsky, 1989]. W. Kim and F. Lochovsky, Object-Oriented
Concepts, Databases, and Applications, ACM Press/Addison Wesley,
Reading, Massachusetts, 1989.

[Korson, et al, 1991]. T. Korson, V. Vaishnavi, and B. Meyer, Editors,
Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems: Tools 5,
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991.

[Millikin, 1989]. M.D. Millikin, "Object Orientation: What It Can Do For
You," ComputerWorld, Vol. 23, No. 11. March 13, 1989, pp. 103 - 113.

[Peterson, 1987a]. G.E. Peterson, Tutorial: Object-Oriented Computing,
Volume 1: Concepts, IEEE Catalog Number EH0257-6, IEEE Computer Society
Press, Washington, D.C., 1987.

[Peterson, 1987b]. G.E. Peterson, Tutorial: Object-Oriented Computing,
Volume 2: Implementations, IEEE Catalog Number EH0257-6, IEEE Computer
Society Press, Washington, D.C., 1987.

[Salmons and Babitsky, 1990]. J.F. Salmons and T.T. Babitsky, Editors,
1990 International OOP Directory, COOT, Inc., New York, New York, 1990.

[Shriver and Wegner, 1987]. B. Shriver and P. Wegner, Editors, Research
Directions in Object-Oriented Programming, The MIT Press, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1987.

[Winblad et al, 1990]. A.L. Winblad, S.D. Edwards, and D.R. King,
Object-Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading,
Massachusetts, 1990.


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-- Regards ----- Jim Kummer ----- Martin Marietta Corporation --
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