Object Life Cycles: Modeling the World In States
0136299407

Stephen J. Mellor, Project Technology, Inc.
Sally Shlaer, Project Technology, Inc.

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 1992
Format: Paper; 251 pp

ISBN-10: 0136299407
ISBN-13:9780136299400

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Description

Complements to and extension of the author's Object-Oriented Systems Analysis: Modeling The World In Data. It will deal with state and process models and with external specifications. Its focus will be on the Information Modeling step of object-oriented analysis. It will deal with these fundamental models: 1. Information Model 2. State Model 3. Process Model.

Table Of Contents


 1. The World of Systems Analysis.


 2. The Object-Oriented World.


 3. A Review of Information Modeling.


 4. Object Lifecycles.


 5. Coordinated Lifecycles.


 6. Object Processes.


 7. Managing the Work.


 8. External Specification.


 9. Work Products of Object-Oriented Analysis.


10. Using Object-Oriented Analysis with 2167A.
Features
  • uses an abundance of illustrations tightly integrated with text in an almost “picturebook” style.
  • reviews Information Models — which identify the conceptual entities of the problem and formalize them in objects and attributes.
  • explores State Models — which formalize the messages that are to be passed between objects and specify the data content of those messages.
  • outlines Process Models — which result in the specification of the operations or methods needed for the objects.
  • considers External Specification — the identification of the information and processes that will be contained in the automated system and what processes will be implemented by operators, special circuitry, and similar external mechanisms.