by Luiz Fernando Capretz (University of Western Ontario, Canada) & Miriam A M Capretz (University of Western Ontario, Canada)

This is a textbook for a course in object-oriented software engineering at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as for software engineers. It contains more than 120 exercises of diverse complexity.

The book discusses fundamental concepts and terminology on object-oriented software development, assuming little background on software engineering, and emphasizes design and maintenance rather than programming.

It also presents up-to-date and easily understood methodologies and puts forward a software life cycle model which explicitly encourages reusability during software development and maintenance.

• Object-Oriented Concepts:
  • Characterization of an Object-Oriented Model
  • Philosophy of Object-Oriented Design
• Object-Oriented Methodologies:
  • Classification of Methodologies
  • Survey of Existing Methodologies
• Object-Oriented Design:
  • The Context of MOOD
  • Steps for Object-Oriented Design
  • Suitability of MOOD
  • A CASE Environment for MOOD
• Reusability and Life Cycle Issues:
  • Reusability during Object-Oriented Design
  • Object-Oriented Software Life Cycle Model
• Software Maintenance Concepts:
  • Documentation for Software Maintenance
  • Software Configuration Management
• Software Maintenance Models:
  • Characteristics of Software Maintenance Modelling
• Maintenance of Legacy Systems:
  • SCM Discipline Applied to COMFORM
  • Version Control in COMFORM
• Object-Oriented Software Evolution:
  • Object-Orientation for Software Maintenance
  • On MOOD and COMFORM
  • and other papers