Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML&emdash;Theory and Practice shows how to drive an object-oriented software design from use case all the way through coding and testing, based on the minimalist, UML-based ICONIX process. In addition to a comprehensive explanation of the foundations of the approach, the book makes extensive use of examples and provides exercises at the back of each chapter.
This book leads by example. It demonstrates common analysis and design errors, shows how to detect and fix them, and suggests how to avoid making the same errors in the future. The book also encourages you to examine its UML examples and to search for specific errors. You'll get clues, then later receive the answers during "review sessions" toward the end of the book.
About the AuthorDoug Rosenberg of ICONIX Software Engineering, Inc., has been providing system development tools and training for nearly two decades, with particular emphasis on object-oriented methods. He developed a Unified Booch/Rumbaugh/Jacobson design method in 1993 that preceded Rational's UML by several years. He has produced more than a dozen multimedia tutorials on object technology, including
Comprehensive COM and
Complete CORBA, and is the author of
Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: A Practical Approach and
Applying Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: An Annotated e-Commerce Example.
Matt Stephens is a Java developer, project leader, and technical architect based in Central London. He's been developing software commercially for over 15 years, and has led many agile projects through successive customer releases. He has spoken at a number of software conferences on OO development topics, and his work appears regularly in a variety of software journals. Matt is the coauthor of Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP (Apress, 2003) with Doug Rosenberg, and Agile Development with ICONIX Process (Apress, 2005) with Doug Rosenberg and Mark Collins-Cope. Catch Matt online at www.softwarereality.com.