Seamless Object-Oriented Software Architecture - Analysis And Design of Reliable Systems

This book shows how a consistent set of object-oriented abstractions can be applied throughout the entire software construction process, based on three major ideas: seamlessness, reversibility, and contracting.

Seamlessness, as in the first word of the title, follows from the observation that the similarities between the tasks to be carried out at the various steps of a project far outweigh their inevitable differences, making it possible to obtain a continuous process that facilitates communication between the various actors involved, ensures a direct mapping between a problem and its software solution, and results in a high level of quality for the final product.

Reversibility means that the seamless procedure must work in both directions: if one modifies a system that has already reached the implementation phase - a frequent case in practice - it must be possible to reflect the modification back to the higher levels of design, specification, and analysis.

The contract model was introduced to a wider audience as early as 1988 by Bertrand Meyer in his introductory book Object-Oriented Software Construction (OOSC), which quickly became, and still is, the standard reference on basic object-oriented concepts. In a sense, this book is a continuation of OOSC, carrying some of its software engineering ideas to their logical conclusion in the area of analysis and design. The result is a method called BON (Business Object Notation) which contains a set of concepts and corresponding notations to support object-oriented modeling centered around the three principles of seamlessness, reversibility, and software contracting.

Intended Audience:

The book is intended for software professionals as well as for students at the graduate and undergraduate levels. This book can be read by anyone who has acquired a general understanding of the problems of software engineering, and who has some inclination for abstract thinking.

Author : Kim Waldén and Jean-Marc Nerson
Publication Date : September 1994
Publisher : Prentice Hall

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